Mrs. Dr. Carmen Cojanu

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Get to know Family Practitioner Dr. Carmen Cojanu, who serves the population of Colorado.

Dr. Carmen Cojanu is a family practitioner currently practicing with St. Anthony Hospital. St. Anthony Hospital is a Level I Trauma Center in Lakewood, Colorado, providing a full range of medical specialties and health care services to Denver and the surrounding metro areas at our state-of-the-art medical campus. At St. Anthony Hospital, you can be confident in our expertise in heart and vascular, stroke, trauma, neurosciences, breast imaging, cancer, da Vinci Surgery, and more. 

She specializes in comprehensive health care for people of all ages. In addition to diagnosing and treating illnesses, family practitioners also put focus on preventative care with routine checkups, tests, and personalized coaching on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Cojanu possesses immense general knowledge on maintaining health and today, family practitioners provide more care for the underserved and rural populations than any other medical specialty.

In regards to her education, she graduated with her medical degree from the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in 1987. She then started her training with Maimonides Medical Center where she completed her internship in 2007, followed by a Family Medicine residency with St. Luke’s Hospital in 2010. 

An expert in her field she is certified in family medicine by the American Board of Family Medicine. Founded in 1969, ABFM is a not-for-profit, private organization whose mission is to improve the health of the public through Board Certification, Residency Training, Research, Leadership Development, and promoting the development of the specialty of Family Medicine. As of Summer 2020, ABFM has more than 97,000 Diplomates and is the third largest of 24 boards that make up the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). Through ABMS, the specialty boards work together to establish common standards for physicians to achieve and maintain board certification.

To stay up to date in her field, she remains a member of the Society of Hospital Medicine and the American Academy of Family Physicians. 

Family medicine is the medical specialty which provides continuing, comprehensive health care for the individual and family. It is a specialty in breadth that integrates biological, clinical and behavioral sciences. The scope of family medicine encompasses all ages, both sexes, each organ system, as well as every disease entity. The specialist is called a family physician or family doctor.

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