Meet Doc Misha

About Misha Ruth Cohen, OMD, L.Ac.

Misha Ruth Cohen is recognized internationally as a practitioner, lecturer, researcher and leader in the field of traditional Chinese medicine. Misha is as a doctor of Asian medicine and a licensed acupuncturist. For more than 34 years she has practiced Asian medicine and is the author of “The Chinese Way to Healing: Many Paths to Wholeness,” “The HIV Wellness Sourcebook,” and “The Hepatitis C Help Book.” She is the Clinical Director of Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine, Executive Director of the Misha Ruth Cohen Education Foundation and Research Specialist V for Integrative Medicine at the UCSF Institute for Health and Aging, all in San Francisco. In 2009, she was appointed to the San Francisco Mayor’s Hepatitis C Task Force. On a national level, she is the Secretary of the Board of the Society for Acupuncture Research and sits on the Brainstorming Team of the Hepatitis C Caring Ambassadors Program.

Doc Misha is a principal investigator in Chinese herbal medicine clinical trials and translational research for viral-related cancers and cancer prevention in HPV, HIV and hepatitis C. Currently, she is conducting a two-year clinical trial and translational research in Chinese herbal medicine for the prevention of anal cancer in HIV+ people conducted at the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s Clinical Research Center. She is also designing Chinese herbal medicine and integrative medicine translational and clinical research in hepatitis C and other subjects, working closely with Western physicians and researchers at California Pacific Medical Center, UCSF and other institutions.