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 With the addition of Dr. Bruce Cohen and Joe Poe, DAN’s Board of Directors continues to reflect a diversity of experience and skills, Board Chairman Dennis Liberson said recently.
“Both are excellent additions to the DAN Board of Directors,” Liberson said in a recent announcement. “Joe Poe is an accomplished diver, and he brings his extensive legal experience to the board.
“Bruce Cohen has an outstanding medical and management background, and his understanding of issues related to hyperbaric medicine and research will be most helpful to DAN as we continue in our efforts to advance dive safety.”
DAN President and CEO Dan Orr said the organization is excited about the two new board members. “Both have been strong supporters for many years, and the knowledge and expertise they bring to our board will add to our ability to promote DAN’s dive safety mission,” Orr said.
Cohen, a captain in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps, graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., and St George 's University School of Medicine in Grenada, Wis. Board-certified in family medicine, ambulatory care medicine, undersea medicine and clinical hyperbaric medicine, Cohen was in private practice and taught in a Family Practice Residency Program before entering the Naval Reserves in 1988. He went on active duty in 1992.
Cohen has a master’s of public health degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a fellowship in Hyperbaric/Hypobaric Medicine from Duke University Medical Center.
Poe is an experienced trial lawyer concentrating on commercial and tort litigation with hundreds of jury trials and numerous significant jury verdicts, settlements and appellate decisions. He is owner of Poe Law Firm, PLLC, a general litigation law firm in Durham, N.C.
A graduate of U.S. Army Still Photography School and a certified technical and trimix diver, Poe has explored N.C. wrecks for more than 25 years. He was a member of the first civilian team to dive on the USS Monitor in 1990.
Poe’s photographs have been published in numerous newspapers, books and magazines. His images were chosen by NOAA to illustrate its report to Congress on the condition of the USS Monitor. His article, "A Monitor Odyssey," featuring photographs of the USS Monitor, was published in the April 2005 edition of Wreck Diving Magazine.
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