Alexander Li Cohen, MD, PhD

Dr. Cohen is a physician-scientist and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. In addition to his work with ARIA, he is also the Director of the Data Organization Collaborative Service for the Rosamund Stone Zander Hansjoerg Wyss Translational Neuroscience Center at BCH. In these capacities, he oversees large-scale data integration and harmonization efforts to accelerate discovery in Autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.

Dr. Cohen received his B.A. in Biology and Biomedical Physics and his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, completed residency training in pediatrics and child neurology at Mayo Clinic and clinical and postdoctoral research fellowships at Boston Children’s Hospital. He has been a member of the faculty at BCH since 2018 and currently sees patients within the Brain, Mind, and Behavior Center and the Autism Spectrum Center.

As Director of the Laboratory of Translational Neuroimaging, his research focuses on bedside-to-bedside translation: leveraging lesion network mapping and pharmaco-fMRI to identify the causal neural circuits underlying symptoms of autism and ADHD that could serve as targets for non-invasive neuromodulation, e.g., transcranial magnetic stimulation and real-time fMRI neurofeedback. His research has been supported by the NIMH, the Child Neurology Foundation, the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI), and the TSC Alliance.