Harvey Jay Cohen, MD, currently serves in several professional roles at Duke University Medical Center in Durham , North Carolina , including Walter Kempner Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, and Director, Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development.

 

He received his medical degree, cum laude, from Downstate Medical College of The State University of New York (SUNY). He served his internship in medicine at Duke University Medical Center , where he was later a resident and a Fellow in Hematology-Oncology. He was also a staff associate for the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases.

 

Dr. Cohen serves on a number of prestigious national and international committees and boards. He is Chair, President’s Cabinet, and a member of both the Task Force on Research and the Task Force on Development for the Gerontological Society of America.  He co-chairs the Task Force on Cancer and Aging for the American Association for Cancer Research.  He is also a member of the International Association of Gerontology Governing Board, a Member of the Advisory Board of Clinical Geriatrics: A Clinical Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and a member, Board of Directors and President, International Society of Geriatric Oncology.  He is past President of both the American Geriatrics Society and the Gerontologic Society of America.

 

He is on the editorial board of Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences. He is also on the International Editorial Board of Geriatrics & Gerontology International and on the Editorial Advisory Board of both The American Journal of Geriatric Pharmacotherapy and Research News. Dr Cohen contributed articles to The American Journal of Medicine, Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and Journal of Clinical Oncology.  He is author of the book Taking Care After 50, and co-author of The Link Between Religion and Health: Psychoneuroimmunology and the Faith Factor.  In addition, Dr. Cohen is co-editor of Geriatric Medicine, 4th Edition.

 

Dr. Cohen is listed in Who’s Who in America , Who’s Who Among American’s Teachers, Who’s Who in Frontiers of Science and Technology, Who’s Who in Science, International Who’s Who in Medicine, American Men and Women of Science and Biography International. He has received “The Best Doctors in America ” award and the Joseph T. Freeman Award and the Kent Award from the Gerontological Society of America and the Jahnigen Memorial Award from the American Geriatrics Society. He has been awarded grants from the John A. Hartford Foundation for the Center of Excellence : Academic Geriatrics Recruitment Initiative, the National Institute on Aging and the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. 

 

Dr. Cohen has published extensively with over 250 articles and book chapters on topics in geriatrics and hematology/oncology, with special emphasis on aspects of cancer and immunologic disorders in the elderly, and geriatric assessment.   His current interests are geriatric assessment, biologic basis for functional decline, and cancer and hematologic malignancies in the elderly.