Alfred M. Cohen

Dr. Alfred M. Cohen joined the department of surgery at the University of Arizona in 2009 as a Clinical Professor of Surgery in the Section of Surgical Oncology and Surgical Director of the Arizona Cancer Center. Dr. Cohen received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and completed his general surgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He obtained surgical oncology and laboratory research training at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda. He joined the University of Arizona faculty after leaving the University of Kentucky where he held the position of Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Lucille P. Markey Cancer Center. In addition, he was interim Executive Vice-President for Health Affairs at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Cohen was Chief of Colorectal Surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York for 15 years and Director of the Colorectal Cancer Disease Management Team. Prior to that, he was Co-Director of Surgical Oncology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He has published 300 articles, reviews, and book chapters. He has been the Principal Investigator of many clinical trials in the treatment of colorectal cancer and was the Chair of the Colorectal Cancer program for the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group. He is a past President of the Society of Surgical Oncology, the New York Clinical Society, and Chair of the Commission on Cancer at the American College of Surgeons.