Jenny Cohen, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine
After graduating from UC Berkeley, she completed medical school and Internal Medicine residency at UCSF. She spent five years working as a Primary Care Physician at the county hospital in Oakland where she served as the Associate Medical Director of the clinic and more recently was the Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer for Alameda Health System.
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Dr. Cohen is passionate about patient-centered evidence-based care, ensuring that all patients – including the most vulnerable- can access high-quality care, and using technology to improve patient care.
Currently she sees patients at the San Francisco VA Women’s Clinic where she also teaches the residents, has a primary care telehealth practice at the Yuba City VA Outpatient Clinic, and works with the other members of the Boost Team to serve our rural women Veterans. She is also core faculty UCSF's Clinical Informatics Fellowship program and the Site Director for the UCSF Internal Medicine Residency Rotation at the San Francisco VA Women's Clinic.
In her spare time, she loves rock climbing and when she is not working, can often be found in Yosemite, Tuolumne, and Tahoe.
Awards
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- Veteran's Choice Care Award, Northern California VA, 2022
- Biggest Impact Award, Women’s Health Field Leaders Conference 2022 Poster Competition, VA, 2022
- Alameda Health System VP of Quality's Life Saver Award system-wide hypertension and cancer screening, Alameda Health System, 2018
- UCSF Emergency Medicine Department’s Medicine Consultant of the Year Award, UCSF, 2015
- Elected to AOA, UCSF, 2012
Education & Training
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- Residency Internal Medicine University of California, San Francisco/UCPC 2016
- MD Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2013
- MPH Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of California, Berkeley 2012
- BA Molecular Cell Biology/Immunology University of California, Berkeley 2007
Websites
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Grants and Projects
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- SERVICE Act and Cancer Navigation Support. Funding will be used to support validation of Office of Quality and Patient Safety’s SERVICE Act Dashboard and outreach and counseling to women in need of additional breast cancer screening., Office of Health Equity, 2024
- Improving the Wellbeing of Women Veterans Through Virtual Cancer Support Groups: A Quality Improvement Pilot, THRIVE/HSR/ORH, 2023-2024
- Boost 2.0, Office of Rural Health, 2022-2023
- Boost Team: Patient Education and Outreach, Office of Health Equity, 2022
- Tech Advocates, CCA Digital Divide Learning Collaborative, 2020-2021
Publications (12)
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Paging the Clinical Informatics Community: Respond STAT to Dobbs v. Jackson's Women's Health Organization.
Applied clinical informatics 2022 Arvisais-Anhalt S, Ravi A, Weia B, Aarts J, Ahmad HB, Araj E, Bauml JA, Benham-Hutchins M, Boyd AD, Brecht-Doscher A, Butler-Henderson K, Butte AJ, Cardilo AB, Chilukuri N, Cho MK, Cohen JK, Craven CK… -
No Ifs, Ands, or Buts: Leveraging Population Health to Focus on the Care of Patients Who Smoke.
Journal of medical education and curricular development 2017 Cohen JK, Bakamjian A, Leng L, Adhikari M, Flattery D, Berry L -
The late presenting STEMI: How ECG scores can be used to estimate event time.
Journal of electrocardiology 2016 Loring Z, Cohen JK, Morgan J, Yang J, Zimmet J -
Nationwide increase in hospitalizations for heroin-related soft tissue infections: Associations with structural market conditions.
Drug and alcohol dependence 2016 Ciccarone D, Unick GJ, Cohen JK, Mars SG, Rosenblum D -
Regular clinic attendance in two large San Francisco HIV primary care settings.
AIDS care 2015 Cohen JK, Santos GM, Moss NJ, Coffin PO, Block N, Klausner JD
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WHO guidelines for HIV/STI prevention and care among MSM and transgender people: implications for policy and practice.
Sexually transmitted infections 2013 Cohen J, Lo YR, Caceres CF, Klausner JD, WHO guideline working group -
Pheochromocytoma crisis resulting in acute heart failure and cardioembolic stroke in a 37-year-old man.
Surgery 2013 Cohen JK, Cisco RM, Scholten A, Mitmaker E, Duh QY -
Pheochromocytoma crisis is not a surgical emergency.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism 2013 Scholten A, Cisco RM, Vriens MR, Cohen JK, Mitmaker EJ, Liu C, Tyrrell JB, Shen WT, Duh QY -
Acceptability of Fingerprint Scanning for Personal Identification Among Patients
Seeking HIV/STI-related services, Los Angeles, 2011
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2012 Cohen JK, Flynn R, Boylan R, Klausner JD -
Acceptability of fingerprint scanning for personal identification among patients seeking HIV/STI-related services, Los Angeles, 2011.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2012 Cohen JK, Flynn R, Bolan R, Klausner JD -
Interaction with amyloid beta peptide compromises the lipid binding function of apolipoprotein E.
Biochemistry 2008 Tamamizu-Kato S, Cohen JK, Drake CB, Kosaraju MG, Drury J, Narayanaswami V -
Structure-guided protein engineering modulates helix bundle exchangeable apolipoprotein properties.
The Journal of biological chemistry 2003 Kiss RS, Weers PM, Narayanaswami V, Cohen J, Kay CM, Ryan RO