Dr. Cohn is a board-certified general surgeon who obtained his M.D. degree from Columbia College of Physicians Medical School, completed his residency at the Harvard-Deaconess Surgical Service, and performed fellowships in endocrine and oncologic surgery at the Karolinska Hospital and at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, respectively. He was Assistant Professor of Surgery at SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn and later moved to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center as Associate Professor of Surgery and Chief of Surgical Oncology at the VA Hospital at White River Junction.
With the change in the medical economic climate, Dr. Cohn entered the MBA program of the Tuck School at Dartmouth and graduated June 1998. He worked initially as a consultant at Health Advances, assisting 6 firms to commercialize new products. At Cambridge Management Group, he led change-management initiatives for physicians at affiliated hospitals within the Yale New Haven, Banner Colorado, Cottage Santa Barbara, and Sutter Sacramento Health Systems. Dr. Cohn remains clinically active, covering surgical practices in New Hampshire and Vermont.
Dr. Cohn’s writing experience includes 40 published articles in peer-reviewed medical journals and a book, Better Communication for Better Care: Mastering Physician-Administration Collaboration, published by Health Administration Press, March 2005. He has written a sequel Collaborate for Success! Breakthrough Strategies for Engaging Physicians, Nurses, and Hospital Executive, published September 2006.
Dr. Cohn is the editor of The Business of Healthcare, a three-volume set, published December 2007 that comprises practice management, leading healthcare organizations, and improving systems of care. He is also the editor of Improving Physician Relations: A Field-Tested System, a multimedia distance learning program comprising topics such as engaging physicians to improve care, improving operating room throughput, dealing with disruptive physicians, and employing cutting-edge physician recruiting and retention strategies.
This speaker's topics include:
- Physician – Hospital Relations
- Collaboration
- Change Management
- Leadership
- Risk Management
Recent topics Dr. Cohn has been asked to present:
Kenneth H. Cohn, MD, MBA, FACS
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