Prof. Barak Cohen graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s medical school in 2003, and served as a medical officer in the IDF until 2015. He concomitantly completed his residency in the division of anesthesia, intensive care, and pain medicine in the Tel-Aviv Medical Center. During his residency and service, he gained experience in clinical work, pre-hospital care, and national preparedness to mass-casualty events. In 2016, he started a 3-year clinical research fellowship in the Cleveland Clinic’s Outcomes Research Department, serving as the department’s chief research fellow.
After his return to Tel-Aviv in 2019, he was nominated as vice chair and head of the research and innovation section in the division of Anesthesia, Intensive Care, and Pain medicine in the Tel-Aviv Medical Center. In this position, prof. Cohen combines clinical work and oversight of clinical research in the largest anesthesia department in Israel.
In 2024, Prof. Cohen was elected as the president of the Israeli Society of Anesthesiologists. He also serves as the chair of Forum 5 (devices and technologies) of the European Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care’s (ESAIC) Scientific Committee, and a member of the Outcomes Research Consortium.
Prof. Cohen’s main areas of interest include continuous postoperative monitoring, postoperative delirium, patient-centered peri-operative outcomes, and innovation and technologies in peri-operative care.