Jordan Cohen

MD

President Emeritus, Assoc. of Amer. Med.

Jordan J. Cohen, MD is professor of medicine and public health at George Washington University and president emeritus of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). 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.

As President and Chief Executive Officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) from 1994 to 2006, Jordan J. Cohen, MD led the Association’s support and service to the nation’s medical schools and teaching hospitals. He launched new initiatives in each of the association’s mission areas of education, research and patient care; expanded and modernized the AAMC’s services for medical students, applicants, residents, and constituents; strengthened the association’s communications, advocacy, and data gathering efforts, and established many initiatives for improving medical education and clinical care. As the voice of academic medicine for more than a decade, Dr. Cohen also spoke extensively on the need to promote greater racial and ethnic diversity in medicine, to uphold professional and scientific values, and to transform the nation’s health care system.