Department of Surgery Faculty

Stephen M. Cohn, MD, Professor

Witten B. Russ Professor

Division: Trauma / General Surgery
Email: cohn@uthscsa.edu

Board Certifications:
American Board of Surgery, Added Qualifications for Critical Care, 1988
American Board of Surgery, 1988

Education:
MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 1980
BA-Biochemistry, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 1976

Postgraduate training:
Post Doctoral, Critical Care/Trauma, Boston University/Boston City Hospital, Boston, MA., 1986-87
Residency, Boston University Surgical Program, Boston, MA, 1982-1986
Internship, Baylor Affiliated Hospitals, Houston, TX, 1981-82 (6 mos medicine, 12 mos surgery)

Research interests: Trauma, surgical infection, models of resuscitation

Clinical interests: General surgery, trauma care, critical care

Publications:
Cohn SM, Price MA, Villarreal CL. Trauma and surgical critical care workforce in the United States: a severe surgeon shortage appears imminent. J Am Coll Surg. 2009 Oct;209(4):446-452.e4. Epub 2009 Aug 20.

Price MA, Cohn SM, Love J, Dent DL, Esterl R. Educational debt of physicians-in-training: determining the level of interest in a loan repayment program for service in a medically underserved area. J Surg Educ. 2009 Jan-Feb;66(1):8-13.

Schuster KM, Lopez PP, Greene T, Wheeler, K, Soffer D, Habib F, Cohn SM, Schulman CI. How can trauma surgeons maintain their operative skills? J Trauma 2008;65:387-389.

Paladino JA, Gilliland-Johnson KK, Adelman MH, Cohn SM. Pharmacoeconomics of Ciprofloxacin plus Metronidazole vs. Piperacillin-Tazobactam for Complicated Intra-Abdominal Infections. Surg Infect, 2008 June;9(3):325-33.

Moore FA, Nelson T, McKinley BA, Moore EE, Nathens AB, Rhee P, Puyana JC, Beilman GJ, Cohn SM; StO2 Study Group. Massive transfusion in trauma patients: tissue hemoglobin oxygen saturation predicts poor outcome. J Trauma. 2008 Apr;64(4):1010-23. Cohn SM, Price MA, Stewart RM, Corneille MG, Myers JG, McCarthy J, Jonas RB, Hargis SM, Dent DL. Surgical Critical Care and Private Practice Surgeons: A Different World Out There! J.AmCollSurg, 2008 Mar;206(3):419-425. Epub 2007 Dec 11.

Corneille MG, Steigelman MB, Myers JG, Jundt J, Dent DL, Lopez PP, Cohn SM, Stewart RM. Laparoscopic appendectomy is superior to open appendectomy in obese patients. American Journal of Surgery 194 (2007) 877-881.

Eiden MW, Gross GW, Alley J, Cohn SM, Deschner K. Gallstone ileus presenting with hematemesis. Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Volume 66, No.3,2007. p596-597.

Cohn SM. Near-infrared spectroscopy: potential clinical benefits in surgery. J AmCollSurg, Vol.205, No.2, August 2007, 322-332.

MacLeod JBA, Lefton J, Houghton D, Roland C, Doherty J, Cohn SM, Barquist ES. Prospective randomized control trial of intermittent versus continuous gastric feeds for critically ill trauma patients. J Trauma 2007;63:57-61.

Cohn SM, Price MA, Stewart RM, Pruitt BA Jr, Dent DL. Perceptions and attitudes of critical care training and careers amount United States surgical residents: Who wants to be a surgical intensivist? American Surgeon. 2007;73:433-437.

Cohn, Stephen M. MD, FACS. Potential Benefit of Vasopressin in Resuscitation of Hemorrhagic Shock. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care: Vol62(6) Supplement - June 2007pp S56-S57

Cohn SM, Price MA, Stewart RM, Pruitt BA Jr., Dent DL. Perceptions and Attitudes of Critical Care Training and Careers Among United States Surgical Residents: Who Wants to be a Surgical Intensivist? The American Surgeon, May 2007;73:433-437.

Reed CC, Stewart RM, Sherman M, Myers JG, Corneille MG, Larson N, Gerhardt S, Beadle R, Gamboa C, Dent DL, Cohn SM, Pruitt BA Jr. Intensive Insulin Protocol Improves Glucose Control and Is Associated with a Reduction in Intensive Care Unit Mortality. J Am Coll Surg 2007;204:1048-1055.

Cohn SM, Price MA, Stewart RM, Michalek JE, Dent DL, McFarland MJ, Pruitt BA. A Crisis in the Delivery of Care to Patients with Brain Injuries in South Texas. J Trauma; 2007;62:951-963.

Cohn, SM. Advances in Oxygen Therapeutic Agents. Critical Connections, Feb 2007; p8.

Cohn SM, Nathens AB, Moore FA, Rhee P, Puyana JC, Moore EE, Beilman GJ, and the StO2 in Trauma Patients Trial Investigators. Tissue Oxygen Saturation Predicts the Development of Organ Dysfunction During Traumatic Shock Resuscitation. The Journal of TRAUMA Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, January 2007.

Corneille MG, Larson S, Stewart RM, Dent D, Myers JG, Lopez PP, McFarland MJ, Cohn SM. A large single-center experience with treatment of patients with crotalid envenomations: outcomes with and evolution of antivenin therapy. The American Journal of Surgery 192(2006) 848-852.

Cohn SM (Editor). Contributing authors: Barquist E, Byers PM, Ginzburg E, Habib FA, Lynn M, McKenney M, Namias N, Shatz D, Sleeman D. Complications in Surgery and Trauma. Marcel Dekker, Ltd., Informa Healthcare, 2006. In-depth resource focusing on surgical complications; provides practical information on incidence, management, and avoidance of complications encountered during and after surgical procedures.

King DR, de Moya MM, McKenney MG, Cohn SM. Modified rapid deployment hemostat terminates bleeding from hepatic rupture in third trimester. Journal of Trauma, 2006;61:739-742.

Esterl RM, Henzi DL, Cohn SM. Senior Medical Student "Boot Camp": Can Result in Increased Self-Confidence Before Starting Surgery Internships. Current Surgery, Volume 63, Number 4. July/August 2006.

Soffer D, Schulman CI, McKenney MG, Cohn S, Renaud NA, Namias N, Lynn M. What does ultrasonography miss in blunt trauma patients with a low Glasgow Coma Score (GCS)? J Trauma. 2006;60:1184-1188.

Stewart RM, Corneille MG, Johnston J, Geoghegan K, Myers JG, Dent DL, McFarland M, Alley J, Pruitt BA Jr, Cohn SM. Transparent and Open Discussion of Errors Does Not Increase Malpractice Risk in Trauma Patients (Annals of Surgery 2006;243: 645-651)

Novel Computed Tomography Scan Scoring System Predicts the Need for Intervention after Splenic Injury Thompson BT, Munera F, Cohn SM, MacLean AA, Cameron J, Rivas L, Bajayo D.

King DM, Cohn SM, Proctor KG. Resuscitation with a Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carrier after Traumatic Brain Injury The Journal of Trauma 2005 Aug;59(3)

King DR, Cohn SM, Proctor KG. Resuscitation with a hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier after traumatic brain injury. J Trauma 2005 Sep;59(3):553-562.

King DR, Cohn SM, Feinstein AJ, Proctor KG. Systemic coagulation changes caused by pulmonary artery catheters: laboratory findings and clinical correlation. J Trauma 2005 Oct;59(4):853-859.

Feinstein AJ, Cohn SM, King DR, Sanui M, Proctor KG. Early vasopressin improves short-term survival after pulmonary contusion. J Trauma 2005 Oct;59(4):876-883.

Lopez PP, Benjamin R, Cockburn M, Amortegui JD, Schulman CI, Soffer D, Blackbourne LH, Habib F, Jerokhimov I, Trankel S, Cohn SM. Recent Trends in the Management of Combined Pancreatoduodenal Injuries The American Surgeon 2005 Oct;71(10):848-852.

Feinstein AJ, Cohn SM, King DR, Masamitsu S, Proctor KG. Early Vasopressin Improves Short-Term Survival after Pulmonary Contusion The Journal of Trauma 2005 Oct;59(4)

King DK, Cohn SM, Feinstein AJ, Proctor KG. Systemic Coagulation Changes Caused by Pulmonary Artery Catheters: Laboratory Findings and Clinical Correlation The Journal of Trauma 2005 Oct;59(4)

Feinstein AJ, Patel MB, Sanui M, Cohn SM, Majetschak M, Proctor KG. Resuscitation with pressors after traumatic brain injury. J Am Coll Surg 2005 Oct;201(4):536-545.

Shander A, Goodnough LT, Ratko T, Matuszewski KA, Cohn, SM, Diringer M, Edmunds H, Lawson J, MacLaren R, Ness P, Shere-Wolfe R, Dubois R. Consensus Recommendations for the Off-Label Use of Recombinant Human Factor Vlla (NovoSeven) Therapy Pharmacy and Therapeutics 2005 Nov;30(11):644

Masamitsu S, King DR, Feinstein AJ, Varon AJ, Cohn SM, Proctor KG. Effects of arginine vasopressin during resuscitation from hemorrhagic hypotension after traumatic brain injury Critical Care Medicine 2005 Nov;34(1)

Liao L, Myers JG, Johnston JE, Corneille MG, Danielson DS, Dent DL, Stewart RM, Pruitt BA, Root HD, Cohn SM. Percutaneous tracheostomy: one center's experience with a new modality The American Journal of Surgery 2005 Dec;190(2005):923-926.

Biosketch: Dr. Cohn received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine and completed his residency training at Baylor and Boston University, where he then completed a critical care fellowship in 1987. He joined the faculty at Yale University in 1990 where he served as Chief of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care. In 1997 he arrived at the University of Miami to become Chief, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care. While in Miami he also held the offices of Medical Director of the Ryder Trauma Center and Co-Director, US Army Trauma Training Center. Dr. Cohn holds the Witten B. Russ Professorship.

Awards:
Witten B. Russ Professor
Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
Duane G. Hutson Lifetime Achievement in Education: Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami School of Medicine - 2004
The Alvarez Award for Excellence in Medical Writing: American Medical Writer's Association - 2000
The Edward H. Storer, M.D.: Yale Surgical Residency Award for Excellence in Surgical Teaching - 1994
Frederick J. McCready: University of Massachusetts Teacher of the Year - Surgical Residents - 1990
Lester F. Williams: Boston University, Medical Student Teaching Award, Surgery - 1986

Professional Societies:
PanAmerican Trauma Society
Society for Advancement of Blood Management
Society of University Surgeons
Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
American College of Surgeons, Fellow
Shock Society
Surgical Infection Society
American College of Chest Physicians, Fellow
Western Trauma Association
Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
Association for Academic Surgery