About Doc Misha

Misha Ruth Cohen

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, Research and Education Chairperson of Quan Yin Healing Arts Center, and Assistant Researcher for Integrative Medicine at the UCSF Institute for Health and Aging, all in San Francisco. She has been practicing and studying Asian Medicine for 30 years.

Education & Training

After attending Oberlin College, Misha Cohen 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 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.

Writing

Dr. Cohen 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 is also featured on Doc Misha’s Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine Web site (www.docmisha.com)

Teaching

Dr. Cohen 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.

Research

Dr. Cohen is currently a principal investigator on HIV-related and cancer clinical research studies at UCSF and Quan Yin Healing Arts Center. She participates as an investigator onUniversity of California research teams. At the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, she is a consultant in an/NCI funded study of the use traditional Chinese medicine in anal neoplasia. She has been a consultant and/or investigator in several UCSF-sponsored Chinese medicine clinical and translational studies in HIV/AIDS, anal dysplasia, ovarian cancer, endometriosis, and nausea in chemotherapy. She is also an investigator in several proposed studies at UCSF.

Treatments

Dr. Cohen 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.