Daniel P. Kohen, M.D.

Dr. Dan Kohen is the Director of the Developmental/Behavioral Pediatrics Program and Clinical Director of the KDWB University Pediatrics Family Center. He is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and has a joint appointment as Professor in the Department of Family Practice & Community Health. Dr. Kohen is Board Certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and by the American Board of Medical Hypnosis.

Dr. Kohen has been on the Faculty of the Department of Pediatrics for 26 years, helped to found and develop the Behavioral Pediatrics Program, then at Children's Hospital, Minneapolis, and has been at the University for 11 years. He sees patients daily in the Behavioral Pediatrics Program's general DBP clinic and self-regulation clinic. He is the Director of, and a major teacher in, the Resident Rotation training program in Developmental/Behavioral Pediatrics (one month in PL-1 year), and also directs and teaches the 3-year, ACGME accredited Fellowship Training Program in Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics.

Dr. Kohen's research interests include exploration of cyberphysiologic (self-regulatory) abilities in children and adolescents with headaches, Tourette Syndrome, children with sleep disorders, and in the ability of children to learn and utilize self-hypnosis to alter and regulate physiologic functions. He is currently completing a study of 178 consecutive children and adolescents with headaches treated with self-hypnosis training. Dr. Kohen teaches clinical hypnosis skills workshops throughout the United States and around the world and his efforts and publications also focus on best practices in clinical hypnosis education and training. He has over 50 publications in a variety of pediatric, hypnosis, and other scientific journals.