David H. Cohen, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychiatry and Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where served as Vice President and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1995-2003. Prior to joining Columbia, he served as Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School and subsequently as Provost at Northwestern University. He has held professorships in physiology and/or neuroscience at Northwestern, SUNY Stony Brook, the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and Case Western University School of Medicine.

Dr. Cohen has held various elected offices in national and international organizations, including President of the Society for Neuroscience and Chairman of the Association of American Medical Colleges. He has served on varied boards including, for example, Argonne National Laboratory, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Zenith Electronics, and Columbia University Press. He has also served on numerous advisory committees for various organizations, including NIH, NSF, DOD, and NAS.

Dr. Cohen received his B.A. from Harvard University, Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and was an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA.