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Consultant Profile

Dr Mark Cohen

Name:
Dr Mark Cohen MBChB, BSc(Hons), PhD, FRCP(Lond)
Practising at:
Spire Bushey Hospital
Specialties:
  • Endocrinology and Diabetes Mellitus
    • Endocrinology
    • Obesity
    • Parathyroid disease
    • Pituitary disease
    • Thyroid disease
  • General medicine
    Special clinical interests:

    Diabetes and glucose-intolerance: Type 1, Type 2, MODY, Ketosis-prone diabetes

    Endocrinology: Thyroid, Parathyroid, Calcium and Vitamin D, Adrenal, Pituitary, PCOS, Reproductive Endocrinology

    Obesity – medical management

    Endocrinology - thyroid, reproductive endocrinology, adrenal and pituitary disorders

    Research interests:

    Obesity, Gut hormones and the hypothalamic regulation of food intake, The clinical application of GLP-1 receptor agonists (exenatide and liraglutide) in type 2 diabetes, Non islet-cell tumour-induced hypoglycaemia, Pituitary disease.

    Current NHS and /or university posts:

    Consultant Physician and Specialist in Endocrinology and Diabetes at Barnet Hospital and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust

    Year of first medical qualification:
    1994
    Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies:

    Royal College of Physicians
    Royal Society of Medicine
    Society for Endocrinology
    Diabetes UK
    British Medical Association, Osteoporosis Society

     
    Contact Details 
    Telephone number to make a private appointment:
    020 8901 5555
    Private secretary telephone number:
    07719 745515
    Availability:
    Sunday mornings
     
    Background Information 
    Professional profile:

    Dr Mark Cohen provides a comprehensive and personally-tailored service for patients with endocrine and diabetic conditions.  Multi-disciplinary assessment is available for patients with obesity or diabetes, with access to an expert dietitian and diabetic specialist nurse for patients under his care.  Thyroid or parathyroid patients who require a surgical opinion benefit from Dr Cohen’s close collaboration with a very experienced thyroid surgical team.  Dr Cohen qualified in medicine from the University of Birmingham in 1994 with a 1st class honours degree in Physiology.

    After becoming a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1998 he returned to London to become a Medical Research Council Clinical Research Fellow at Hammersmith Hospital under the supervision of Professor Steve Bloom. His original research on the role of the gut hormones PYY, oxyntomodulin and ghrelin in the regulation of food intake culmunated in a PhD in Physiology, awarded in 2005.  Obesity surgery is believed to act through alterations in the release of these appetite-regulating hormones. Dr Cohen was appointed Consultant in Endocrinology and Diabetes at Barnet Hospital in 2006 and continues to have a specialist interest in the clinical management of obesity.

    Personal profile:

    Dr Cohen is married (to a dietitian) and has two young children (aged 3 and 6 yrs).  He spent his childhood in Potters Bar and went to school in Elstree. Dr Cohen’s many interests include tennis, skiing, ice-skating, music and theatre, art-house films, modern art and design, 20th century furniture and technological gadgets!

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