About Misha Ruth Cohen, OMD, L.Ac.
Misha Cohen, a Doctor of Oriental Medicine and Licensed Acupuncturist, is the Clinical Director of Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine, Executive Director of the MRCE Foundation, and Research Specialist of Integrative Medicine at the University of California Institute for Health and Aging, all in San Francisco. She is also an elected Fellow to the National Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. She has been practicing traditional Asian medicine for the past 38 years.
Education & Training
After attending Oberlin College, Misha Cohen, OMD, L.Ac., was trained in acupuncture at Lincoln Hospital’s Detox Program in the South Bronx under the auspices of the Quebec School of Acupuncture. After moving to California, she continued her studies in Chinese traditional medicine, acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine at the San Francisco College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. She received her doctorate in gynecology from SFCAOM in 1987.
The National Commission for the Certification of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine certifies her nationally in acupuncture and herbal medicine. For more than twenty-five years, she has developed treatment protocols for people with HIV/AIDS. She was a member of the Ad Hoc Subpanel on Alternative and Complementary Therapy Research of the NIH Office of AIDS Research and in 1996 was selected by POZ Magazine as one of 50 top AIDS researchers.
MRCE Foundation
The Misha Ruth Cohen, OMD, L.Ac., Education Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing resources and education to medical professionals, patients, and the community.
Teaching
Dr. Cohen, OMD, L.Ac., is recognized internationally as a senior teacher and leading expert in Chinese traditional medicine. She was invited several times by the Chinese government to present her programs, and her articles on HIV/AIDS were officially translated for use in China.
She has trained Chinese medicine practitioners, including medical doctors, in Europe and the US in gynecology, HIV, hepatitis, and other subjects. She regularly attends and presents at international AIDS, hepatitis and cancer symposiums, as well as many Chinese medicine and lay conferences.
Writing
Dr. Cohen, OMD, L.Ac., has written numerous articles, appeared on national radio and TV, and has published several books.
She is the author of The Chinese Way to Healing: Many Paths to Wholeness (Putnam Perigee 1996, iUniverse, 2006), The HIV Wellness Sourcebook: An East/West Guide to Living Well with HIV/AIDS and Related Conditions (Henry Holt, 1998), and The Hepatitis C Help Book (St. Martin’s Press, 2000, 2001 and 2007). She has published widely in both lay magazines and professional journals in the areas of women’s health, gynecology, cancer support, HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, as wells a Chinese medicine and herbal research methodology.
She is the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Editor for NUMEDX Magazine (numedx.com) and is a featured as a columnist in Hepatitis Magazine Liver Health Today (Ask Doc Misha). She is also featured on Doc Misha’s Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine Web site.
Research
In Dr. Cohen’s, OMD, L.Ac., years with Quan Yin Healing Arts Center, she has conducted herbal and acupuncture research. Her collaboration with Western physicians at San Francisco General Hospital in a double-blind placebo pilot clinical trial using Chinese herbal medicine for HIV+ persons led to the first peer-reviewed published study of Chinese herbal medicine for HIV (JAIDS, 1996). Misha, OMD, L.Ac. was a co-investigator in five additional completed university studies: a peer-reviewed published study of herbal medicine for HIV-related symptoms at the Zürich University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland (JAIDS, 1999) and was co-investigator with Dr. Donald Abrams of the UCSF AIDS Community Consortium in two studies related to HIV chronic diarrhea (peer-reviewed and published in Integrative Medicine, 1999) and mild to moderate anemia collaborated with Dr. Sue Dibble in an controlled acupressure study for nausea in breast cancer related chemotherapy and was the co-investigator with Dr. Naomi Jay in a pilot study of prevention of anal cancer using Chinese herbs. Dr. Cohen also was principal investigator in a Quan Yin study of the use of acupuncture in co-infection with HIV/hepatitis viruses.
Dr. Cohen, OMD, L.Ac., was the co-investigator at UCSF for a in-vitro study of mechanisms for a Chinese herbal formula widely used for in endometriosis and dysmenorrhea. She is currently the leading investigator on a University of California research team for a Phase II study of a topical herbal cream in treatment of HPV-related anal neoplasia to prevent anal cancer. She is a leading investigator on an herbal and acupuncture research team with MDs at California Pacific Medical Center in complementary treatment for people with hepatitis C.
Contact
Seminars/writing:
(415) 864-7234
TCMeducation@gmail.com
Clinic:
(415) 861-1101
chickensoupchinesemedicine@docmisha.com
Connect with Misha on LinkedIn
LinkedIn Profile
Treatments
Dr. Cohen, OMD, L.Ac., has created Chinese traditional medicine treatment protocols for PMS, infertility, hepatitis, HIV, endometriosis, HPV-related diseases and menopausal syndromes that are used at Quan Yin Healing Arts Center and Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine. She has also developed herbal formulas for HIV, Hepatitis C, chronic viral illness, cancer support, fibromyalgia, and the common cold.