Meet The Doctors
Alen N. Cohen, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Cohen is Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and is one of a select number of surgeons in the country that specializes in minimally invasive thyroid and parathyroid surgery. As such he was recently named Director of the Minimally Invasive Thyroid & Parathyroid Surgery program at West Hills Medical Center. The first and only program in the San Fernando Valley. He understands the importance of combining function and cosmesis in the surgical management of patients with various head and neck disorders, including tumors of the head and neck.
Jerome D. Vener, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Vener is Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at both the David Geffen School of Medicine and the USC School of Medicine, one of very few that have academic appointments at two institutions. He graduated medical school in 1977 and entered the Head and Neck Surgery training program at UCLA in 1979. His internship was completed in Internal Medicine giving him the unique ability to master in surgery and also have expertise in dealing with the seriously ill.
