Dr Bruce Cohen received his Medical Doctorate from the University of Illinois, Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, in Chicago, and completed his residency in Neurology at the Northwestern University Medical School McGaw Medical Center (now the Feinberg School of Medicine), following a residency in Internal Medicine. Dr Cohen is presently Professor of Neurology in the Davee Department of Neurology and Clinical Neurosciences at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, and is an attending neurologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Dr Cohen co-founded the Northwestern Comprehensive Multiple Sclerosis program in 1986 with Dr James Sliwa of the Shirley Ryan Ability Laboratory (formerly the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), which combined medical and rehabilitative therapies in an integrated disease specific treatment approach. He currently directs the Northwestern Comprehensive Multiple Sclerosis program at Northwestern Medicine, where he and his colleagues treat MS patients and engage in clinical research on disease manifestations and treatment approaches.
Dr Cohen is a member of the Multiple Sclerosis section of the American Academy of Neurology and served as its chair from 2008-2010. He has also worked with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society for many years and is a member and past chair of the Clinical Care Committee (2006-2009), recent chair of the National Medical Advisory Committee (2014-2018), and a member of the research programs advisory committee (2016-present) of the National MS Society, New York. He is also a past chair of the Professional Advisory Committee of the Chicago and Greater Illinois Chapter.
Dr Cohen has also done clinical research on neurological complications of AIDS. He was an investigator in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) and a member of the Neurological AIDS Research Consortium, where he directed the Northwestern University site and the NIH AIDS Clinical Trials Group, where he was a past chair of the Neurology subcommittee (2004-2005).
Dr Cohen is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, the American Neurological Association, and the American College of Physicians. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Dr Bainbridge serves as a clinical pharmacy specialist at the Anschutz Outpatient Pavilion in the Neurology Clinic, part of the Neurology Residency Teaching Program at the University of Colorado Denver. Services provided in these clinics include: review of patient information identifying and resolving drug-related problems and consultations; recommending alternative medication therapies for patients; evaluating patients for medication toxicity; offering cost-effective recommendations; providing education to health care practitioners, patients, and families; and monitoring for and reporting of drug interactions. Dr Bainbridge manages the care of patients with such neurologic disease states as epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, migraine, and Willis-Ekbom disease (restless legs syndrome). She is currently involved in research projects on epilepsy and multiple sclerosis, as well as several neuroprotection trials in Parkinson’s disease that are funded by the NIH.
Amy Perrin Ross, APN, MSN, CNRN, MSCN, is a board certified neuroscience nurse and the Neuroscience Program Coordinator at Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois. She obtained her BSN and MSN from Loyola University's Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing in Chicago. As an advanced practice nurse, she coordinates the multiple sclerosis clinic at Loyola University Medical Center. In her role at Loyola she has coordinated multiple clinical research trials in multiple sclerosis. She is a member of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers and serves as a past president of the International Organization of Multiple Sclerosis Nurses.
Ms Perrin Ross has authored numerous articles and book chapters on multiple sclerosis and dementia and currently serves as series editor for MS Counseling Points™. In addition, she is a clinical nurse consultant with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, a member of the Health Care Advisory Council for the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America, and a board member of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers. She has been an invited speaker at national and international meetings and conferences and has been very active in neuroscience clinical research for more than 20 years. She is also a recipient of the June Halper International MS Nursing Award from the IOMSN in recognition of her demonstrated excellence in MS nursing and commitment to MS patient care, education, creative interventions, research, advocacy, and leadership.