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Dr. Neri M. Cohen is Chief of the Division of Thoracic surgery at GBMC Health Care Inc. and the driving force behind HealthTek Consulting, a healthcare consulting firm in Baltimore, MD. Prior to that, he was the Head of the Section of General Thoracic Surgery, Surgical Director of Lung Transplantation, Director of the Cardiovascular and Thoracic Residency Training Program and Chief of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Research at the Medical College of Virginia of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Dr. Cohen completed the Honors Masters program with a BA in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and an MS in Neurobiology & Physiology from Northwestern University. From there he went to the University of Maryland at Baltimore where he completed the Medical Scholars (combined MD/PhD) program with a PhD in Physiology & Biophysics, as well as postdoctoral fellowship research as an American Heart Association Research Fellow. Dr. Cohen is board certified in both General Surgery and Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Chest Physicians, and is a member of most major General Surgery, Surgical Research, Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Chest Medicine associations. He was awarded the Joel J Roslyn Faculty Research Award from the Association for Academic Surgery and continued a basic science research program on molecular biophysics of transplant organ failure and protection, carcinogenesis and mechanisms of cancer metastasis concurrent with his attending surgeon appointment at Virginia Commonwealth University. While maintaining an active thoracic surgery practice, he remains actively involved in both clinical trial research as an investigator for the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ACOSOG) and in clinical outcomes research doing basic computer modeling simulations to define 'best clinical practices' and performance metrics. | 