Cohen, William D., 1910-2004

Dates

• Existence: 1910 - 2004

biographical statement

William Cohen, Portland internist, died at the age of 94. He was born May 12, 1910 in New York City. He graduated from Reed College in Portland, Oregon with a B.A. in chemistry (1931). He then received an M.D. from UOMS in 1935. He was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha medical honorary society. In 1940, he married physician, Stella Fisher. After serving a residency in New York City, they both returned to Portland where Cohen opened a private practice. He joined the Army during WWII, serving in Paris as a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine. After the War, he resumed his practice in Portland and taught classes at the medical school. He was president of the Oregon Heart Association and was elected to the American Physicians Fellowship, Inc. for the Israel Medical Association in 1969. He was a member of the Multnomah County Medical Society, the Oregon Trudeau Society, the Oregon Health Association and the Portland Academy of medicine, the Oregon Medical Association and the American Medical Association. He was chief of staff for the Medical Center Hospital of Portland in 1979. Stella died in 1970. He married his second wife, Blanche Rosencrantz, in 1971. He had two sons, Stuart and Stephen, and a stepson, Larry and stepdaughter, Sue and one grandchild at the time of his death.

Citation:

2005-012 Guide to the Public Health Survey of the City of Portland Records; https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/in-memoriam/obituaries/may2005/william-d-cohen-1931.html https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/in-memoriam/obituaries/may2005/william-d-cohen-1931.html

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