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Dr. M. Michael Cohen Jr. studied at the University of Michigan, Tufts University, University of Minnesota and Boston University. He holds five university degrees from four universities (two from Minnesota). He has been Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle and at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. His long-standing interests include clinical genetics, pathology, and health care in developing countries. His research focuses on bone disorders, overgrowth syndromes, and central nervous system malformations. He is the author of more than 400 original articles, chapters, letters, and editorial comments, as well as 14 books, for which he is an author, coauthor, or editor.
Numerous Invited Lectures, Keynote Addresses, and Visiting Professorships at Universities throughout North America, Europe, and Other Regions
Experience in the United States, Canada, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Netherlands, Kenya, Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Japan, Spain, Norway, Brazil, Iceland, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore, India, and Austria
Honors
American Cancer Society
Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1966-1968
U. S. Public Health
Service Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1968-1971
U.S. Public Health
Service Research Career Development Award Recipient, 1971-1976
Outstanding Teacher
Award, University of Washington, 1977
Genetics
Inter-Institute Lecture, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,
Maryland, 1979
President Harold T.
Shapiro Inaugural Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, 1980
Sidney Farber Lecture,
Pediatric Pathology Society, Chicago, 1981
Warren Wheeler Memorial
Lecture, Department of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky, Lexington,
Kentucky, 1983
Distinguished Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons Lecture, Canadian Paediatric
Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 1984
Genetics
Inter-Institute Lecture, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,
Maryland, 1985
Heritage Scholar
Visiting Professor of Pathology, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 1985
Keynote Address,
Dutch-Flemish Craniofacial Association, Arnhem, The Netherlands, 1985
Visiting Professor,
Japan (Pathology Department, University of Niigata; Kyoto University
Medical School; Hiroshima University Medical School), 1986
Keynote Address,
International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery, New York, 1987
Keynote Address, Josef
Warkany Symposium, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1988
Visiting Professor,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1988-1989
Heritage Scholar
Visiting Professor of Neurology, University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Alberta, 1990
Sixth Annual Jarabak
Lecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1990
Sixth Annual Sarnat
Lecture on Bone Biology, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 1990
Invited Lecture, Bergen
Art Museum, Bergen, Norway, 1991
Keynote Address, Annual
Italian Dysmorphology Meeting, Rome, Italy, 1991
Visiting Professor,
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 1992
Chairman, Plenary
Session, Seventh International Congress on Cleft Palate and Related
Craniofacial Anomalies, Broadbeach, Australia, 1993
Keynote Speaker,
Symposium on Craniofacial Anomalies, Adelaide, Australia, 1993
Visiting Professor,
Australia (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth), November
6-26, 1993
Genetics
Inter-Institute Lecture, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,
Maryland, 1994
President, Bauru
International Craniofacial Congress, Bauru, Brazil, 1994
Visiting Professor,
Department of Pediatrics, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, 1994
Visiting Professor,
South Africa (University of Witwatersrand; University of
Stellenbosch; University of the North; Southern African Society of
Human Genetics at Langebaan; International Fetal Pathology Workshop
at Kruger Park), March 22-April 10, 1995
First Wilton M. Krogman
Lecture, Children's Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1995
Honors Award for
Lifetime Achievement, American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association,
San Diego, California, 1996
Fellow, Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo Medical and Dental University;
Kyoto University Medical School; Hiroshima University Medical School;
Niigata University Dental School; Fukuoka University Dental School;
Nagasaki University Medical School), August 20-September 15, 1996
Prize, Best Published
Paper, Awarded by the International Congress of Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgeons, Kyoto, Japan, 1997
Paolo Raimondi Lecture,
Congress of Neurological Surgeons, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1997
Cohen Syndrome,
Biographical Sketch Detailing Discovery of the Disorder in 1973, in
The Person Behind the Syndrome, by P. Beighton and G.
Beighton, Springer-Verlag, London, Great Britain, 1997
Harald Löe
Scholar's Award Recipient, Washington, D.C. and Bethesda, Maryland,
March 5-June 5, 1998
Invited Lecture, National
Center for Human Genome Research, National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, Maryland, 1998
Keynote Address,
Symposium on Growth, Stockholm, Sweden, 1998
Keynote Address,
National Congress of Medical Genetics, Avellino, Italy, 1998
Visiting Professor,
Japan (International Congress for the Handicapped; Yokohama; Osaka
University Dental School; Okayama University Dental School)
Toomey Memorial
Lecture, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, 1999
Keynote Address,
Medical Genetics Conference, San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, 1999
Second Morris Minton
Lecture, Baylor University, Houston, Texas, 1999
Visiting Professor,
Japan (Tokyo Medical and Dental University; 10th Annual
Meeting of the Japanese Society of Jaw Deformities, Otsu; Osaka
University Dental School; Okayama University Dental School; Kyoto
University Medical School), April 13-May 5, 2000
Visiting Professor,
Japan (6th International Federation of Teratology
Societies, Matsue; Hiroshima University Medical School; Kyoto
University Medical School), July, 2000
Presidential Lecture,
World Cleft Congress, Zurich, Switzerland, 2000
Visiting Professor,
Japan (Tokyo Medical and Dental University; Hokkaido University
Dental School; Hiroshima University Medical School; Kyoto University
Medical School; Tokushima University Dental School; Aichi-Gakuin
University Cleft Palate Foundation, Nagoya; Department of Pediatrics,
Nagoya City University Medical School), February 1-April 31, 2001
Symposium Speaker,
Opening Ceremony for the Women's and Children's Medical Center,
Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, 2001
Keynote Speaker,
Australia and New Zealand Dental Specialists Annual Meeting,
Queenstown, New Zealand, 2001
Sixth Annual C. J.
Lyons Endowed Lecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan,
2002
Distinguished
Academician, Academy of Medicine, Singapore, 2002
Third L. Stefan Levin
Memorial Lecture, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, 2003
Keynote Lecture, Bryan
D. Hall Festschrift, Lake Arrowhead, California, 2003
Keynote Address, Tenth
Congress of the South African Society of Human Genetics, Durban, South Africa,
2003
Visiting Professor, Department of Human Genetics, National Laboratory Service,
Corner Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa, May 5-9, 2003
Presidential Lecture,
Congress of the Indian Association of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgeons, Mangalore, India, 2003
Speaker of the Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, Prenatal Diagnosis and
Medical Genetics Symposium, Toronto, Canada, 2004
Opening Address,
Sixteenth Brazilian Congress of Clinical Genetics, Belem, Brazil,
2004
Visiting Professor,
Japan (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Juntendo Hospital, Tokyo
Teishin Hospital, Jikei University School of Medicine, Kyoto
University Medical School, University of Tokushima Dental School, and
University of Osaka Dental School), May 2-August 1, 2005
Keynote Address,
Japanese Teratology Society, Tokyo, Japan, 2005
Presidential Lecture,
17th International Conference of Oral and Maxillofacial
Surgery, Vienna, Austria, 2005
Ruder Lectureship, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, 2006
M. Michael Cohen Jr. Festschrift, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2007
First Robert J. Gorlin Lecture, University of Minnesota, 2007
Publication of the M. Michael Cohen Jr. Festschrift in his honor in the American Journal of Medical Genetics, Volume 143A, Number 24,
December 15, 2007 (59 articles, 476 page issue)
Third Ronald J. Lemire Lecture, University of Washington, 2008
Selected Books
Cohen MM Jr: The Child with Multiple Birth Defects, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, New York, 1997.
Cohen MM Jr, MacLean RE: Craniosynostosis: Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Management, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, New York, 2000.
Cohen MM Jr, Neri G, Weksberg R: Overgrowth Syndromes, Oxford University Press, New York, 2002.
Cohen MM Jr: Perspectives on the Face, Oxford University Press, New York, 2006.
Gorlin RJ, Cohen MM Jr, Hennekam RCM: Syndromes of the Head and Neck, Fourth Edition, Oxford University Press, New York, 2001.
Selected Symposia
Cohen MM Jr (Editor): Robert J. Gorlin Festschrift, American Journal of Medical Genetics, October 1st Issue, 47:575-806, 1993.
Cohen MM Jr (Editor): The Gorlin Symposium on Overgrowth, American Journal of Medical Genetics, October 2nd Issue, 79:233-333, 1998.
Cohen MM Jr (Editor): The Gorlin Symposium on Asymmetry, American Journal of Medical Genetics, July 15th Issue, 101:289-392, 2001.
Cormier-Daire V, Cohen MM Jr (Editors): Overgrowth Syndromes: An Update, American Journal of Medical Genetics, August 15th Issue, 137C: 1-77, 2005.
Cohen MM Jr (Editor): Thirteenth Annual Robert J. Gorlin Conference on Dysmorphology: Facial and Oral Structures: Molecular Perspectives, American Journal of Medical Genetics, December 1st Issue, 140A:2511-2706, 2006
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
Cohen MM Jr: Robert J. Gorlin, 1923-2006: A Remembrance. American Journal of Medical Genetics 140A:2516-2520, 2006.
Cohen MM Jr: Robert J. Gorlin, 1923-2006: Evolution of His Phenotype. American Journal of Human Genetics 80:585-587, 2007.
Cohen MM Jr: Robert J. Gorlin as a Humorist. American Journal of Medical Genetics 143A:1131-1134, 2007.
Cohen MM Jr: Hemangiomas: Their Uses and Abuses, American Journal of Medical Genetics 143A:235-240, 2007.