Jeff Cohn

Jeff Cohn is a physician leader, hematologist/oncologist, and certified coach specializing in leadership and mental fitness. With decades of clinical, executive, and coaching experience, Jeff helps physicians and healthcare professionals strengthen resilience, foster positivity, and navigate the challenges of modern healthcare.

Jeff Cohn

Role in Medicine Forward

Jeff Cohn has played a pivotal role in shaping Medicine Forward’s vision and leadership culture. His contributions include:

• Executive Leadership: Served in Medicine Forward’s executive leadership team, guiding organizational development and supporting physician advocacy initiatives.
• Board Transition: In 2025, Jeff transitioned from an executive role into a continuing Board Member position, ensuring ongoing strategic and governance support.
• Mentorship and Coaching: Leveraged his background in leadership coaching to provide guidance to Medicine Forward members, fostering resilience and mental well-being across the organization.
• Narrative Advocacy: Offered insights on Medicine Forward’s documentary work, emphasizing the importance of telling positive, diverse, and human-centered stories in healthcare.
• Current Role: Jeff serves as a Board Member and Advisor at Medicine Forward, continuing to influence its direction while mentoring healthcare leaders.

Background and Advocacy

Beyond Medicine Forward, Jeff Cohn has built a career at the intersection of medicine, leadership, and coaching:

• Care to Change Coaching: Leadership and Mental Fitness Coach, focusing on physicians, healthcare professionals, and executives. Helps clients strengthen their sources of positivity and weaken internal saboteurs to lead more fulfilling lives.
• Physicians Anonymous: Coach supporting an international community dedicated to physician well-being and leadership development.
• Common Practice (2015–2018): Served as Medical Director, applying tools to improve communication, decision-making, and care for people with serious illness.
• Plexus Institute (2012–2015): President of this nonprofit focused on applying complexity science to health, education, and organizational change. He advanced the use of the Adaptive Positive Deviance framework to create sustainable systemic improvements.
• Jefferson School of Population Health (2013–2014): Adjunct Faculty teaching quality and patient safety methods.
• Albert Einstein Medical Center (2001–2012): Served as Chief Quality Officer, creating an organization-wide framework for improvement in outcomes, safety, and patient experience. His leadership earned recognition from Premier Inc. and the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania.
• Clinical Practice: Trained and practiced as a hematologist/oncologist before transitioning to executive leadership and coaching.

Speaking and Thought Leadership

Jeff is a sought-after coach, mentor, and speaker on physician well-being, leadership, and healthcare transformation. His areas of focus include:

• Mental fitness and resilience for physicians and healthcare leaders.
• Strategies to reduce suffering and promote fulfillment in healthcare careers.
• Quality improvement and patient-centered leadership.
• Positive deviance as a driver of innovation and systemic change.

External Links

• Care to Change Coaching : https://caretochangecoaching.com/
• Jeff Cohn on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-cohn-2738b82b/
• Physicians Anonymous : https://physiciansanonymous.org/

Jeff Cohn continues to advance physician leadership and well-being through his coaching, mentoring, and board service, equipping healthcare professionals to stop hurting, start thriving, and create lasting positive change.