COM Outlook Winter 2019

NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | 21 writing curricula,” said Cohen, who quickly be- came an integral part of the fledgling college. “I also wrote our initial Area Health Education Center (AHEC) grant and cowrote our predoctoral and postdoctoral grants. I’m proud to say, we were the first osteopathic medical school in the nation to get an AHEC grant.” As new schools were added to the educational mix, Cohen played a key role in their development as well. In 1990, he was named director of instruc- tional development at Southeastern University of the Health Sciences—the precursor to the NSU Health Professions Division (HPD)—and served a year as dean of what was then known as the College of Allied Health in 1992. That same year, he also assumed the post of vice provost, which continued when Southeastern University of the Health Sciences merged with Nova University in 1994. Even when he pushed into his 80s, Cohen main- tained a vigorous workload, which included teach- ing the osteopathic college’s medical ethics course, overseeing the HPD Testing Center, providing education and research seminars to HPD faculty members, observing faculty members’ instruction in the various HPD colleges, and providing key feedback to those he evaluated. Before he retired from Nova Southeastern Uni- versity, Cohen joked, “I may be an antique in terms of my chronological age, but not in my social and emotional age. I’m enjoying my journey through life to the fullest extent possible.” † (Significant portions of this article were reprinted from previous COM Outlook interviews with Cohen.) “Dr. Cohen was incredibly supportive and kind, and his really random jokes and puzzles made me laugh so hard. His presence will be dearly missed.” — Nicole Cook, Ph.D., M.P.A. Associate Professor of Public Health “Dr. Cohen loved to talk about his very successful and happy marriage. He told me how lucky he was to have such a great wife and soul mate.” — Hady Masri, D.O. Assistant Professor of Geriatrics “Stan was unfailingly willing and ready to lecture in our classroom, chat with our members, and offer an ear if anyone needed to talk. He was a kind, funny, gentle man who will be missed by many.” — Linda E. Maurice, M.A. Community Education and Lifelong Learning Director “There are few people who make you feel better every time you speak to them. Stanley Cohen was one of those people. Always a kind word, always a ridiculous joke, always encouragement. He made all of us feel good about our journey.” — Elaine M. Wallace, D.O., M.S. 4 KPCOM Dean Left to right: The Cohens in 1980; Cohen’s family turned out in force to celebrate Stanley Cohen’s (front row, left) NSU retirement at a farewell party held in the Terry Building on February 2, 2018.