Seth A.

Cohen

MD

MSc

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bio

Dr. Cohen is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington and the Medical Director of Infection Prevention at UW Medical Center. Dr. Cohen has attended on Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Infectious Disease service at UW and currently attends on the ID consult service at UW Medical Center. He is passionate about medical education and co-directs the annual Tropical Medicine elective (GH561) in the UW School of Medicine. Dr. Cohen specializes in caring for patients who may have compromised immune systems due to cancer, transplantation, or autoimmune disease, as well as people living with HIV. He is especially interested in general infectious diseases, including sexually transmitted infections, surgical infections, osteomyelitis, prosthetic joint infections, travel, and tropical medicine. 

research interests

• Epidemiology of Invasive Fungal Infections
• Quality Improvement
• Infection Prevention
• Employee Health
• Healthcare Associated Infections

clinical interests

• General Infectious Diseases
• Travel and Tropical Medicine 
• Sexually transmitted infections
• Surgical infections
• Osteomyelitis and prosthetic joint infections
• Patients with compromised immune systems 
• HIV
• Internal Medicine 

education & training

MD, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA (2009)

MS, Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (2016)

honors

Woodruff Scholar, Emory University, Atlanta, GA (2005-2009)

Alpha Omega Alpha, University of California, San Francisco, CA (2010)

Outstanding Resident Research Award, University of California, San Francisco, CA (2011)

Institute of Translational Health Sciences Fellow Award, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (2014-2016)

UWMC Patient Safety Hero, Seattle, WA (2021)

Seattle Magazine Top Doctors, Infectious Diseases, Seattle (2021, 2023-2024)

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