Dr. Michael H. Cohen is an Internist with a special interest in Cardiology. He earned the rank of Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York City in 1990. Dr. Cohen entered medical school at the age of 19 having been selected to the Accelerated Program at the Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, Maryland. He completed his Internship/Residency training at the New York Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia University and was chosen to serve as Chief Resident of Medicine.

Dr. Cohen has special expertise in congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, hypertension, coronary bypass surgery, and coronary angioplasty and stenting. Dr. Cohen has been lauded as a “top doctor” by many organizations.

Aside from patient care, Dr. Cohen teaches medical and cardiology trainees in the Coronary Care Unit of the Columbia University Medical Center and served as a Chief of Service at the NY Heart Institute of CUMC.

He has developed for Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons a Senior Year Course using Masters of Clinical Medicine to demonstrate "Bedside Clinical Reasoning." Dr. Cohen has devoted his career in medicine to diagnosing and healing those who are ill as well as helping them to maintain the best of health and teaches medical students and house staff trainees at CUMC how to deliver the best and most humane of medical care. He prides himself in being the "Captain of the Ship" to all patients under his care.