Conference Speakers

Mitchell Cohen is Professor and Associate Vice Chair of Surgery at the University of Colorado. Clinically he is an active Trauma, General and Acute Care Surgeon as well as a busy Intensivist. Dr. Cohen has an active NIH, DoD, BARDA and DARPA funded basic and translational science research group, which studies coagulation and inflammation perturbations after injury. Specifically, his lab continues to examine the mechanisms of traumatic coagulopathy and mediators of protein C system activation after trauma. In addition to its basic science focus the Cohen research group transnationally studies similar topics through multiple clinical characterization and interventional trials aimed at elucidating the post trauma coagulation milieu and optimal resuscitation and treatment. Finally, the Cohen group has an active interest in in silico data and model driven approaches to modeling of biological and physiologic systems. In keeping with this his group has done extensive work on the use of Big Data, machine learning and artificial intelligence towards improving personalized medicine and outcomes. His work includes multi scale modeling projects ranging from coagulation and endothelial biology to causal inference prediction of patient physiologic state and trajectory. Taken together this work seeks to understand the biological and physiological phenotypic milieu after any threat or injury towards the goal of identifying patient phenotypes and trajectories and providing real time dynamic individualized medical countermeasures. Separately his group works actively on surgical performance and wellness. He has over 300 publications. His best job however is as Dad to Ava (17) and husband to Stephanie.