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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