The American Association of Equine Practitioners presented Noah Cohen, VMD, MPH, PhD, PhD, DACVIM, for its latest research on horsepage disorders and Rhodococcus -Equi its AAEP research procedure of 2024, the progress in understanding pathophysiology, diagnosis and the Treatment of them. Diseases.
The AAEP Research Award recognizes a person who has completed research who has or have a significant impact on the diagnosis, treatment or prevention of horse diseases. Dr. Cohen accepted his price on December 10th during the lunch of the President at the 70th annual congress of the AAEP in Orlando, Florida.
According to his co-nominators Drs. Nathaniel White, Bill Moyer and C. Wayne Mcilwraith: “Both diseases represent considerable morbidity with negative economic effects on the horse industry. On the latest inventions by Dr. Cohen includes a serological test for strangles and an RNA vaccine for rhodococcus foal pneumonia in the past two years. ”
Dr. Cohen received his veterinary degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1983. After two years in private horse practice, he completed MPH and PhD degrees in epidemiology at John's Hopkins University, followed by great internal medicine in Texas A & M. In 1991 he entered the Texas A&M as an assistant professor for Equine Medicine Faculty.
Dr. Cohen worked in the AAEP infectious diseases and research committees and held the state-of-the-art lecture by Frank J. Milne on Equine Epidemiology at the AAEP annual convention 2011. His numerous other awards include John Hickman Memorial Lecture 2002 at the British Equine Veterinary Association Congress, 2008 Schering-Plow Applied Equine Research Award, the Zoetis Award for Excellence in Research and AVMA Clinical Research Award 2015.
