Donald J. Cohen

Cohen was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 5, 1940. His father was a businessman. He studied philosophy at Cambridge University on a Fulbright fellowship. as well as four children, five grandchildren, two brothers, and his mother. ==Career==

Medical Cohen joined the Yale School of Medicine in 1972. Cohen was named the director of the Yale Child Study Center in 1983, a position he held until his death in 2001. and was president from 1992 to 1998. He served as vice-president of the board of governors of Yale University Press, was an analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, and was a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He held chair appointments with the Child Health and Development Institute the and Schneider Children's Hospital of Israel, and was International President of the Telefon Azzuro Foundation in Italy. He served on editorial boards in the United States, France, Israel, and Great Britain. Other achievements Cohen is credited with transforming three buildings at Yale to help give the Yale Child Study Center prominence (the Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Service, the Harris-Provence Child Development Unit, and the Nelson and Irving Harris Building), obtaining "prominent and central locations at the medical school for each of these buildings." He also helped bring kosher kitchens to the university. ==Publications==

Cohen authored or co-authored more than 300 professional articles and 159 book chapters. His books include: • • • • • He inspired the production of the "first Israeli textbook of child psychiatry in Hebrew, the first modern textbook of child psychiatry in China and a new textbook of child psychiatry in South Korea." ==Legacy==

Colleague James F. Leckman said: "He fostered the development of the next generation of academic child psychiatrists from many countries, in Europe, Korea, China, as well as Israel,"In 2000, the Donald J. Cohen National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative was established "to raise the standard of care and increase access to services for children and families who experience or witness traumatic events." The initiative was introduced as a bill by Senator Joe Lieberman and approved by both houses of the United States Congress to amend the Public Health Service Act to recognize Cohen's contributions to victims of violence-related stress. Other programs established in his honor include: • The Donald J. Cohen Fellowship in Developmental Social Neuroscience at Emory University. • The Donald J. Cohen Fellowship Program for International Scholars in Child and Adolescent Mental Health from the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions. • The Donald J. Cohen Medical Student Training Program at the Vermont Center for Children, Youth, and Families. ==References==