Dr. Joel Cohen MD
Dr.
Joel Cohen is a nationally recognized leader in Dermatology, Dermatologic
Surgery, and Cosmetic Dermatology. He is a Board Certified dermatologist
with fellowship training in Mohs Micrographic dermatologic surgery and
cosmetic dermatology. He was the 2005 recipient of the American Society of
Dermatologic Surgery (ASDS) Public Service Award. Dr. Cohen is currently the
National Chair of the Patient Education Committee of the American Society of
Dermatologic Surgery. He has also been elected to the Board of Trustees of
the American Society of Cosmetic Dermatology and Aesthetic Surgery, and
served as the Meeting Chair for the 2006 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas. He
was the 2006 President of the Colorado Dermatologic Society, and has
recently been elected as a Young Leader of the American Academy of
Dermatology. He has been appointed to the Membership and Actinic Keratosis
Committees of the American Academy of Dermatology, to the Public Affairs and
Young Leadership Committees of the American College of Mohs Micrographic
Surgery and Cutaneous Oncology. Dr. Cohen also served for 3 years on the
FDA liaison committee of the American Academy of Dermatology. He is one of
less than 10 full fellowship-trained Mohs skin cancer surgeons in the State
of Colorado (and spent 3 years with Mohs surgery pioneer and Mohs surgery
textbook author Dr. George Mikhail). Joel has also been a member of the
Colorado Cancer Coalition’s Skin Cancer Task Force since 2003.
Dr. Cohen is a national/international lecturer and an active writer, editor, instructor, consultant and clinical trial participant. During his Mohs College skin cancer fellowship, Dr. Cohen participated in two cosmetic clinical trials while studying for a year with Botox pioneers Jean and Alastair Carruthers (the husband and wife team credited with having discovered the cosmetic use of Botox in the early 1990’s). Joel continues to participate in cosmetic clinical trials, serving as an investigator in four botulinum toxin trials—including two current FDA Reloxin (Dysport) trials (serving as the national lead investigator in one of them) and a principal investigator for a Botox brow-lift trial as well as a Botox mid-face trial. He is also a lead investigator in two other FDA injectable cosmetic trials involving Restylane and Perlane as well as a new topical anesthetic (S-Caine Peel by Zars). He has recently completed two new trials: Radiesse tissue augmentation and NeoCutis eye cream. Underway currently, are several injectable trials (including JuveDerm and Evolence Breeze) as well as laser trials (including Cynosure, Palomar, and Sciton for scars, telangiectasias, resurfacing and fractional resurfacing) and topical therapies.
Joel has been selected as a National Instructor for Botox since 2001 (Allergan), Restylane (Medicis), Sculptra (Aventis), Radiesse (BioForm) as well as Palomar and Cynosure lasers/light sources. Dr. Cohen was selected as the Co-Chair of the new filler JuveDerm (made by the company that makes Botox) launch meeting in Laguna in September 2006. He is one of 10 physicians in North America that lectured to and trained the Botox physician faculty instructors on advanced uses of Botox and fillers at the 2006 Santa Monica Botox National Education Faculty meeting in February. And, he was selected to serve as one of 5 North American Botox leaders to travel to London during Summer 2006 to write the International Botox Consensus Paper along with 5 European physicians. He is also one of 18 physicians in the country who has been selected to serve as an official Restylane Consensus consultant, instructor, author and speaker. He is also a speaker and advisor for medications related to skin cancer including Aldara (3M) and Carac (Dermik)—and has been an invited lecturer at the international Skin Cancer Foundation annual meeting in 2004 and 2006. He has also been an invited speaker at many medical society meetings including the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (2005), the American Society of Cosmetic Dermatology and Aesthetic Surgery (2004-2007), the combined annual winter ski meeting for Dermatologic/Facial Plastic/Oculoplastic surgery (2004-2007), Skin Disease Education Foundation, Hawaii Derm, Advances in Cosmetic and Medical Dermatology, American Society of Dermatologic Surgery as well as the American Academy of Dermatology winter and summer meetings. He is a speaker and a Co-Director of the annual Cosmetic Boot Camp meeting. Dr. Cohen lectures at various other national meetings related to cosmetic surgery and skin cancer every month
He is the author of more than thirty-five medical publications, as well as several book chapters. He is currently finishing co-authoring a McGraw Hill textbook to be released in late 2007. He has recently completed writing two book chapters on filler substances for soft-tissue augmentation, a chapter on the cosmetic use of Botox, and his second book chapter on using Botox to treat hyperhidrosis. He has another Botulinum toxin chapter, two more filler chapters in press as well as several articles related to skin cancer and reconstruction. He is also the author and editor of a new column in Skin and Aging magazine on surgical pearls. Joel has been interviewed for aesthetic dermatology and skin cancer stories in Glamour, Prevention, Shape, The New York Times and Seventeen magazine. Dr. Cohen has also been interviewed in the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News and has appeared on over 30 Denver television and radio news programs (including ABC 7News, CBS 4News, NBC 9News, WB News Denver and Fox News). He is a senior editor of Cosmetic Dermatology and also serves as an editor for Dermatologic Surgery, Aesthetic Dermatology, Dermanities, Skin and Aging, Journal of Cosmetic and Laser Therapy, Aesthetic Buyer’s Guide and Journal of Drugs in Dermatology. He is also an active volunteer, and has been appointed a member of the Colorado Cancer Coalition’s Skin Cancer Task Force, and has been the Co-Chair of the race committee for the annual Denver skin cancer awareness race—Summer Solstice: Miles to Fight Melanoma (the largest annual skin cancer awareness melanoma program in the country).
Dr. Cohen graduated Brandeis University Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in History, and was the recipient of the Steinberg Prize for outstanding achievement in History and Science. He then graduated New York’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine with Honors, and was awarded the Auxiliary Board’s Award for Excellence in Health Care Delivery Services. He is married to Nicole Goldie Cohen MD, an academic pediatrician at the University of Colorado’s Denver Children’s Hospital, and is the father of toddler Tillie Yael Cohen. He is now the Director of AboutSkin Dermatology and DermSurgery in metropolitan-Denver, and is on the volunteer faculty at the University of Colorado serving as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology. In practice 5 years, he has been voted by his peers as one of Denver’s Top Doctors in 5280 magazine FOUR times including listings for cosmetic procedures as well as dermatology.
