Professor Richard Cohen is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at University College London Hospital. He is Professor of Surgery in the Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, Faculty of Medical Sciences at University College London.
He is also Clinical Professor of Surgery at The Cleveland Clinic Lerner School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. He is Chief of Surgery, Medical Director (Deputy) and Chair of the Institute of Digestive Diseases and Surgery at Cleveland Clinic London.
Professor Cohen has done research over many years in various fields within Colorectal Surgery and lectured widely around the world. He has published extensively and has a Scopus H-Index of 33.
His current areas of research include epigenetics in Crohn’s disease and microvesicles in colorectal cancer.
Selected publications from PubMed
Circulating tumour DNA in patients with colorectal cancer undergoing curative-intent LIver MEtastases Surgery in France: a prospective, multicentre GERCOR G-118 CLIMES PRODIGE 77 cohort study protocol.
Meskauskas A, Cohen R, Vernerey D, Bachet JB, Lacroix L, Laurent-Puig P, Paye F, Di Fiore F, Boige V, Garcia-Larnicol ML, Evrard C, Goumard C, Gelli M
BMJ Open. 2026 Jun 30;16(6):e113687 doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-113687.
Neoadjuvant pembrolizumab with a watch‑and‑wait strategy for localized MSI/dMMR colon cancer: Study protocol for a randomized GERCOR 109 - PRODIGE 84 phase II trial (PREMICES).
Lefevre JH, Dubreuil O, Colle R, Tougeron D, Vienot A, Dupré A, Toullec C, Smith D, Guimbaud R, Chibaudel B, Garcia Larnicol ML, Vernerey D, Cohen R, PREMICES Study Group
Dig Liver Dis. 2026 Jan;58(1):51-55 doi: 10.1016/j.dld.2025.11.003.
Non-metastatic colon cancer: French Intergroup Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatments, and follow-up (TNCD, SNFGE, FFCD, GERCOR, UNICANCER, SFCD, SFED, SFRO, ACHBT, SFP, AFEF, and SFR).
Lecomte T, Tougeron D, Chautard R, Bressand D, Bibeau F, Blanc B, Cohen R, Jacques J, Lagasse JP, Laurent-Puig P, Lepage C, Lucidarme O, Martin-Babau J, Panis Y, Portales F, Taieb J, Aparicio T, Bouché O, Thésaurus National de Cancérologie Digestive (TNCD), Société Nationale Française de Gastroentérologie (SNFGE), Fédération Francophone de Cancérologie Digestive (FFCD), Groupe Coopérateur multidisciplinaire en Oncologie (GERCOR), Fédération Nationale des Centres de Lutte Contre le Cancer (UNICANCER), Société Française de Chirurgie Digestive (SFCD), Société Française d'Endoscopie Digestive (SFED), Société Française de Radiothérapie Oncologique (SFRO), Association de Chirurgie Hépato-Bilio-Pancréatique et Transplantation (ACHBT), Société Française de Pathologie (SFP), Association Française pour l’Étude du Foie (AFEF), Société Française de Radiologie (SFR)
Dig Liver Dis. 2024 May;56(5):756-769 doi: 10.1016/j.dld.2024.01.208.
Adjuvant chemotherapy improves survival amongst octogenarians following resection of colorectal adenocarcinoma.
Fernando D, Hanna J, Cohen R, Ryan J
ANZ J Surg. 2024 Feb;94(1-2):181-186 doi: 10.1111/ans.18715.
Digging into the Histology.
Paknikar R, Alpert L, Cohen RD, Shogan B, Micic D
N Engl J Med. 2023 Oct 5;389(14):1321-1326 doi: 10.1056/NEJMcps2304154.
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