Prof. Steven Cohen Northwestern University, USA

Dr. Cohen has been active in teaching and pain research for over 20 years, having published over 500 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, with over 45,000 citations and an H-index >90. He holds an Endowed Chair position at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and is Vice Chair of Pain... read moreMedicine, with joint appointments at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Walter Reed.

Among his major contributions are the development of an FDA-approved denervation technique for treating sacroiliac joint pain (radiofrequency ablation), helping set up and gather data on the first pain clinic in a war zone, inventing the IV ketamine test, performing the first studies evaluating the epidural and perineural administration of biological agents for pain, serving as the Senior Investigator on the Congressionally-mandated study evaluating compounded topical creams for chronic pain, serving as Committee Chair for the national ketamine guidelines for pain management, serving as Committee Chair for 3 international consortiums establishing guidelines for sacroiliac joint pain and lumbar and cervical facet blocks and radiofrequency ablation, serving as Committee Chair for multispecialty guidelines on pain management during COVID-19, and co-chairing DoD-sponsored guidelines on neuromodulation in active-duty Service Members.

His research has been featured in newspapers in many languages throughout the world, and he has been the first author on the “Pain” chapter in the last 5 editions of “Cecil Textbook of Medicine”, and the senior author on the “Back pain” chapters in “Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine” and “UpToDate”. He is currently President of ASRA-Pain Medicine, the largest pain organization in North America.