Sally S Cohen

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Sally Cohen

PhD RN FAAN

Clinical Professor

1 212 992 5929

433 First Ave
New York, NY 10010
United States

Sally Cohen's additional information

Sally Cohen, PhD, RN, PNP, FAAN is a Clinical Professor at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Her interdisciplinary scholarship spans nursing, child health, public health, and political science. She teaches graduate nursing courses in health policy and “issues and trends in nursing and health care.” Prof Cohen has chaired many PhD dissertation and DNP Project committees.

Prof. Cohen’s most recent scholarship focuses on systems of care for children and youth with special health care needs. In particular, she studies health issues in education transitions for young children with developmental behavioral disabilities.

Prior to joining the faculty at NYU Meyers, Cohen was Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute of Medicine (now the Academy of Medicine), Before that, she directed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nursing and Health Policy Collaborative at the University of New Mexico. She has held tenured faculty positions at Yale and the University of New Mexico. At Yale, she developed and directed the Nursing Management, Policy, and Leadership specialty, which was the precursor to Yale’s DNP program. She also was on the executive committee of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics. As director of policy and research at the National League of Nursing, Cohen helped advocate for legislation that in 1985 established the National Institute of Nursing Research. She has also practiced as an RN and a PNP.

Among her many honors, Cohen received the Ellen Rudy Clore Excellence in Writing Award from the Journal of Pediatric Health Care (2023,1998), the Lois Capps Policy Luminary Award from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, and was honored by Yale School of Nursing with its “90 Outstanding Yale Nurses” award. She received the Kaplan-Landy Award for Vision, Innovation, and Leadership from the Hadassah Nurses Council and was elected to the American Academy of Nursing in 1988. She received the Marisa de Castro Benton Prize, for an outstanding dissertation in Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University

Cohen earned her PhD from Columbia University, MSN from Yale University, and BA from Cornell University.

PhD, Columbia University
MSN, Yale University
BA, Cornell University

Pediatric
Community/population health
Health Policy

American Academy of Nursing
American Nurses Association
American Political Science Association
American Public Health Association
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners
Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics

Faculty Honors Awards

Lois Capps Policy Luminary Award, American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2019)
90 Nurses for 90 Years, Yale University School of Nursing (2013)
Kaplan-Landy Award for Vision, Innovation, and Leadership, Hadassah National Nurses Council (2008)
Elected to the New York Academy of Medicine (2006)
Ellen Rudy Clore Excellence in Writing Award, Journal of Pediatric Health Care (1998)
Dissertation approved with distinction (1993)
Marisa de Castro Benton Prize, for outstanding dissertation in Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University (1993)
Elected to American Academy of Nursing (1988)
Elected to Sigma Theta Tau, International, Honor Society for Nursing, as charter member Delta Mu Chapter (1979)

Publications

Suppression of immune function in growth hormone-deficient children during treatment with human growth hormone

Cohen, S., Rapaport, R., Oleske, J., Ahdieh, H., Solomon, S., Delfaus, C., & Denny, T. (1986). (Vols. 109, Issues 3, pp. 434-439). 10.1016/S0022-3476(86)80113-5
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Inasmuch as growth hormone is known to interact with the immune system, we studied immune functions including immunoglobulins, cell surface markers, mitogen responses, and polymorphonuclear cell function in eight children with growth hormone deficiency, ages 1 to 17 years, before and during treatment with human growth hormone for 12 to 16 months. Before treatment, immune functions were normal in all children. Treatment with human growth hormone did not significantly affect serum immunoglobulins, polymorphonuclear cell function, or percent T cells. However, percent B cells decreased to subnormal levels in seven of seven patients. T helper/suppressor ratios, decreased in all patients, to subnormal values in seven of eight patients; and mitogen responses decreased to below normal in all. The decline of percent B cells was transient in all patients, of T helper/suppressor ratios in seven of eight, and mitogen responses in five of eight patients. In vitro incubation of lymphocytes with growth hormone resulted in no changes in cell surface markers or mitogen responses. Although the depression of immune functions resulted in no increased rate of infections during the observation period, we do not know the possible effects of prolonged treatment and therefore caution, against the indiscriminate use of human growth hormone. The effects of biosynthetically obtained growth hormone on immune function remain to be determined.

Talking points.

Cohen, S., Maraldo, P. J., & Solomon, S. (1986). (Issue 41-1993, pp. i-iv, 1).
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D.C. regulatory battle proves our fight is far from over.

Cohen, S., & Solomon, S. B. (1985). (Vols. 6, Issues 5, pp. 242-243).
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Diverse issues call for decisive action.

Cohen, S., & Solomon, S. (1985). (Vols. 6, Issues 9, pp. 479-480).
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The fate of the National Institute of Nursing.

Cohen, S., & Solomon, S. B. (1985). (Issue 19-1981, pp. 3-11).
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Federal funding for nursing education.

Cohen, S., & Solomon, S. B. (1985). (Issue 19-1981, pp. 19-29).
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Nursing's legislative agenda, round one.

Cohen, S., & Solomon, S. B. (1985). (Vols. 6, Issues 6, pp. 296-298).
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Organ transplant law raises thorny questions.

Cohen, S., & Solomon, S. B. (1985). (Vols. 6, Issue 1, pp. 19-20).
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Two new Medicare programs get in on the act.

Cohen, S., & Solomon, S. B. (1985). (Vols. 6, Issues 4, pp. 186-187).
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Baby Doe cases raise questions about government role.

Cohen, S., & Solomon, S. (1984). (Vols. 5, Issues 5, pp. 238-239).
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