Aly Cohen MD, FACR

Expert Summary / Professional Overview

Dr. Aly Cohen, MD, FACR, is a board-certified rheumatologist and board-certified integrative medicine physician with over two decades of clinical experience and specialized expertise in environmental health and toxic chemical exposures. She evaluates the potential health effects of environmental and occupational exposures using evidence-based medical, toxicological, and epidemiologic principles.

Dr. Cohen’s work focuses on the assessment of chemical exposures—including endocrine-disrupting chemicals, industrial contaminants, persistent organic pollutants, and drinking water contaminants—and their potential associations with immune-mediated, inflammatory, and systemic health outcomes. Her expertise includes evaluation of exposure pathways, biologic plausibility, dose-response relationships, latency considerations, and interpretation of human, animal, and mechanistic data within accepted scientific frameworks.

She applies established methodologies to address issues of general and specific causation through comprehensive review of peer-reviewed literature, regulatory and consensus reports, and clinical records. Dr. Cohen does not offer opinions beyond the limits of available scientific evidence and explicitly acknowledges uncertainties and limitations where they exist.

Dr. Cohen has served as a medical expert in environmental exposure litigation since 2012, including cases involving industrial chemical releases and community-level exposures. She has experience with medical record review, expert reporting, deposition testimony, and trial testimony.

She holds academic faculty appointments with the University of California–Irvine Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute, the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine, and Southern California University of Health Sciences. She has authored and co-edited peer-reviewed publications and academic textbooks in environmental health and rheumatology, including works published by Oxford University Press and in Environmental Health Perspectives.

Areas of Expertise / Testimony

• Environmental and occupational health
• Toxic chemical and environmental exposures
• Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs)
• PFAS and persistent organic pollutants
• Drinking water contamination
• Industrial chemical releases
• Consumer product chemical exposures
• Immune-mediated and inflammatory disease
• Autoimmune conditions
• Rheumatologic disease and environmental factors
• General causation analysis
• Specific causation analysis
• Exposure pathways and biologic plausibility
• Dose-response and latency assessment
• Interpretation of biomonitoring data
• Medical record review
• Literature review and synthesis
• Regulatory and consensus report interpretation

Litigation / Expert Experience

Medical expert in environmental exposure and toxic tort matters since 2012, including cases involving industrial chemical releases and community exposure events. Experience includes medical record review, scientific literature analysis, expert report preparation, deposition testimony, and trial testimony.

Academic Appointments

• Faculty, University of California–Irvine Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute
• Faculty, Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine
• Faculty, Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine
• Faculty, Southern California University of Health SciencesBoard Certifications
• Board Certified, Rheumatology
• Board Certified, Integrative Medicine
• Publications

Author and co-editor of peer-reviewed journal articles and academic textbooks addressing environmental health, rheumatology, and integrative medicine, including publications with Oxford University Press (Integrative Environmental medicine OUP 2020) and Environmental Health Perspectives.

Engagement Preferences

• Plaintiff-side matters only

• Environmental exposure and toxic tort litigation

  Availability

Available for case review, expert reporting, deposition testimony, and trial testimony.