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Michael H. Cohen Michael H. Cohen (born: January 29, 1962), is a lawyer and writer, and President of the Michael H. Cohen Law Group, a law firm based in Los Angeles, California. Cohen is a leading expert in the health law, especially in legal and regulatory issues governingaesthetic medicine, cosmetics, complementary and alternative medicine (“CAM”), dietary supplements, holistic health, functional medicine, integrative medicine, medical devices, mind-body medicine, telemedicine and online health (e-health), and the confluence of biotechnology and emerging therapies.Cohen has a reputation as a visionary thinker. One medical ethicist proclaimed:“Cohen does for medicine what Kuhn did for science in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.” Not only has Cohen published a series ofground-breaking books with major university presses, he also held the unusual distinction as a non-MD, full-time faculty member ofHarvard Medical School, first as a Lecturer and then as an Assistant Professor of Medicine, with a joint faculty appointment at the Harvard School of Public Health and a Fellowship at the Harvard Divinity School.

Contents 1 Early history and personal life 2 Career history 3 Works 4 References 5Notes 5External Links

Early history and personal life Michael Howard Cohen was born in 1962, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to investment banker and corporate financier Perry M. Cohen, and his wife Dr. Margo P. Cohen, an endocrinologist and founder of Exocell, Inc. and Glycadia Pharmaceuticals, twoPhiladelphia-based biopharmaceutical and life sciences companies that develop therapeutics for the prevention and treatment of diabetic complications. He is the eldest of three brothers. Cohen was raised in Ann Arbor and West Bloomfield, Michigan. He attended Hillel Day School through seventh grade, and then North Farmington Junior High School before graduating from Andover High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Cohen also studied Talmud at United Hebrew High School in Southfield, Michigan, and was active in United Synagogue Youth through his teenage years.

Following high school, he graduated from Columbia University in threeandahalf years in 1983 with a political science concentration, studying at Columbia College and the School of International and Public Affairswith renowned political scientistsRoger Hilsman, Zalmay Khalilzad, and Marshall D. Shulman. Cohen also studied at the Jewish Theological Seminaryof Americawith Yochanan Muffs.

During college, Cohen was alegal assistant at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and a legislative aide to Henry J. Stern. He also worked briefly at Fortunoff. After graduating from Columbia, he joined the Municipal Assistance Corporation as Assistant Investment Officer. Subsequently, Cohen began study at the Boston University School of Law, where he was honored as a G. Joseph Tauro Distinguished Scholar and invited tothe Boston University Law Review.After his first year of law school, Cohen transferred to theUniversity of California School of Law (formerly Boalt Hall), where he made law review again, served as Book Review Editor for the California Law Review, published his first academic piece (on good faith law), and received his JD in 1986. Cohen also earned his MBA from theHaas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley in 1988.

Cohen studied at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa with noted poet Marvin Bell and fiction writers Frank Conroy, T. Coraghessan Boyle, James Alan McPherson, James Salter, and Meg Wolitzer, and graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing in 1990.

While still working as a Wall Street corporate lawyer, Cohen completed a program at the New Seminary for Interfaith Studies  in New York City with Hungarian Hasidic Rabbi Joseph H. Gelberman, a pioneer of the interfaith movement. Cohen received ordination as an interfaith minister in 1992, and studied a variety of therapeutic modalities, including ashtanga vinyasa yoga with K. Pattabhi Jois in Mysore, India; Breema; Ericksonian hypnotherapy; Gudjieff work; neurolinguistic programming; transcendental meditation; and Healing Touch, Reiki, and other forms of energy healing (including four years of study with Barbara Brennan).

One of the turning points in Cohen’s career and life was a humanitarian mission to Belarus in 1992. Cohen traveled to a small village outside of Minsk to work with a team of physicians and hands-on healers, treating children who had been exposed to radiation during the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Career history Coming out of law school, Cohen clerked for Judge Thomas T. Griesa in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. After his clerkship, he was anassociate in the New York City office of Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he focused on securities law, mergers & acquisitions, and corporate law issues. Cohen also had his first book published, Creative Writing for Lawyers(New York, Citadel Press, 1990).

After his Wall Street, corporate law practice, Cohen became a faculty member at several law schools (including Brooklyn Law School). He published extensively and taught courses in Constitutional law, civil procedure, conflict of laws, criminal law, healthcare law, insurance law, legal writing, and moot court. Cohen was chosen to participate in the Medical Institute for Law Faculty, held at the Cleveland Clinic, an experience that shaped his views on the importance of a ‘high-tech, high-touch’ approach to healthcare.

Following his academic legal career, Cohen was appointed to the faculty of Harvard Medical School, first as Lecturer in Medicine and then as Assistant Professor of Medicine, and thento the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health and Management. He was also Director of Legal Programs, first at the Center for Alternative Medicine Research andEducation, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and then at the Harvard Medical SchoolOsher Institute and Harvard Medical School Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies.

At Harvard, Cohenlectured on and taught courses in healthcare law and health policy, including a course on complementary and alternative medicine law and policy which he pioneered. He was also a 40th Anniversary Senior Scholar at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. In addition to his teaching experience in the United States, Cohen taught English lawin the LLB program of the University of the West Indies at the College of the Bahamas in Nassau, Bahamas.

Cohen became a member of the Bar in California, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington, D.C., and when he passed the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test in 2006, he qualified as a Solicitorof the Supreme Court of England & Wales. He currently practices corporate and healthcare law in Los Angeles, California, as President of the Michael H. Cohen Law Group.

As a lawyer, Cohen’s client representation reflects his interest in the intersection of law, medicine, spirituality, and business. Cohen publishes a blog on healthcare legal issues,  which highlights his keen interest in health regulatory affairs, including regulation of aesthetic medicine, cosmetics, dietary supplements and medical devices by the Food and Drug Administration; legal issues affecting medically-oriented day spas;laws targeting healthcare fraud; and regulation of telemedicine,online health (e-health), and new biotechnology.Cohen also has written a series of articles for Yoga Journal on business and legal issues in the yoga therapy community.Having spoken to such diverse audiences as the Royal College of Physicians andHarvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation, Cohen is a frequent speaker at conferences, symposia and events on legal and regulatory issues at the forefront of health law.

As an author, Cohen developed a body of work that laid a foundation for the inclusion of evidence-based, complementary therapies into mainstream healthcare. Cohen’s first book on healthcare law and policy, Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Legal Boundaries and Regulatory Perspectives, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1998. A pioneering work, this is a sweeping analysis of everything from government regulation of alternative medicine, to practice issues such as informed consent and malpractice, to professional issues such as physician licensing and discipline. Cohen’s next book,Beyond Complementary Medicine: Legal and Ethical Perspectives on Health Care and Human Evolution, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2000. In this book, Cohen delves even deeper into the legal, ethical, and regulatory issues involved in integrating complementary and alternative care. He addresses acupuncture, chiropractic, herbal medicine and nutrition, massage therapy, naturopathic medicine, and other modalities, and canvasses relevant legal, regulatory, and bioethical considerations.

Several more influential books followed. Future Medicine: Ethical Dilemmas, Regulatory Challenges, and Therapeutic Pathways to Health and Healing in Human Transformation (University of Michigan Press, 2002) explores the clinical, legal, ethical, and regulatory changes resulting from integrative medicine, and pushes the boundaries of diverse disciplines as transpersonal psychology, political philosophy, and bioethics by exploring a series of regulatory condundrums.Healing at the Borderline of Medicine and Religion was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2006. In this book, Cohen focuses on social, intellectual, and spiritual dimensions of healthcare, providing a multidisciplinary prognostication of the shift to the pluralistic healthcare environment of the future. Finally, Cohen was lead author of The Practice of Integrative Medicine: A Legal and Operational Guide, published by Springer (also in 2006). This book features interviews with more than twenty leading healthcare centers (both at academic medical centers and in non-academically affiliated hospitals) and how they craftedappropriate policies and procedure for integrative care.

In addition to his published books, Cohen has authored or co-authored more than one hundred articles and book chapters. His articles have appeared in publications ranging from law reviews, to the Journal of Law & Religion, to peer-reviewed medical journals such as the Annals of Internal Medicine, Archives of Internal Medicine, Journal of Medical Ethics, Medical Journal of Australia, and Pediatrics.Chapter contributions to medical and legal books include John E.Mack: A Tribute, a forward to Passport to the Cosmos (Largo: Kunati, Inc., 1999) and homage to Pulitzer-winning, Harvard-psychiatrist John Edward Mack,who Cohen met at Harvard and with whom he felt “a shared bond, a passion for truth.” Cohen also published chapters in Pediatric Clinics of North America, Bioethics for Clinicians(Cambridge University Press), Integrative Oncology: Principles and Practice (Taylor and Francis), Religion and Psychology (Nova Science Publishers),and in many other books on medicine, law, and other disciplines.

Healthlaw scholar Lawrence O. Gostinwritesof Cohen’s work: “Michael Cohen eloquently explores pathways to healing—a universal human desire.”

Cohen’s scholarly work was fueled in part by grants he garnered or in which he participated as co-investigator. Among these, Cohen was Principal Investigatorin a grant from the United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.

Cohen has contributed to public policy discussion of healthcare regulation, including at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (which features Cohen’s work on its webpage on credentialing complementary and alternative medicine providers) and in testimony to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. In addition, as the preeminent legal scholar in integrative medicine, Cohen served as the Consultant for the influential consensus study by the Institute of Medicine entitled, Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) by the American Public. Cohen’s work also has influenced regulation and policy outside the U.S., including the United Arab Emirates (where he consulted with Partners Harvard Medical International on a project in Dubai Healthcare City, the large health care and education free zone development supported by the Government of Dubai); Canada, where he worked on a grant funded by the SickKids Foundation at the Hospital for Sick Childrenon pediatric legal issues); and Germany, where he was involved in a North Rhine-Westphalia government grant to report on regulation of traditional Chinese herbal medicine.

Works

Michael H. Cohen’s published books include:

•	Creative Writing for Lawyers (New York, Citadel Press, 1990) •	Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Legal Boundaries and Regulatory Perspectives (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998) •	Beyond Complementary Medicine: Legal and Ethical Perspectives on Health Care and Human Evolution (University of Michigan Press, 2000) •	Future Medicine: Ethical Dilemmas, Regulatory Challenges, and Therapeutic Pathways to Health and Healing in Human Transformation(University of Michigan Press, 2002). •	Legal Issues in Alternative Medicine: A Guide for Clinicians, Hospitals and Patients (NAF Press, 2003). •	The Practice of Integrative Medicine: A Legal and Operational Guide(New York: Springer, 2006) (with Mary Ruggie & Marc Micozzi). •	Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion (University of North Carolina Press, 2006; republished in Hyderabad, India by Orient Longman Private Limited, 2007).

Some of his most referenced articles include: •	A Fixed Star in Health Care Reform: The Emerging Paradigm of Holistic Healing, 27 Ariz. State L. J 79 (1995) •	Toward a Bioethics of Compassion, 28 Ind. L. Rev. 667 (1995) •	Legal Issues in Complementary and Integrative Medicine. A Guide for the Clinician, Med Clin North Am. 2002 Jan;86(1):185-96 •	Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies, The FDA, and The NIH: Definitions and Regulation, 16(2) Derm. Ther. 77-84 (2003) •	Negotiating Integrative Medicine: A Framework for Provider-Patient Conversations, 30:3 Negotiation J. 409 (2004) •	Regulating “Healing:” Notes on the Ecology of Awareness and the Awareness of Ecology (4:78 St. John’s Law Review 2004). •	Pediatric Use of Complementary Therapies: Ethical and Policy Choices (Pediatrics 116:e568-575 (October 1, 2005) [with co-authors] •	The Yoga Teacher’s Employment Contract, Yoga Journal

References

AJS Reyald, Integrative Medicine Gains a Foothold (Psychiatric Times)

Clyde B. Jensen, A Spectrum of Healing in Future Medicine(Health Affairs, May/June 2003)

Dynamic Chiropractic, Whither Goes Alternative Care?

Wayne B. Jonas, MD, Beyond Complementary Medicine (December 2002 - Volume 77 - Issue 12, Part 1 - p 1266).

Daniel J. Kornstein, The Lawyer’s Guide to Writing Well; Creative Writing for Lawyers (New York Law Journal, August 10, 1991).

Dr. John Mack—A Tribute, Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness (Institute of Noetic Sciences, March-May 2005 (No. 6)).

Mehmet Oz, Review, Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Legal Boundaries and Regulatory Perspectives (Journal of Legal Medicine 20:1:141-150 (1999)).

Leo Uzych, Review, Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Legal Boundaries and Regulatory Perspectives (280:18 JAMA 1633-4 (Nov. 11, 1998)

John Weeks, Michael Cohen’s “Healing at the Borderland of Medicine and Religion”

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Notes

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External Links

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

BusinessLegal (Official channel)

Integrative Practitioner: The Premier Online Community for Integrative Healthcare Professionals

International Association for Physicians in Aesthetic Medicine, Key Legal Issues for Medical Spas and Aesthetic Medical Practices

Program on Negotiation Dispute Resolution Forum, Harvard Law School, Negotiating Complementary Medicine.

Michael H. Cohen Law Group (Official Website)

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