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 CORDAY Eliot

Born Elkan Cohen.

Date of birth : June 29, 1913, Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada.

Date of death : February 8, 1999, Los Angeles ().


Profession cardiologist.

Tel : CR 5-5181.

Addresses

* 1950 : 10589 Kinnard Avenue, Los Angeles
* 1951 : 300 South Beverly Drive, Los Angeles.


Story

In 1940 he married in Canada, Marian Katherine Lipkind (August 23, 1918, Alberta, Canada-May 19, 2018, Los Angeles)

().
They had 2 children, Joanne Kathie (born on July 4, 1944, Edmonton, Canada)() and Stephen Richard (born on July 17, 1948, Los Angeles) who would become cardiologist in Los Angeles

().

He spent more than 50 years at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and invented the still-experimental retroperfusion

for treating heart attacks (,).

He came to California in 1947 (,,), following work in New York at Mt.Sinai and Bellevue hospitals.

He became US citizen in 1953 ().

A noted physician, teacher, researcher and mentor, he was past president of the American College of Cardiology

 (), a two-term member of the National Advisory Heart and Lung Council of the National Institutes of Health and national consultant in cardiology to the surgeon general.
Until his illness, he was a senior attending physician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and clinical professor of medicine at the UCLA School of Medicine.

He played a major role in conveying American knowledge about cardiology to other countries, particularly underdeveloped ones.

He was the "heart doctor" of many celebrities ().


Link with Marilyn

From 1948 until the middle of the 50's, he was one of Marilyn's doctor.

In an interview given to Anthony Summers, he explained why he stopped treating Marilyn : "I gave up every medical relation with her because she didn't want to consult a good psychiatrist. People would better understand her death if they would have heard what she said in my office. She did several suicide attempts, more than what we know. In 1954, she took drugs - hard thing, associated with sedatives. At the end, I told her that I didn't want to be the witness odf what was going to happen".





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