ARTHUR COHEN

1942 - 2022

COHEN--Dr. Arthur H., passed away on May 17, 2022, at age 80. Born May 15, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York, to Reuben and Frances Cohen, the second of four boys, he was a world-renowned renal pathologist who stumbled into his career and turned it into his lifelong passion and purpose. A proud graduate of Midwood High School (1959), Brooklyn College (1963), and SUNY Buffalo Medical School (1967), Arthur married Susan Lovinger, in 1964 during his time in medical school, and they had three daughters. After medical school in Buffalo, Arthur started his pathology residency at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York and completed it in 1972 at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where he remained on the faculty for 21 years. He then moved to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for an additional 21 years, where he was a Full Professor of Pathology and Medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine and a Professor of Pathology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, eventually earning "emeritus" status. Arthur enjoyed a distinguished medical career as a self- taught renal pathologist. He began the renal pathology division at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and, after the move to Cedars-Sinai as Director of Renal Pathology, expanded it to one of the largest such clinical services in the United States. He also served as Director of Anatomic Pathology at Cedars- Sinai. Arthur was deeply committed to medical education and was a superlative teacher, lecturing on renal pathology around the globe, educating renal pathology fellows at Harbor-UCLA and Cedars-Sinai, and participating on the American Society of Nephrology Post-graduate Education Committee. He was a founding member of the Renal Pathology Society and a member of the International Society of Nephrology Global Outreach, which serves to educate and expand care for kidney disease patients, including renal pathology, in medically underserved areas. Arthur also was a successful clinical researcher, describing new entities such as IgM nephropathy, and was one of the first to recognize HIV-associated nephropathy (in 1988). In recognition of his many contributions to education and research, he was the recipient of the Jacob Churg award from the Renal Pathology Society and the Gift of Life award from the National Kidney Foundation. Arthur received requests to lecture often, and he developed a love of traveling around the world. Susan accompanied him on many of his trips until his daughters were deemed old enough to be his travel companions. Dedicated to his wife; three daughters, Cheryl Bloom (husband Robert Bloom), Gail Cohen (husband Paul Kostuchenko), and Marjorie Cohen (husband David Kuchler); and two granddaughters, Hannah and Lauren Kostuchenko. Arthur remained close to his brothers, David, Paul, and Michael; and his extended family. Arthur was known to be extremely generous with his medical expertise. He took the time to speak with anyone who sought his medical and career advice: close and extended family, friends, neighbors, members of his synagogue, daughters' friends, friends of friends, and so on. In lieu of flowers, please donate to the National Kidney Foundation, Alzheimer's Association, or anywhere else that makes you think about Arthur.