Jon R. Cohen, M.D., is an American physician, business executive, and former public official who is Senior Vice President of OPKO Health and Executive Chairman of BioReference Laboratories and prior Executive Chairman and CEO of Bioreference Laboratories. Bioreference Laboratories one of the largest commercial laboratories in the U.S. with revenues of almost $ 1 Billion. Dr. Cohen led Bioreference to national prominence during the Covid19 crisis. Bioreference is now recognized for their work as one of the largest commercial laboratories to have served the U.S. during the pandemic, having performed over 23 million PCR tests and as the national leader for COVID surveillance testing. Dr. Cohen has been featured in over 150 broadcast and written press interviews over the last 24 months for his leadership during the COVID 19 crisis. Cohen served for over nine years as a Senior Executive and named executive officer at Quest Diagnostics. Originally as Chief Medical Officer, and then as most recently as Senior Vice President and Group Executive - Diagnostic Solutions. Before joining Quest, Cohen served as Senior Advisor to New York Governor David A. Paterson. In 2006, Cohen ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor of New York. For seven years he served as Chief Medical Officer at North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System .(Northwell Health) Cohen is a vascular surgeon who completed his residency in surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and vascular surgery fellowship at the Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed professional articles and authored two books. Career After arriving at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in 1985, Cohen eventually Chief of Vascular Surgery, Chairman of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief. As Chief of Vascular Surgery, he established the first comprehensive vascular institute in New York. His major research contributions were into the pathophysiology of aortic aneurysm development at the molecular level. As Chairman of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief, Cohen's department grew to 18 surgeons, with an institutional surgical volume increasing from 17,000 to 25,000 cases per year. From 1998 to 2000, Cohen was Executive Vice President of the three-hospital academic medical center with operational responsibility for the day to day operations of the 800-bed academic medical center with an annual budget of $600 million. In 2000, Cohen was appointed as Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President for the newly merged entity, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. Cohen was