Burton D Cohen

Burton Cohen joined the Medica Foundation Board in 2003. Mr. Cohen is active in numerous community activities. He is a trustee of the University of St. Thomas, a life trustee of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and has served on several boards and advisory boards, including the University of Minnesota Foundation, the Minnesota Opera, the One Percent Club, the Minnesota Zoo Foundation, the Minneapolis Foundation, and Temple Israel. Mr. Cohen retired from the Medica Board of Directors in December 2012 after nearly 10 years of service. A publisher and journalist, Burton Cohen founded MSP Communications in 1978 and is the former owner and publisher of Mpls./St. Paul Magazine, Twin Cities Business Monthly, and several other publications. Earlier in his career, he served as president of Modern Medicine Publications, a group of international medical and dental journals. When Modern Medicine was sold, he continued to lead the publishing group, first for the New York Times, and later, for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.