PRESCRIPTION FOR CHANGE:
UTMB HEALTH POLICY FORUM
Presented Wednesday, July 30,
2003
Health Policy Forum and Award Luncheon
Closing Medicine's Diversity Gap
Jordan
J. Cohen, M.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Association of American Medical Colleges
and the inaugural William C. Levin Lecturer on Health Care and Diversity
Jordan J. Cohen, M.D.
 As
President and Chief Executive Officer of the Association of American Medical
Colleges (AAMC), Jordan J. Cohen, M.D. leads the Association's support and
service to the nation's medical schools and teaching hospitals. The
Washington-based association was founded in 1876, and represents all 126
U.S. medical schools, nearly 400 major teaching hospitals, 98 academic and
research societies, and more than 160,000 U.S. medical students and
residents.
His almost 40-year career in academic medicine has included positions at
some of the most prestigious institutions in the country. Most recently, 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. In his six-year administration at Stony Brook, Dr.
Cohen fostered the Medical Center's development as a regional health care
provider and launched an innovative model curriculum that emphasized the
changing role of medicine in modern society.
Prior to serving as dean at SUNY-Stony Brook, 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. He has held
medical faculty positions at Harvard, Brown, and Tufts universities. Dr.
Cohen is also a former president of the medical staff at the New England
Medical Center Hospital in Boston.
He has held a wide variety of leadership positions in almost all aspects
of academic medicine, including chair of the American Board of Internal
Medicine and of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, as
well as president of the Association of Program Directors of Internal
Medicine. A member of the American College of Physicians since 1978, he has
served as vice chair of its Board of Regents and chair of its Education
Policy Committee; he was awarded a mastership from the college in 1993.
Concurrent with his leadership of the AAMC, Dr. Cohen also serves on the
Board of Directors of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation of New York, the
American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the Foundation for
Biomedical Research, the China Medical Board, National Medical Fellowships,
the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science & Community Development and
Research!America. He is a Trustee of the Educational Commission for Foreign
Medical Graduates and a member of the Special Medical Advisory Group of the
Department of Veterans Affairs. In 1994, Dr. Cohen was named a member of the
National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine.
He 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 completed a fellowship in nephrology
at the Tufts-New England Medical Center. His chief areas of research
interest are acid-base metabolism and renal physiology. He is the author of
more than 100 publications and is editor of Kidney International's
Nephrology Forum.
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