Michael A. Kohn

Dr. Kohn’s primary research interest is in diagnostic and prognostic testing for stroke, myocardial infarction, sepsis, hypo/hyperglycemia, and other emergency conditions. He has also been involved in several treatment trials. He is a professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF where he provides study design consultations to clinical investigators. He also created the UCSF CTSI’s online sample size calculators (www.sample-size.net).

Dr. Kohn is an expert on database management for clinical research, both setting up study databases and extracting data from the electronic health record. He has been teaching in UCSF’s Training in Clinical Research (TICR) Program since 2000, including 10 years (until 2012) as co-director, lecturer, and section leader in the program’s flagship “Designing Clinical Research” course.

He directs the data management and clinical epidemiology courses, leads the second-year master’s seminar, and directs the UCSF Workshop on Evidence-Based Diagnosis. With Thomas B. Newman, he co-authored the clinical epidemiology textbook “Evidence-Based Diagnosis” and is a contributing author to Hulley et al, “Designing Clinical Research.”

For the past 3 years, Dr. Kohn has also been a research advisor to investigators in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford Medical School, and he co-directs the Stanford course on evaluating technologies for diagnosis, prognosis, and screening.