Surgeon.
Born at Winnipeg on 18 November 1923, son of Isaac Cohen and Anne Cohen, he received his undergraduate and medical school education at the University of Manitoba (1948). He then went to the University of Minnesota for post graduate surgical training, completing his residency and PhD in Surgery before returning to Winnipeg in 1955.
He joined the Department of Surgery at the University of Manitoba where he performed Manitoba’s first open-heart surgery, in 1959. As the driving force behind the introduction of cardiac surgery to the Province of Manitoba, he served as head of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery from its inception in 1967 to 1984. He retired in 1987. In recognition of his contributions to the province’s medical community, he received a Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal (1977) and Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal (2002), and a Distinguished Service Award from the Manitoba Medical Association (1989).
On 3 May 1953, he married Kathleen Patricia Joan Crane at St. Paul, Minnesota and they had five children.
He died at Winnipeg on 18 August 2005.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Forlong House (295 Dromore Avenue, Winnipeg)
“Engagement notices,” Winnipeg Free Press, 4 April 1953, page 18.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 27 August 2005.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 12 February 2025
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