Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead

The Right Honourable The Lord Cohen of Birkenhead CH FRCP
Born	21 February 1900
Died	7 August 1977
Education	University of Liverpool
Known for	President of the British Medical Association (1951), President of the General Medical Council (1961), President of the Royal Society of Medicine (1971)

Henry Cohen, 1st Baron Cohen of Birkenhead CH FRCP (21 February 1900 – 7 August 1977) was a British physician, doctor and lecturer. He was famous for his Harveian Oration at the Royal College of Physicians in 1970, on the motion of blood in the veins. Cohen was elected to the chair of medicine at the University of Liverpool in 1934. When the Central Health Services Council was formed in 1949, he became its vice-chairman, and chairman in 1957. Knighted in 1949, he was President of the British Medical Association from 1951. After a coronary thrombosis in the following year, Cohen decided to devote his life to the greater work of teaching. He was raised to the peerage as Baron Cohen of Birkenhead, of Birkenhead in the County Palatine of Chester,^[1] on 16 June 1956 and was elected President of the General Medical Council in 1961. In 1964, he became President of the Royal Society of Medicine, receiving the society's gold medal in 1971. He also opened the assembly hall of the King David School, Liverpool.