Elizabeth Cohen (born Elizabeth Sondra Schwartz) is an American television news

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for

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. She is the channel's senior

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correspondent and appears on various programs.

Early life

She was born Elizabeth Sondra Schwartz, the daughter of Sheila Fay (née Gopen) and Charles A. "Chuck" Schwartz. Her father was a physician. She has two sisters and a brother: Pamela Fay Cohen, Julia Molly Healy, and David Ansin Schwartz and was raised in Needham, Massachusetts. She is of

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descent. Cohen attended Columbia College, and graduated in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in

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. In 1992, she graduated with a master's degree in

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from

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. She has received outstanding alumna awards from both colleges.

Career

Cohen worked at WLVI in

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as associate producer of environmental program ''Green Watch''. She also worked as a reporter for States News Service in

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and for The '' Times Union'' in

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. Cohen joined CNN in 1991. She 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 A catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake struck Haiti at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010. The epicenter was near the town of Léogâne, Ouest department, approximately west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's c ...

and Hurricane Katrina. She is currently senior medical correspondent for CNN's Health, Medical and Wellness unit.

Awards

Cohen won a Hearst Award during her time at the ''Times Union''. She 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. She 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. She won a

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in 2008 for the feature "Where’s Molly?" She contributed to CNN's Emmy Award-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the

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Works

She published a book titled ''The Empowered Patient'' in 2010.

Personal life

She is married to Israeli-born entrepreneur Tal Cohen; they have four daughters.

References

External links

CNN - biography
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