A Passion and a Vocation

“I’ve been working in the healthcare industry for almost all my professional life,” says Mark Cohen, ARM, RPLU, CPHQ, CPHRM, DFASHRM, consultant for Sutter Health (Sacramento, California). “I started at UCLA; when a position opened up in the risk management department, I was fortunate enough to get it, and it changed my life.”

Cohen has been involved in risk management for nearly 30 years. “I consider myself fortunate to have stumbled into this line of work,” he says. “I find it challenging and interesting. There’s so much in healthcare...