He has been writing short stories and poetry since high school. After his cardiology training he spent eleven years doing research, publishing thirty-two papers, before going into private practice. Dr. Cohen is an accomplished musician and artist, has sailed across the Atlantic, and has accrued almost one million miles on commercial flights over five years. The many hours of flying afforded him the time to go back to his first passion, fiction writing, and his fellow passengers gave him more elements of the human character than he could use for his first novel, Plane Talk. Some of those extra elements will appear in his second novel,The Waiter.