Dr. Cohen is a vascular surgeon having completed his residency in surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and vascular surgery fellowship at the Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed professional articles and authored two books. In 2010, he was named as one the nation's top 50 most powerful physician executives by Modern Healthcare.[1] He is past President of both the New York Surgical Society and the New York Society for Cardiovascular Surgery.