Alan R. Cohen

Alan R. Cohen, MD, graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He obtained his medical degree from Cornell Medical College and currently serves as chief of pediatric neurosurgery and professor of neurosurgery, oncology and pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Previously, he was neurosurgeon-in-chief and chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Franc D. Ingraham professor of neurological surgery at Harvard Medical School.

He was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, gave the Great Teachers Lecture on “The Art of Neurosurgery” at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and served as honored guest at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons.

His bibliography includes over 260 journals, chapters, book publications, and over 350 national and international presentations.

His non-medical interests include music and sleight of hand. In 1974, he enjoyed an apprenticeship with The Great Slydini in New York City.