Aly Cohen
Dr. Aly Cohen is tripled board certified in internal medicine, rheumatology, and integrative medicine, and she is also a trained specialist in environmental health. She specializes in variety of rheumatologist ailments as well as mental health issues, migraines, dementia prevention, diabetes, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, obesity, and women’s health.
Dr. Cohen received her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania. She went on to medical training at Hahnemann University Hospital School of Medicine in Philadelphia, and completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Dr. Cohen continued her specialist training in rheumatology and autoimmune diseases at Montefiore Hospital/Albert Einstein University Hospital in the Bronx, New York. Dr. Cohen is currently in private practice in Princeton, New Jersey. Her practice, that she founded in 2011, Integrative Rheumatology Associates P.C., focuses on both traditional western medical management of rheumatologic ailments, as well as integrative options for total “wellness”, such as biofeedback, acupuncture, cognitive therapy, diet and exercise counseling, environmental toxin counseling, smoking cessation, stress management and sleep evaluations.
Dr. Cohen is trained in medical acupuncture from the Helms Institute at UCLA and Environmental Medicine from Dr. Andrew Weil and the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. In 2012, she was honored as the recipient of the Jones/Lovell Rheumatology Scholarship at the Center for Integrative Medicine in Tucson, Arizona. She has studied and worked alongside Dr. Andrew Weil and his colleagues in the field of integrative medicine over the past two years. Dr. Cohen regularly lectures on healthy dietary and integrative medicine techniques to her patients and the community.
Dr. Cohen’s strong interest in environmental chemical exposure has led to her current collaboration with the Environmental Working Group (EWG.org) to create a CME accredited presentation on endocrine disrupting chemicals and their relationship to human health, designed specifically for physicians, nurses and other health professionals. She lectures nationally on this topic to communities, academic institutions and medical schools. She has been a consultant for major corporations such as Knowledge Universe to help reduce the chemical exposure of infants and toddlers in over 2,000 KinderCare Daycares across the United States. Currently, she is working as a medical investigator in the Paulsboro, New Jersey train derailment in 2012 that spilled thousands of gallons of polyvinyl chloride. In addition to the education of adults on this topic, Dr. Cohen has extended her message to the education of young people. She is currently piloting a program at Princeton High School to integrate environmental health information into the current health curriculum, and she was asked to lecture at NAEYC’s 2014 National Institute for Early Childhood Professional Development, in June 2014. She co-edited the "Integrative Environmental Health" textbook for the Weil/Oxford University Press academic series in 2017 and her new book, “Non-Toxic: Living Healthy in a Chemical World”, is due for release in 2020. She was awarded the 2015 New Jersey Healthcare Heroes Award for Education, and has been voted "Top Docs NJ" for Rheumatology in 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019!
As a recognized advocate for health education, Dr. Cohen also works as a writer, interviewer and producer for children and adult health programs on an array of network and cable TV channels. She is also a published medical author.
