Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Alexander Cohen is a Clinical Professor of Medicine and a former Chancellor at the University.

He was Chair of the Finance, Investment and Resources Committees at UWA, Director of Clinical Training at Hollywood Private Hospital and Director of Postgraduate Medical Education at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.

Professor Cohen has held various positions within the community as Convenor and Chair of the Specialist Medical Review Committee for the Commonwealth of Australia Department of Veterans Affairs, Director of the Risk Management Program for the Medical Defence Association of WA, President of the Diabetes Research Foundation of WA and Director of the National Board for Diabetes.

He is past President of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and of the Australian Medical Association (WA), Emeritus Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and Royal Perth Hospital, a Fellow of the Australian Medical Association and Wolfson College Oxford, and a past Research Fellow at Harvard University Medical School.

In 1997, Professor Cohen was awarded an AO for services to medicine, particularly in the field of endocrinology, the arts and to the community and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University in 2002. He is a great supporter of the School of Music and Patron in Chief of the Callaway Foundation and President of the Friends of Music.