Jordana Cohen, MD, MSCE
Deputy Director, Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Dr. Cohen’s primary research interest is in the area of hypertension. Her research program focuses on better understanding physiology-driven pharmacologic effects of antihypertensive medications in complex and high-risk disease states using advanced pharmacoepidemiologic methods and randomized trials. Her other research interests include accuracy and utility of out-of-office blood pressure measurement, and disparities in access to care and long-term cardiovascular outcomes in high-risk patients with hypertension and chronic kidney disease.
Dr. Cohen is a faculty member in the Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division in the Department of Medicine. She is currently the principal investigator of several grants funded by the National Institutes of Health and has served as Chair of the Data Coordinating Center for two investigator-initiated, multicenter, international trials. She is also a coinvestigator of multiple studies that evaluate hypertension management in complex disease states, including the Home Blood Pressure in Hemodialysis (HOME-BP) Trial, the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study Scientific Data Coordinating Center, and HeartShare.
Dr. Cohen is Co-Chair of the American Medical Association’s Validated Device Listing, Co-Chair of the World Hypertension League’s Accuracy in Measurement of Blood Pressure Collaborative, immediate past Chair of the American Heart Association’s Hypertension Science Committee of the Council on Hypertension, and served as a writing committee member for the 2025 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults.
Selected Affiliations and Memberships
- Fellow, American Heart Association
- Fellow, American Society of Nephrology
- Associate Editor, Hypertension
Selected Awards
- Sandy Norman Teaching Award 2023
- Marjorie A. Bowman New Investigator Research Award 2023
- Rising Star Research Award, American Heart Association Hypertension Council 2023
- Chair’s Distinguished Junior Faculty Spotlight Award 2024
Clinical Training
- Internal Medicine Residency, Boston University Medical Center 2012
- Nephrology Fellowship, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania 2014