Dr. Cohen is Director of the Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Clinical Research Program within the Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit of the Massachusetts General Hospital, as well as Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency training and fellowship at the Masschusetts General Hospital. The Perinatal Psychiatry Program was founded in 1987 and is a women’s mental health center dedicated to the evaluation and treatment of psychiatric disorders associated with female reproductive function.

Dr. Cohen is a past recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Faculty Scholar Award and a Young Investigator Award from the National Association of Research in Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD). He has also been a recipient of an Independent Investigator Award from NARSAD to study the course of bipolar illness in pregnancy and the postpartum period. Dr. Cohen is a recipient of the Outstanding Psychiatrist Award for Research from the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society. He has been a principal investigator at a multisite, five-year federally funded study in which the relationship between mood disorder and reproductive endocrine function is being evaluated. He is also principal investigator in an NIMH study to evaluate the risk and predictors of relapse of depression during pregnancy. He has published extensively in the area of women’s mental health with a variety of original research articles, and has contributed to various textbooks in the area of perinatal and reproductive psychiatry.