May Cohen


May Cohen, OC is a Canadian physician and educator.

Biography

May Lipshitz was born in 1931 in Montreal, Quebec. She is the daughter of Sam and Manya Lipshitz. She was raised in Toronto, Ontario. She attended the University of Toronto medical school and graduated at the top of her class. She went on to practise as a family physician in Toronto for 20 years. Then, in 1977, she joined the Health Sciences faculty at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. She was associate dean of Health Services from 1991 to 1996.
At McMaster, she established the Women's Health Office. She also instigated the creation of a women's health curriculum in Ontario medical schools.
She married Dr. Gerry Cohen; the couple had three children.

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