A graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Sheldon Cohen has practiced internal medicine and served as a medical director of the Alexian Brother’s Medical Center of Northwest Suburban Chicago and as medical director of two managed care organizations: Cigna Health plan of Illinois and Humanicare Plus of Illinois. The author taught internal medicine and physical diagnosis to medical students from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine and the Chicago Medical School. Recognizing the fact that busy physicians are pressed for time and thus often fail to capture a thorough medical history, the author perfected one of the first computerized medical history systems for private practice and wrote a paper on his experience with 1, 500 patients who utilized the system. This was one of the early efforts in promoting electronic health records, a work in progress to this day. The author served as a consultant for joint commission resources of the joint commission on accreditation of health-care organizations, did quality consultations at hospitals in the United States, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Copenhagen, Denmark, and served as a consultant to the Ministry of Health in Ukraine, assisting them in the development of a hospital accrediting body.
Dr. Cohen is the author of twenty-six books.