Elizabeth Cohen is a medical journalist. As CNN’s senior medical correspondent, Cohen won three Gracies from The Alliance for Women in Media; she has also been honored by the Newswoman’s Club of New York, the National Association of Black Journalists, and the Sigma Delta Chi/Society of Professional Journalists, among others. She has reported on the September 11th attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Haiti earthquake, the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, and the infant formula airlift in Germany. Cohen’s investigation into a Florida pediatric heart surgery program won a First Amendment legal victory and spurred the American Heart Association and American Academy of Pediatrics to issue new program guidelines. She authored the cnn.com column and book, “The Empowered Patient.”
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