Richard M. Cohen is a former senior producer for CBS News and CNN, a three-time Emmy Award winner, and the recipient of numerous honors in journalism. He is a contributor to the "Health and Fitness" section of the New York Times and lives with his family outside New York City. Cohen is the author of Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness -- A Reluctant Memoir. Blindsided is his story of coping with multiple sclerosis and later colon cancer, and the effect of chronic illness on his life with wife Meredith Vieira (host of ABC's The View) and their three children.