About Doc MishaMisha Ruth Cohen Doctor Of Oriental Medicine, Licensed Acupuncturist, 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 Visiting Research 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 27 years. 
Education & TrainingAfter attending Oberlin College, Misha Cohen was trained at Lincoln Hospital’s Detox Program in the South Bronx under the auspices of the Quebec School of Acupuncture and also at the San Francisco College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine where she received her doctorate in gynecology. She is nationally certified in acupuncture and herbal medicine. She has developed treatment protocols for people with HIV/AIDS for twenty years. She was a member of 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.
WritingDr. Cohen has written numerous articles, appeared on national radio and TV, and has contributed to several books. She is the author of The Chinese Way to Healing: Many Paths to Wholeness (Perigee, 1996), 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 the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Editor for NUMEDX Magazine (numedx.com) and is a featured as a columnist in Hepatitis Magazine (Ask Doc Misha). She is also featured on Doc Misha’s Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine Web site (www.docmisha.com)
TeachingDr. Cohen is recognized internationally as a senior teacher and leading expert in traditional Chinese medicine. She has been 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 regularly trains medical doctors and other Chinese medicine practitioners in Europe and the US in gynecology, HIV, hepatitis, and other subjects. She regularly attends and presents at international AIDS and hepatitis symposiums, as well as many Chinese medicine and lay conferences.
ResearchIn Dr. Cohen’s years with Quan Yin, 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 was a co-investigator in three 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. Dr. Cohen also was principal investigator in a Quan Yin study of the use of acupuncture in co-infection with HIV/hepatitis viruses. She is currently collaborating with two University of California research teams. At the UCSF Cancer Center, she is a co-investigator in an NIH-approved study of the use traditional Chinese medicine in anal neoplasia and is an investigator in a proposed acupuncture study for cancer-related neuropathy. She is also collaborating with the UCSF Institute for Health and Aging in three proposed studies:
She is also conducting herbal and acupuncture research with MDs at UCSF and CPMC in conjunction with the Hepatitis C Caring Ambassadors World-Class Brainstorming Team.
TreatmentsDr. Cohen has created traditional Chinese medicine treatment protocols for PMS, infertility, hepatitis, HIV, and menopausal syndromes which 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.
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