Elizabeth Cohen is a medical correspondent for CNN's health and medical unit. During her 16-year tenure at CNN, Cohen has reported award-winning stories from Ground Zero following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, from military hospitals during Hurricane Katrina and from Virginia Tech following the shooting massacre in April 2007. Cohen reports daily on breaking medical news and has a regular column on CNN.com called "The Empowered Patient."
Cohen has received several awards for her work, including a National Headliner, a Cine and a Sigma Delta Chi award for the moving segment "A Lesson in Dying," awards from the American Mental Health Association and two "Freddie" awards from the International Health and Medical Media Film Competition. She won a first-place award in the American Medical Association's International Health and Medical Film Competition for her coverage on obesity. She is a recipient of the Russell L. Cecil Medical Journalism Award from the Arthritis Foundation, the Golden Triangle Award from the American Academy of Dermatology.
Before joining CNN in 1991, Cohen was associate producer of Green Watch, an environmental show on WLVI-TV in Boston. Before working in television, she was a newspaper reporter for States News Service in Washington, D.C., and for the Times Union in Albany, N.Y., where she won a Hearst Award.
A winner of the outstanding alumna award from Columbia College, Cohen received a bachelor's degree in history. She earned a master's degree in public health from Boston University.
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