The Link Between Environmental Toxins and Autoimmune Disease with Aly Cohen

By Integrative Practitioner Staff

Aly Cohen, MD, FACR, joins Integrative Practitioner Content Specialist Avery St. Onge to discuss the relationship between environmental toxins and autoimmune disease and strategies to reduce toxic exposures.

This episode is brought to you by the Integrative Healthcare Symposium.

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Aly Cohen, MD, FACR, is triple board-certified in rheumatology, internal medicine, and integrative medicine, as well as an environmental health expert in Princeton, New Jersey. She is on faculty of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine  (AIHM), where she created and manages the environmental medicine curriculum for medical colleagues. Dr. Cohen has collaborated with the Environmental Working Group, Cancer Schmancer, and other disease- prevention or­ganizations, and is coeditor of the textbook, Integrative Environmental Medicine, part of the Oxford University Press/Weil Integrative Medicine, Academic Series. In 2015, she created TheSmartHuman.com to share environ­mental health, disease prevention, and wellness information with the public. She lectures nationally on environmental health topics for el­ementary/ high schools, colleges/ universities, medical schools, and physician- training programs, and she is a regular expert guest for tele­vision, print, and podcasts. She is a legal medical expert for toxic tort environmental exposure cases. She has been the recipient of countless awards, including Top Docs NJ in rheumatology from 2016-2023, Top Docs New York Magazine 2023, Top Docs Philadelphia and New York Magazines 2023, Exceptional Women in Medicine 2020-2023, the NJ Healthcare Heroes Award in Education for The Smart Human educational platform in 2015, and the 2016 Burton L. Eichler Award for humanitarianism.