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Lauren Cohn, MD

Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine)
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Additional Titles

Associate Director, MD/PHD Program

Director, Newington VA Pulmonary Clinic, Medicine, VA Connecticut Health System

Contact Info

Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

PO Box 208057, 300 Cedar Street

New Haven, CT 06520-8057

United States

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

Other Departments & Organizations

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

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Airway Management; Asthma; Epithelium; Lung; Lung Diseases; Metaplasia

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Lauren Cohn's published research.

Publications

2023

2022

2021

2020

Clinical Trials

Current Trials

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • activity

    Editorial Board, American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology

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    Member, Allergy, Immunology and Inflammation Assembly

  • activity

    Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of Immunology, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, Mucosal Immunology, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Chest and others.

  • activity

    Dupilimab Asthma Advisory Boards (multiple)

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    Pieris Asthma Advisory Board

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

Internal Medicine; Pulmonology & Sleep Medicine; Asthma

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Contacts

Academic Office Number
Appointment Number
Clinic Fax Number
Mailing Addresses

Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

PO Box 208057, 300 Cedar Street

New Haven, CT 06520-8057

United States

Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

333 Cedar Street, P.O. Box 208057

New Haven, CT 06511

United States

Locations

  • The Anlyan Center

    Academic Office

    300 Cedar Street, Ste S433

    New Haven, CT 06519

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