Elizabeth Cohen

Born as Elizabeth Sondra Schwartz, she opened her eyes into this world as the daughter of Sheila Fay and Charles A. “Chuch” Schwartz, who were both physicians. She grew up with her three siblings (2 sisters and a brother) – Pamela Fay Cohen, David Ansin Schwartz and Julia Molly Healy.

For her education, Cohen went to the Columbia College and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in History (B.A.). She continued her education by attending Boston University and graduated with a Master’s degree in public health receiving outstanding alumna award.

Cohen tied the knot with Tal Cohen, an Israeli-born entrepreneur and the couple have been blessed with four beautiful daughters.

Cohen started her professional life as an associate producer of an environmental program, Green Watch at WLVI, Boston. She moved on to working at the States News Service at Washington, D.C. along with The Times Union in Albany, New York as their reporter.

In 1991, Cohen was hired by CNN to work on issues related to health. Since then Cohen has reported major news stories including the Gulk oil spill, the 2010 Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Katrina from a medical perspective. Cohen, as a result of her hard work, is now the senior medical correspondent of CNN’s Health, Medical and Wellness Unit.

While working for The Times Union back at New York, Cohen had received the Hearst Award. She also received a Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists along with a National Headliner Award for her feature “A Lesson Before Dying”.

She has also been honored with a Gracie Award for her feature “Where’s Molly?” She has also helped CNN win an Emmy for her work in covering the Hurricane Katrina and the September 11 attacks.

In 2010, Cohen released her book “The Empowered Patient.”

Due to her impressive and inspiring achievements in her long and prosperous career, Elizabeth Cohen has received a lot of love and support from her audience all over the world, especially on social media.

Available at @elizcohencnn, she has around 21200 followers in her Twitter account and has tweeted 1901 times till date.