Newswise — Jordan J. Cohen, MD, president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges, will address University of Colorado School of Medicine graduates during the school's May 26 hooding and oath ceremony.
Cohen will speak to 126 graduates receiving medical degrees during the ceremony, which will begin at 10 a.m. on the quadrangle of the UCDHSC Ninth Avenue campus in Denver. University of Colorado President Hank Brown, a former U.S. senator from Colorado, will speak to all University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center graduates during the main commencement the same day. UCDHSC's five health sciences schools include medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry and graduate school.
For more than a decade, Cohen has led the Washington, D.C.-based AAMC, which was founded in 1876 and represents all 125 accredited U.S. and 17 Canadian medical schools, nearly 400 major teaching hospitals, 94 academic and scientific societies, 109,000 faculty members, and more than 170,000 U.S. medical students and residents.
Cohen has had a distinguished career of more than 40 years in academic medicine. 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 SUNY's University Hospital.
He also has held medical faculty positions at Harvard, Brown and Tufts universities, and is a former president of the medical staff at the Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. He 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.
A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Medical School, Cohen completed an internal medicine residency at Boston City Hospital and a fellowship in nephrology at Tufts-NEMC. 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.
Faculty at the University of Colorado School of Medicine work to advance science and improve care as physicians, educators and scientists at University of Colorado Hospital, The Children's Hospital, Denver Health Medical Center, National Jewish Medical and Research Center and the Veterans Administration Medical Center. The School is part of the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, one of three campuses in the University of Colorado system. For more information, visit the Web site at www.uchsc.edu or the UCDHSC Newsroom at http://www.uchsc.edu/news.
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