Dr. Steven Cohen is a plastic surgeon, inventor, author and entrepreneur. Dr. Cohen is recognized as one of the top plastic surgeons in the United States by U.S. News and World Report, Castle Connolly and Best Doctors, Inc. Dr. Cohen did his general surgery residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Hanover New Hampshire. He completed a fellowship in cardiac surgery at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. After extensive basic surgical training, Dr. Cohen completed his plastic surgery at the University of Pennsylvania and went on to do a fellowship in craniofacial and facial plastic surgery at UCLA under the mentorship of Dr. Henry Kawamoto. Dr. Cohen has been involved in the plastic surgery training program at the University of California, San Diego, where he serves as Clinical Professor and directs the Craniofacial Fellowship and co-directs the Aesthetic Surgery Fellowship. Dr. Cohen has authored over 150 publications in the medical literature and has been an invited surgeon and lecturer throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. He has served on the editorial board of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, the Annals of Plastic Surgery, the Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal and presently is on the editorial board of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Dr. Cohen inventions in distraction osteogenesis (marketed as the MID Distractor System by Stryker, Inc.) are the basis for most of the internal devices used throughout the world for children with severe craniofacial deformities. Dr. Cohen is a founder of LeonardoMD, a web based, fully integrated medical software, which was one of the earliest “cloud” computing companies in the medical space. In addition to his clinical practice in Aesthetic and Craniofacial Surgery, he provides consulting services for a number of biotechnology companies and concerns. Dr. Cohen is an artist whose works have been shown in galleries and are in a number of private collections. Dr. Cohen has had a long term interest in regenerative medicine, performing the first adipocyte derived stem cell fat transfers in the world in 2003. He recently founded the Cell Society along with Dr. Marc Hedrick of Cytori Therapeutics, to help educate the public as well as physicians and industry about new advances in cell therapy and regenerative medicine.