Dana Hall School welcomes alumna Elizabeth Schwartz Cohen ’83 as the next speaker in the 2009-10 Wannamaker Lecture Series. Cohen, the associate senior medical correspondent for CNN’s health and medical unit, will speak to the Dana Hall community on Thursday, February 11 at 7 p.m.  The event is free and open to the public.

During her 17-year tenure at CNN, Cohen has reported from Ground Zero following Sept. 11, 2001; a military hospital during Hurricane Katrina; Virginia Tech following the shooting massacre in April 2007; and California during the wildfires. She reports daily on breaking medical news and consumer tips on CNN and developed the popular “Empowered Patient” column on CNN.com.

Before joining CNN in 1991, Cohen was a newspaper reporter for States News Service in Washington, D.C., and for the Times Union in Albany, N.Y. Cohen also was associate producer of “Green Watch,” an environmental show on WLVI-TV in Boston.

Cohen has received several awards for her work, and her stories have been honored by the Association of Health Care Journalists, the Newswoman’s Club of New York, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

The Wannamaker Lecture Series, in memory of Lyall Wannamaker Plumb ’55, is an endowed fund made possible by the generosity of the members of the Dana Hall Class of 1955, friends, and the Wannamaker family.

This event will take place in Waldo Auditorium located in the Classroom Building on the Dana Hall campus in Wellesley.  For more information and directions to Dana Hall, please call (781) 235-3010. Find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/DanaHallSchool.