Ellen Cohen, MD

Dr. Ellen Cohen has been Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center since November 2002.  A graduate of Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Cohen received her undergraduate education at Hampshire College and the University of Massachusetts.  She is board certified in Internal Medicine, having trained in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Saint Vincent's Medical Center in New York City in the 1980's.

Before taking over leadership of the residency program at Newark Beth Israel, Dr. Cohen spent over 15 years as a faculty member at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, where she played a leadership role in Graduate Medical Education in the Department of Medicine.  Her major roles in the department there included those of Associate Director of the Primary Care Internal Medicine residency, and Director of Ambulatory Medical Education.

Dr. Cohen is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and has been active in several committees of the Society of General Internal Medicine.  Major areas of interest in research and clinical education include preventive medicine and screening, women's health, and physician-patient communication, with an over-arching commitment to integrating the development of critical-reasoning skills into all aspects of clinical training for the house staff.

She is the Medical Director of the Legal Assistance for Medical Patients (LAMP) and is on the Medical Advisory Board for the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership.