Misha Ruth Cohen, DOM, LAC, has practiced traditional Asian medicine and integrated Chinese medicine for the past 45 years, and is renowned as a senior teacher, mentor, and leading expert in these fields. She trains medical doctors as well as Chinese medicine practitioners and has presented at numerous conferences and symposia. She is the Clinical Director of Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine, Executive Director of the Misha Ruth Cohen Education Foundation, and past Research Specialist of Integrative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Cohen has authored eight books, for both professionals and patients, along with numerous professional journal and consumer magazine articles. She has collaborated with Western university and community-based research teams as a leading researcher in Chinese herbal medicine, acupressure, and acupuncture in the areas of HIV/AIDS, HPV, ovarian cancer, endometriosis, and breast cancer, and herbal formulas she designed for HIV, hepatitis C, chronic viral illness, cancer diagnoses, fibromyalgia, and the common cold are popular among practitioners of Asian medicine.
