Who We Are.
Preventive Medicine Associates is directed by Irving A. Cohen, M.D.,M.P.H., F.A.C.P.M..
It was founded by Dr. Cohen to allow Kansans to obtain guidance from a well-qualified Preventive Medicine physician.
Dr. Cohen is a Fellow of The American College of Preventive Medicine. He is Board-Certified by The American Board
of Preventive Medicine in the specialty of General Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Following medical school, Dr.
Cohen focused his career on the prevention of disease.
He received his Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins
University. He completed a Preventive Medicine residency at Hopkins and went on to become the Chief Resident of Preventive
Medicine at Johns Hopkins, supervising other physicians in the largest non-governmental Preventive Medicine program in the nation.
Dr. Cohen has recently made professional presentations about obesity and weight-loss at local, regional, national and international
scientific venues. These have included:
University of Kansas Medical Center, Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, Kansas City, Kansas 2007
The obesity epidemic, metabolic syndrome and adult-onset diabetes: Combining a modern perspective and ancient answers
Kansas Public Health Association, Annual Conference, Topeka, Kansas 2006
Using a computer model to evaluate weight-reduction strategies
Indian Health Service, Annual Research Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2006
A Model For Analyzing and Reversing Historic Dietary Trends Which Contributed to Obesity And Its Resultant Disease Burden
The American College of Preventive Medicine, "Prevention 2006", Annual Scientific Meeting, Reno, Nevada 2006
Development of a Modified Ketogenic Ratio for Weight-Reduction Dieting and
Analysis of Historic Medical Knowledge Concerning Obesity And Diet
The North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO/The Obesity Society), Annual Scientific Meeting , Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2005
Nutritional Analysis of Popular Historical Weight-Reduction Diets
American Association for the History of Medicine, Annual Meeting Birmingham, Alabama 2005
Weight Loss Advice of the Late Nineteenth Century
In the past, Dr. Cohen has held adjoint teaching appointments at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City
in the Department of the History of Medicine and in the Department of Preventive Medicine. He has also held adjunct teaching
appointments at the State University of New York School of Medicine in Buffalo in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine
and the Department of Medicine. He served as an adjunct faculty at The Graduate School in Washington, D.C. in the Department of
Computer Science and the Department of Mathematics. In addition to being a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine,
Dr. Cohen is also a Fellow of the American Society for Addiction Medicine and is Board-Certified in Addiction Medicine by the American
Board of Addiction Medicine.
Dr. Cohen currently resides in Shawnee County and has called Kansas home since 1991.
**This site is intended to provide information about programs and services available through
Preventive Medicine Associates LLC. This website is not intended to offer individual medical advice.
If you require care, contact us or consult your personal physician.