Medical Director
Integrative Medicine Fellowship Director
Primary Care Internal Medicine, Integrative Geriatrics, Functional Medicine, Integrative Palliative Care
Dr. Mikhail (Misha) Kogan is a leader in the newly-established field of Integrative Geriatrics. He is the chief editor of the first definitive textbook of the field entitled “Integrative Geriatric Medicine ”, published by Oxford University Press as part of Andrew Weil Integrative Medicine Library series and is frequent speaker at a variety of international conferences on the topics of Integrative Medicine and Geriatrics, healthy aging, and geriatrics, as well as neurodegenerative diseases.
He is also an author of a highly acclaimed book “Medical Marijuana: Dr. Kogan’s Evidence-Based Guide to the Health Benefits of Cannabis and CBD” published by Random House in 2021.
Dr. Kogan currently serves as Medical Director of the GW Center for Integrative Medicine and Associate Director of the Geriatrics Fellowship Program. He is the director of the Integrative Medicine Track program at the George Washington University School of Medicine, as well as serving as part-time faculty member of the George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health, and the GW Center for Aging, Health and Humanities.
In addition to his academic roles at George Washington University Dr. Kogan serves on a number of national boards and organizations including: the American Board of Integrative Medicine within the American Board of Physician Subspecialists (ABPS), PlantMed, and others. Dr Kogan is also the founder and the chair of the board of AIM Health Institute, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that provides integrative medicine services to low-income and terminally ill patients.
For Dr. Mikhail Kogan, the practice of medicine, much like the rest of his life, has been a journey spanning many miles and many cultures, with valuable new learning and different perspectives accruing from each stage along the way. Those many experiences – here and abroad, in the classroom and the clinic, professionally and personally – have given Dr. Kogan the skills, , openness, and inquisitiveness that set him apart, and distinguish him as a committed and caring practitioner within integrative medicine.
Born in Moscow, in the former Soviet Union, Dr. Kogan emigrated with his family in his teens, first to Israel,and then to the United States, where he obtained his medical degree from the Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He followed a Primary Care and Social Medicine Track residency in Internal Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, and a fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., which led to a position as an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care.
In addition to his training in conventional Western medicine, Dr. Kogan has actively pursued a number of other healing arts and practices that have shaped his understanding of and approach to patient care. He is a graduate of a two-year training course in Biodynamic Cranio-sacral therapy–a subtle osteopathic modality that has a wide range of effectiveness for different conditions such as headaches, back pains, and fatigue. He has also completed a four-year program at the Suluk Academy, a teaching center based on the principles and traditions of Sufism, where he learned how to incorporate meditation, mindfulness, and different spiritual practices into his daily life and his work with the patients. Among his many other areas of study are courses in Nutrition, therapeutic use of vitamins, Functional Medicine, botanicals, medical cannabis and other modalities.
Weaving those tools into the fabric of his medical practice has enabled Dr. Kogan to provide innovative and effective treatments to his patients with minimal use of invasive procedures or heavy reliance on medications and to understand the importance of self-exploration, awareness and positive lifestyle changes as essential milestones on his patients’ journeys towards better health. Dr. Kogan is dedicated to helping patients with Alzheimer’s disease identify and correct underlying metabolic drivers work, which is primarily based on Dr. Dale Bredesen’s research and newly created ReCode protocol.
Dr. Kogan practices Geriatric and Integrative Medicine in a variety of settings: at the George Washington Hospital, at the GW Center for Integrative medicine, as well as serving patients in home visits.
Outside of the clinic Dr. Kogan, together and his wife Angela, an acupuncturist at GWCIM, stay busy raising teenage sons Peter and Sebastian. True to his calling as an integrative practitioner, his leisure time is replete with healthy lifestyle activities that nourish both body and spirit : he enjoys vigorous exercise, frequent nature walks with his family and dogs, mind body practices such as weekly Meditation classes, beekeeping and gardening.
Testimonials:
“Dear Dr.Kogan,
Please consider this a note of thanks, rather than a letter to be read into my file. I’m sleeping, pretty much every night, often all the way through the night, and it has changed my life — so thank you for the time you have taken to evaluate my family and personal medical history, our discussions, your theory about a genetic mutation that might be contributing to my sleeplessness, and your suggestion for remedies.
It truly has been years since I have slept comfortably on a regular basis, and I can’t tell you the number of doctors to whom I have noted this problem. Sleeplessness has made me constantly exhausted, not clear in my thinking or speaking, anxious, irritable, and very often, just not a nice person. I cannot tell you what a difference this simple fix – as you put it – has made in my life. So, thank you again, you have helped make me a new person, for which I thank you virtually every day! – Gratefully, Carelee P.”
