Ben Cohen, MD
Ophthalmologist located in Upper East Side, New York, NY
About Dr. Cohen
Ophthalmologist Ben Zane Cohen, MD, has been serving New York City as a retina specialist since 1983. After years of steady progress, Dr. Cohen realized his dream of building a state-of-the-art surgery center dedicated to ophthalmic disorders when he founded the Retinal Ambulatory Surgery Center of New York in the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 2008.
Dr. Cohen earned his medical degree from New York Medical College in Manhattan and completed his postgraduate internship at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens. He went on to finish his residency training in ophthalmology at The University of Chicago before returning to New York to complete a fellowship in macular disorders at Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital. Dr. Cohen pursued further training with a fellowship in surgery at Massachusetts Eye and Ear teaching hospital at Harvard Medical School and a fellowship in clinical research at the Eye Research Institute of the Retina Foundation.
In addition to seeing patients at his practice, Dr. Cohen has prior experience teaching residents at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, assistant attending physician at Mount Sinai Hospital, and associate adjunct surgeon at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary at Mount Sinai.
As an active member of the medical community, Dr. Cohen maintains membership in many professional organizations, including the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American College of Surgeons, and the New York State Ophthalmological Society. His work has been published in leading ophthalmology publications and book chapters.
