Jon Cohen.Jon Cohen, MD, chief medical officer at The North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is running for New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State lieutenant governor. "After much discussion, thought and soul searching I have decided to run to become the next lieutenant governor of the State of New York," Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. said. "The reason is simple; the health care system is dysfunctional. This crisis of quality, cost and access is impacting on every low- and middle-class family, every small business, every large business, every hospital, every local county and just about every person who becomes ill and attempts to navigate through the system. It is the social problem of our generation and it is time to fix it." Cohen is a nationally recognized health care executive who has published over 100 peer review articles, two books and multiple book chapters. He is past president of both the New York Surgical Society and the New York Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, a prior Chairman of Surgery at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center Long Island Jewish Medical Center (LIJMC) shares the title of clinical and academic hub of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. It is an 827-bed voluntary, non-profit tertiary care teaching hospital serving the greater metropolitan New York area. and a member of the Society of University Surgeons and the American Surgical Association. His surgical residency was at the New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center, followed by vascular surgery training at the Brigham and Women's Hospital Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is a hospital in the Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill. With Massachusetts General Hospital, it is one of the two founding members of Partners HealthCare. , Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a prestigious American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. . Cohen, a lifelong New Yorker, grew up in Queens, and attended the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. public school system. As chief medical officer, Cohen is the health system's senior physician and is responsible for overall professional management of the clinical, education, research and quality of care issues related to all medical and clinical affairs of the health system. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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