Journal of Pain & Relief
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Ronald L. Cowan

Professor of Psychiatry Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Professor of Psychology

Biography

Ronald L. Cowan is presently M.D. of Cornell University Medical College completed his Ph.D from University of Tennessee Center for Health Science, He completed his B.S. from Christian Brothers University. Dr.Ronald Cowan has been a member of the faculty since 2002. Dr. Cowan is a graduate of the Weill Cornell Medical School. He completed his internship in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School and a residency in adult psychiatry at The McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center with a focus on in vivo intracellular neurophysiology of neocortex. Dr. Cowan is the Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Adult Residency Training program. Prior to his current roles, Dr. Cowan served as a course co-director for the first year medical school's neuroscience course (Brain and Behavior) and as the third year psychiatry clerkship director. Dr. Cowan's research program focuses on neuroimaging of disorders of motivated behavior, including substance use disorders, obesity, sexual addiction, and pain.

Research Interest

Clinical Interests Adult psychiatry; LGBTI psychiatry; Consultation Liaison Psychiatry; Depression; Anxiety; Obesity Research Interests Reward circuitry, Monoamine circuitry, Neuroimaging, Neurophysiology, Substance Use, Obesity, Sexual Addiction, Pain

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