Debbie Stein (Cohen)

Debbie (Cohen) Stein

Debbie Cohen is a Professor of Medicine and faculty member of Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a nephrologist and runs the research and clinical hypertension programs and is Director of the Neuroendocrine Pheochromocytoma/ Paraganglioma Program at Penn. Her areas of interest include complex hypertension and chronic kidney disease.

Prof. Cohen, MD, FASN graduated from the University of Witwatersrand in 1990. She completed her internship at Hillbrow Hospital and completed her internal medicine residency at Albert Einstein Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and then completed her nephrology fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania where she been on faculty since 2000.

She has authored over 150 research manuscripts as well as multiple book chapters on hypertension and chronic kidney disease. She has lectured extensively and presented at multiple medical conferences in the United States and internationally including in Europe, Asia, South Africa, Israel, and the United Kingdom.

She enjoys her academic career and spends half her time doing research funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) and by industry. She enjoys teaching and mentoring trainees. She has 4 sons and has managed to balance her work life with raising her 4 boys. She is married to a South African physician whom she met in medical school at Wits.