Jordan J. Cohen, M.D.

Jordan J. Cohen, M.D., professor of medicine and public health at George Washington University and president emeritus of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), has been selected to receive the 2008 Richard and Barbara Hansen Leadership Award and Distinguished Lectureship. He is a Director of the Washington Advisory Group and also serves as chairman of the board of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine.

Dr. Cohen presented the Hansen Distinguished Lecture at the 30th Annual Iowa Healthcare Executive Symposium on Friday, October 17, 2008.

Biographical Information

Prior to his leadership of the AAMC, he served as dean of the medical school and professor of medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and president of the medical staff at University Hospital. Before that, Dr. Cohen was professor and associate chairman of Medicine at the University of Chicago-Pritzker School of Medicine, and physician-in-chief and chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center.

Dr. Cohen currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation of New York, the Morehouse School of Medicine, the National Medical Fellowships, the National Library of Medicine, and the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science Community Development. He is a former chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine and of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and served as president of the Association of Program Directors of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Cohen is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Medical School and completed his postgraduate training in internal medicine on the Harvard service at the Boston City Hospital. He also completed a fellowship in nephrology at the Tufts-New England Medical Center. He has authored more than 100 publications and is a former editor of Kidney International’s Nephrology Forum.

Lecture Video

“The Need to Fundamentally Reform America’s Health Care Delivery System”