Dr. Cohen’s career has ranged from practicing primary care and addiction medicine to leadership roles in community health centers, top health plans, a multi-state integrated care organization, and a health technology start-up.

Before joining New Bedford Community Health Center, she served as Interim Chief Medical Officer and Senior Medical Director at Point32Health. There she led Point32Health to become the first plan in New England to achieve NCQA’s Health Equity Accreditation. During her time as Medical Director at Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island, she partnered with the Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services and other state agencies in the development of programming and policies that expanded access to holistic models of care, addiction treatment, safer pharmacy utilization, and LGBTQ care including gender-affirming treatment.