Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen started gymnastics at West Philadelphia High School and later competed at Penn State, where he won the Nissen Award his senior year, emblematic of the nation’s top senior gymnast. Cohen won the NCAA all-around title in both 1967 and 1968. He took silver in the all-around at the Maccabiah Games, in addition to nine medals on apparatus events. Cohen also was on the 1966 World Championship and 1968 Olympic teams. He later attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania, eventually working in academic medicine in environmental and occupational dermatology. In 2006 he became Professor and Chief of Dermatology at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine. He was inducted into the US Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1991.