Sheldon Cohen was born on October 11,1947 and is the Robert E Doherty University Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University.
14 Facts About Sheldon Cohen
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Sheldon Cohen is the director of the Laboratory for the Study of Stress, Immunity and Disease.
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Sheldon Cohen is a member of the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon and adjunct professor of Psychiatry and of Pathology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
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Sheldon Cohen was Assistant to associate professor of psychology at the University of Oregon from 1973 through 1982, and has been a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University since 1982.
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Sheldon Cohen was named the Robert E Doherty Professor of Psychology in 2003.
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Sheldon Cohen was a member of the core groups of the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health and of the Fetzer Institute's Working Group on Psychosocial Factors in Asthma, and served as chair of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Planning Group on Social Connectedness and Health.
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Sheldon Cohen was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2004.
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Sheldon Cohen has received the National Institute of Mental Health's Research Scientist Development, and Senior Scientist Awards.
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Sheldon Cohen was an American Psychological Association Distinguished Lecturer, and a British Psychological Association Senior Fellow Lecturer.
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Sheldon Cohen's paper entitled "Social Support, Stress and the Buffering Hypothesis" was named a Current Contents Citation Classic; in 2003 he was named one of Science's Most Cited Authors by the Institute for Scientific Information.
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Sheldon Cohen's work focuses on the roles of stress, emotions, social support systems and personality in health and well-being.
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Sheldon Cohen published pioneering theoretical and empirical work on the effects of aircraft noise on health and development of schoolchildren, and on the roles of stress and social networks in physical and mental health.
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Sheldon Cohen is involved in studies of the effects of psychosocial factors on the onset and progression of asthma, and on the effectiveness of social support interventions in facilitating psychological adjustment and disease progression in women with breast cancer.
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Sheldon Cohen's research has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and the American Journal of Public Health in addition to other medical, public health, and sociology journals as well as in numerous psychology journals.