Stanley Cohen, M.D.

RA Advisory Board

Dr. Cohen is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and in private practice at Rheumatology Associates, Dallas, Texas. He is director of the Division of Rheumatology at Presbyterian Hospital, Dallas; and since 1984-2023 was co-medical director of Metroplex Clinical Research Center which conducted phase 1-IV clinical trials in rheumatic diseases. In that capacity he has served as a consultant to the pharmaceutical industry on protocol development in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), glucocorticoid induced osteoporosis and disease modification in osteoarthritis, as well as serving on medical advisory boards and data safety monitoring committees. Based on the clinical research efforts, he has been an author on numerous publications and has served as a section editor for Up to Date and InPractice Rheumatology. He has been a principal investigator on multicenter trials of therapeutics for RA and autoimmune neurosensory hearing loss. Dr. Cohen has been actively involved in the teaching of rheumatology fellows and residents/medical students during their rotations in the clinical practice Dr. Cohen was past chairman of the Board of The North Texas Chapter of The Arthritis Foundation (AF) and was honored with its Medical Professional Award in 1994. He received the Howard C. Coggeshall Lifetime Achievement Service Award from the North Texas AF in 2006. He has served as President of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) in 2009, and President of the Rheumatology Research Foundation in 1999. He served on the Board of Directors of the ACR from 2001-2004 and served on the Executive Committee of the ACR from 2005-2008. In 2021 he was honored with the ACR Presidential Gold Medal award. Dr. Cohen has served on the Medical Advisory Board of Directors of the Harold C. Simmons Arthritis Center at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and has been a member of the UTSWMC CME Executive Committee. Dr. Cohen graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in biology from the University of Virginia and received his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), with honors, from the University of Alabama, School of Medicine in Birmingham, where he was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha. He then completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Texas and a fellowship in Rheumatology at St. Paul Medical Center/Southwestern Medical School, Dallas.