Elizabeth Cohen is the channel's senior medical correspondent and appears on various programs.
13 Facts About Elizabeth Cohen
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Elizabeth Cohen was born Elizabeth Sondra Schwartz, the daughter of Sheila Fay and Charles A "Chuck" Schwartz.
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Elizabeth Cohen has two sisters and a brother: Pamela Fay Cohen, Julia Molly Healy, and David Ansin Schwartz and was raised in Needham, Massachusetts.
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Elizabeth Cohen has received outstanding alumna awards from both colleges.
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Elizabeth Cohen worked at WLVI in Boston as associate producer of environmental program Green Watch.
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Elizabeth Cohen worked as a reporter for States News Service in Washington, DC and for The Times Union in Albany, New York.
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Elizabeth Cohen focuses on health-related issues and has reported from a medical angle on major news stories including the Gulf oil spill, the 2010 Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Katrina.
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Elizabeth Cohen is currently senior medical correspondent for CNN's Health, Medical and Wellness unit.
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Elizabeth Cohen won a Hearst Award during her time at the Times Union.
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Elizabeth Cohen won a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists and a National Headliner Award for the feature "A Lesson Before Dying" in 2006.
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Elizabeth Cohen was honored by the Newswomen's Club of New York, the New York Association of Black Journalists for the feature "African-Americans and Bone Marrow Transplants", and the Mental Health America Media Awards in 2007 for her reporting work.
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Elizabeth Cohen published a book titled The Empowered Patient in 2010.
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Elizabeth Cohen is married to Israeli-born entrepreneur Tal Cohen; they have four daughters.