John S. Cohen MD

John S. Cohen, M.D. is Director Emeritus of the Glaucoma Service at the Cincinnati Eye Institute (CEI). He is a graduate of the University of Louisville School of Medicine, received his Ophthalmology training at the University of Cincinnati, and completed his Glaucoma Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Cohen was Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of South Florida from 1975 to 1977 where he taught glaucoma and cataract implant surgery. He was Chief of the Glaucoma Service at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine from 1977 to 1984 and is presently Volunteer Clinical Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology.

Dr. Cohen performed clinical research in the medical and surgical treatment of glaucoma, has published many articles and textbook chapters, produced numerous teaching videotapes, and has lectured in the United States and internationally on glaucoma and cataract surgery. He has organized and led courses designed to train ophthalmologists in the use of glaucoma laser surgery. He is a founder of the Annual Midwest Glaucoma Symposium, which has held yearly glaucoma meetings in the Midwest since 1977 and sponsors the annual John S. Cohen Lecture in his honor. Ophthalmologists from the United States and other countries have trained under Dr. Cohen’s supervision at the Cincinnati Eye Institute.

Dr. Cohen is Board Certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology, is a founding member of the American Glaucoma Society, and a recipient of the Honor Award and Senior Honor Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He has been selected by his peers to Best Doctors in America. Dr. Cohen does laser surgery for glaucoma and secondary cataracts.