Faculty

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Jordana B. Cohen, MD, MSCE

Associate Professor of Medicine (Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

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Department: Medicine

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3600 Civic Center Blvd, 4W100A
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Email:
jco@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

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13 Education:
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32 The College of New Jersey, 2006.
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3c Rutgers - New Jersey Medical School, 2009.
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33 University of Pennsylvania, 2015.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

56 Hypertension, secondary hypertension, chronic kidney disease, dialysis
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Description of Research Expertise

c5 Antihypertensive pharmacoepidemiology, hypertension mechanistic trials, longitudinal data analyses and causal inference analyses related to blood pressure measurement and management
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Selected Publications

10d Cohen JB, Addo DK, Jacobs JA, Greene TH, Xu Y, Picone DS, Shimbo D, Bress AP: Impact of a Smartwatch Hypertension Notification Feature for Population Screening. JAMA. 335(11): 1001-1003, Mar 2026.

158 Cohen JB, Byfield RL, Hardy ST, Juraschek SP, Houston Miller N, Mukkamala R, Picone DS, Thiele RH, Yang E, Brady TM: Cuffless Devices for the Measurement of Blood Pressure: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association. Hypertension. 83(3): e00254, Mar 2026.

25a Jones DW, Ferdinand KC, Taler SJ, Shimbo D, Abdalla M, Altieri MM, Bansal N, Bello NA, Bress AP, Carter J, Cohen JB, Collins KJ, Commodore-Mensah Y, Davis LL, Egan B, Khan SS, Lloyd-Jones DM, Mazurek Melnyk B, Mistry EA, Ogunniyi MO, Schott SL, Smith SC, Talbot AW, Vongpatanasin W, Watson KE, Whelton PK, Williamson JD: 2025 AHA/ACC/AANP/AAPA/ABC/ACCP/ACPM/AGS/AMA/ASPC/NMA/PCNA/SGIM Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults. Circulation. 152(11): e114-e218, Sep 2025.

b9 Cohen JB: Rethinking Confirmatory Testing in Primary Aldosteronism. Ann Intern Med. 178(7): 1044-1045, Jul 2025.

f2 Shulman R, Yang W, Cohen DL, Reese PP, Cohen JB: Cardiac Effects of Renin-Angiotensin System Inhibitors in Nonproteinuric CKD. Hypertension. 81(10): 2082-2090, Oct 2024.

104 Passman J, Wall-Wieler E, Liu Y, Zheng F, Cohen JB: Antihypertensive Medication Use Trajectories after Bariatric Surgery: A Matched Cohort Study. Hypertension. 81(8): 1737-1746, Aug 2024.

15c Cohen DL, Wachtel H, Vaidya A, Hundemer GL, Tezuka Y, Davio A, Turcu AF, Cohen JB: Primary Aldosteronism in Chronic Kidney Disease: Blood Pressure Control and Kidney and Cardiovascular Outcomes After Surgical vs. Medical Management. Hypertension. 80(10): 2187-2195, Oct 2023.

9d Cohen JB, Mitchell GF, Gill D, Burgess S, Rahman M, Hanff T, Ramachandran VS, Mutalik K, Townsend RR, Chirinos JA ad : Arterial Stiffness and Diabetes Mellitus Risk in the Framingham Heart Study and United Kingdom Biobank. Circ Res. 131(6): 545-554, Sep 2022.

225 Cohen JB, Marcum ZA, Zhang C, Derington CG, Greene TH, Ghazi L, Herrick JS, King JB, Cheung AK, Bryan N, Supiano MA, Sonnen JA, Weintraub WS, Scharfstein D, Williamson J, Pajewski NM, Bress AP: Risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment or Probable Dementia in New Users of Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers and Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors: A Secondary Analysis of Data From the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT). JAMA Netw Open. 5(7): e2220680, Jul 2022.

132 Cohen JB, Cohen DL, Herman DS, Leppert JT, Byrd JB, Bhalla V: Testing for Primary Aldosteronism and Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonist Use Among US Veterans: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Ann Intern Med. 174(3): 289-297, Mar 2021.

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