NEW YORK STATE — Gastroenterologist Jerome Craig Cohen, M.D., was recently elected president of the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) at its annual House of Delegates meeting in Uniondale.

Dr. Cohen previously served as president-elect, vice president, trustee and speaker of the House of Delegates of MSSNY. As speaker, his responsibilities included overseeing the policy-making business of the state’s principal professional organization for physicians as well as emceeing its official events, such as MSSNY’s annual Legislative Forum in Albany.

MSSNY represents the interests of patients and physicians in an ongoing effort to assure quality health care services for all New Yorkers, according to its website.

Dr. Cohen earned his medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School and completed both his internship and residency training at Northwestern Medical Center in Chicago. He is board-certified in both internal medicine and gastroenterology. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association.

Since 2015, he has been treating patients in Cooperstown for Bassett Healthcare Network, where he serves as a senior attending gastroenterologist. Dr. Cohen is also clinical assistant professor of medicine at the Cooperstown campus of Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Dr. Cohen is particularly concerned about New York State’s looming health care-access crisis. He is also a bio-terrorism first responder volunteer.

He and his wife Elaine Drelich, D.D.S., live in Loch Sheldrake.