Dr. Ronald Cohn has served as President and CEO of the Hospital for Sick Children since May 1st, 2019. Dr. Cohn joined SickKids in 2012 as Chief of the Division of Clinical and Metabolic Genetics, Co-Director of the Centre for Genetic Medicine, and Senior Scientist, Research Institute.
Dr. Cohn received his medical degree from the University of Essen, Germany. After his postdoctoral fellowship at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, he became the first combined resident in paediatrics and genetics at Johns Hopkins University. He subsequently joined the faculty of the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins as director of the worlds’ first multidisciplinary centre for Hypotonia. Dr. Cohn was also the director of the medical genetics residency program at Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Cohn has developed an interest in Precision Child Health. His research focusses on implementing genome editing technologies for the treatment of neurogenetic disorders in children.