LOCAL DOCTOR HONORED FOR ACHIEVEMENT

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Dr. Charles Cozean Jr. of Cape Girardeau received an Alumni Achievement Award Saturday from Westminster College at Fulton.

Cozean was one of six alumni to receive the school's highest award Saturday.

The award is for career or community achievement by alumni.

Cozean, an ophthalmologist, majored in chemistry and biology at Westminster. He earned his medical degree at the University of Kansas School of Medicine.

He has been involved extensively in laser eye surgery.

He is a member of several medical groups and research foundations, and serves on the medical staffs of three hospitals.

He has served as a faculty member for international courses at the University of Lublin in Poland and Friendship Hospital in Beijing, China.

He also aided in the establishment of a National Public Radio station at Southeast Missouri State University.