Dr. Cohn is a world leading expert in muscle disease in childhood. He was trained in Germany and the USA, moving in 2011 to the University of Toronto to assume a leadership role in genetics at the Hospital for Sick Children. His accomplishments are many and varied and include excellence in clinical care and patient advocacy, teaching of medical and biomedical research trainees at all levels and cutting edge research in his field. He had rapidly emerged as a health care leader with a strong vision of the direction(s) of health care in the short and long term.