Ellen Cohen, MSW

Ellen Cohen was married to Ken Schwartz when he was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1994. After her husband's death, Ms. Cohen worked tirelessly to fulfill her late husband's dream of founding an organization dedicated to strengthening the relationship between patients and caregivers. She shaped the goals and mission of the organization, and her leadership was crucial to the launch of the Schwartz Center and its inaugural dinner in 1996, which drew more than 1,400 guests. She is currently the Board's president. "Though it began as my own grief work," she said, "it quickly became a passion for the need, as Ken said, to rewrite the rules about the relationship between caregivers and patients." Ms. Cohen is currently an education consultant for the Open Circle Program, a social/emotional learning program for young children. She is a graduate of Tufts University where she earned a BA in Child Study and dual masters degrees in Social Work and Public Health from Boston University. Ms. Cohen and her husband, Dr. Daniel Haber, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, chaired the Schwartz Center's tenth anniversary dinner in 2005.

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Ellen Cohen, MSW

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