In Memoriam 2017

The CUIMC community extends sympathy to the family and colleagues of faculty and staff who died this year.

Morton Aronson(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at VP&S, died June 22, 2017.

Walter Berdon(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, professor emeritus of pediatric radiology (in radiology and pediatrics), died Aug. 6, 2017. Read more about his impact.(link is external and opens in a new window)

John H. Bryant(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, former director of the School of Public Health at Columbia, died July 5, 2017. He was a 1953 graduate of VP&S.

Ruth Dickinson(link is external and opens in a new window), former director of the Program in Physical Therapy, died Jan. 24, 2017.

Renee Daiuta Feuerbach(link is external and opens in a new window), PhD, former assistant professor of clinical nursing who directed the adult nurse practitioner program, died July 10, 2017. She earned two degrees from Columbia Nursing (BS in 1986 and MS in 1990).

Alvin Grayson(link is external and opens in a new window), DDS, clinical professor of dental medicine, died Feb. 16, 2017.

James F. Hammill(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, professor emeritus of clinical neurology, died June 21, 2017.

Dave Hunter(link is external and opens in a new window), a junior accountant in the Mailman School of Public Health’s Department of Sociomedical Sciences who had supported the Community Health Advisory and Information Network since 2000, died Feb. 17, 2017.

Raphael Jewelewicz(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, retired faculty member in obstetrics & gynecology, died July 21, 2017. Read a 1970 New York Times article(link is external and opens in a new window) published after Dr. Jewelewicz oversaw the birth of the Kienast quintuplets, America’s second set of surviving quintuplets.

Virginia Kanick(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, retired clinical professor of radiology at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt, died Nov. 15, 2017. She was a 1951 graduate of VP&S.

Ronald Lewis Katz(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, former professor of anesthesiology, died May 15, 2017.

Peter Y. Kim, MD, PhD, associate professor of neurology at CUMC, died Dec. 5, 2017.

Richard J. Kitz(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, former associate professor of anesthesiology, died Sept. 19, 2017. A video tribute can be viewed here(link is external and opens in a new window).

Dennis Lee, DDS, assistant clinical professor of dental medicine, died Oct. 12, 2017.

Alan Levenstein(link is external and opens in a new window), a senior lecturer at the Mailman School of Public Health, died Nov. 6, 2017.

Henry S. “Harry” Lodge(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, the Robert L. Burch Family Professor of Medicine and chair and CEO of New York Physicians, LLP, died March 10, 2017. He was a 1985 VP&S graduate.

Roger A. MacKinnon(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, professor emeritus of clinical psychiatry, died July 24, 2017. He was the first fulltime director of the Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and a 1950 VP&S graduate.

Raymond Raskin(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, former member of the psychiatry faculty, died April 8, 2017.

Lewis P. “Bud” Rowland, MD, chair of neurology at VP&S and director of the Neurological Institute of New York for 25 years, died March 16, 2017. Read more about Dr. Rowland in Columbia Medicine magazine.

George Smartt, retired head of public safety at CUIMC, died Sept. 22, 2017.

Frank Rees Smith(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, longtime professor of clinical medicine at VP&S, died Jan. 16, 2017. He was a 1962 graduate of VP&S.

Gail Sorrel-Mosk(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, assistant professor of radiology at CUMC, died Sept. 19, 2017.

Virginia Warner, DrPH, associate in clinical psychiatry in the Division of Epidemiology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Department of Psychiatry, died June 10, 2017.

Walter A. Wichern Jr.(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, professor emeritus of clinical surgery, died March 27, 2017.

John A. Wood(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, retired clinical professor of medicine, died Sept. 17, 2017.