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Dr. Cohn has served as a member of our Board of Directors since our inception in July 1988. Since 1974, Dr. Cohn has been employed by the University of Minnesota Medical School as a Professor of Medicine and he was Head of its Cardiovascular Division from 1974 through 1997. Dr. Cohn discovered that arterial elasticity indices could be determined from blood pressure waveforms in the late 1970’s and he is a co-inventor of the pulse contour analysis technology used in our CardioVascular Profiling System Products. Dr. Cohn is our Chief Medical Consultant and has been a consultant to several pharmaceutical firms both in the U.S. and overseas. He became the Chairman of our Scientific and Clinical Advisory Board during 1996. Dr. Cohn is a past President of the American Society of Hypertension, the International Society of Hypertension and the Heart Failure Society of America, and is a member of some 17 professional societies. He is immediate past editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cardiac Failure, has authored more than 600 scientific articles, is a member of the editorial board of 15 professional journals and is co-editor of the textbook, Cardiovascular Medicine. Dr. Cohn also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cohn Prevention Centers (CPC), a development stage company intending to create a nationwide network of clinics providing cardiovascular health assessment. Dr. Cohn received his M.D. degree from Cornell University (1956).
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