Aaron Cohen

Bio:

Aaron is a medical oncologist, clinical informatician, and epidemiologist serving as Head of Clinical AI and Digital Oncology at Flatiron Health. In this role, he helps shape Flatiron’s AI and data strategy, working cross-functionally with machine learning engineers, data scientists, and clinical teams to develop clinically grounded AI capabilities spanning EHR data curation, insight extraction, predictive modeling, and decision support.

Drawing on his perspective as both a practicing clinician and health outcomes researcher, Aaron’s work focuses on novel approaches to AI quality evaluation and benchmarking, as well as ensuring that AI tools are grounded in real clinical needs, aligned with how care is delivered in practice, and held to rigorous standards for validity, transparency, and trust. He has published extensively on these topics and presented his work at national and international forums, including ASCO, the National Cancer Policy Forum, and the National Cancer Institute.

In addition to his work at Flatiron, Aaron is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at NYU School of Medicine and cares for patients with solid tumor malignancies at Bellevue Hospital. He completed his undergraduate degree, medical degree, and M.S. in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by residency in internal medicine and fellowship in hematology/oncology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is board certified in internal medicine, medical oncology, and clinical informatics.