Lauren Cohn, MD
Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)Cards
About
Titles
Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
Associate Director, MD/PHD Program
Positions outside Yale
Director, Newington VA Pulmonary Clinic, Medicine, VA Connecticut Health System
Appointments
Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
ProfessorPrimary
Other Departments & Organizations
- Asthma & Airways Disease Program
- Cohn Lab
- Internal Medicine
- MD-PhD Program
- Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
- Rheumatic Diseases Research Core
- Tuberculosis Program
- Winchester Center for Lung Disease
- Yale Medicine
- Yale Ventures
Education & Training
- Post-doctoral Fellow
- Yale School of Medicine (1995)
- Fellow
- Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center (1993)
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
- Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (1993)
- Clinical Fellow
- Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (1991)
- Resident
- Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (1990)
- MD
- University of Minnesota (1987)
- BA
- Smith College, Biology (1982)
Research
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Academic Achievements & Community Involvement
Clinical Care
Overview
Lauren Cohn, MD, is a pulmonologist who specializes in asthma, from mild cases to the most severe and complicated ones, and in the use of biologic drugs for severe asthma. She also cares for patients with other complex airway diseases and refractory cough.
Dr. Cohn has always had a deep passion for science and immunology, and when she became a physician, she wanted to apply her interests to respiratory diseases. “I worked in the laboratory doing research on the immunology of asthma using animal models for most of my career,” she says. As an immunologist, she had a special interest in inflammation and cytokines (substances secreted by certain immune system cells and have an effect on other cells). She has made major contributions to understanding the biological pathways that contribute to asthma.
But she found caring for patients with asthma has different rewards. “I like the intensity of pulmonary medicine because you work with complex patients and because of the potential positive impact that treatment can have,” she says. “Respiratory issues have a higher impact on life in general, so treatment can make an impressive difference in our patients’ lives.”
In addition to caring for Yale Medicine patients, Dr. Cohn is co-director of the Yale Center for Asthma and Airway Diseases at Yale and director of Biologics and Advanced Therapeutics for Airway Diseases at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. She also conducts clinical research on the impact of various therapies in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Clinical Specialties
Fact Sheets
Bronchitis
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Yale Medicine News
News & Links
News
- December 18, 2022
Welcoming a New Faculty Associate Director: Lauren Cohn, MD
- September 01, 2022
Eleven New Professors Appointed in Department of Internal Medicine
- July 27, 2022
New Appointments & Promotions Within Department of Internal Medicine
- May 27, 2021
Asthma, Allergies, and COVID-19 Explained