In Memoriam 2019
The CUIMC community extends sympathy to the families and colleagues of these faculty, staff, and students who died this year:
Christopher J. Allegra, MD, VP&S assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, died Sept. 5, 2019. |
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Avichai Assouline, editorial assistant in the CUIMC Office of Communications, died July 21, 2019. |
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David H. Baker, MD, the James Picker Professor Emeritus of Radiology and former chair of the Department of Radiology at VP&S, died Sept. 25, 2019. |
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Myles Behrens, MD, VP&S professor of ophthalmology, died April 5, 2019. |
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Louis Z. Cooper, MD, VP&S professor emeritus of pediatrics, died Oct. 3, 2019. |
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Dominic DeLotto, a rising second-year student at CDM, died in July 2019. |
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John Downey, MD, DPhil, the Simon Baruch Professor Emeritus of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and chair of the Department of Rehabilitation & Regenerative Medicine at VP&S from 1974 until 1991, died Oct. 24, 2019. |
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John T. Flynn, MD, VP&S professor of ophthalmology, died March 19, 2019. |
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Kenneth A. Forde, MD, the Jose M. Ferrer Professor Emeritus of Clinical Surgery at VP&S, died June 2, 2019. |
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Steven I. Gold, DDS, former clinical professor of dental medicine in CDM, died Aug. 6, 2019. |
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Thomas P. Jacobs, MD, the Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor of Medicine at VP&S, died in April 2019. |
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Ann S. Jennings-Purnell, MD, VP&S retired assistant clinical professor of medicine at Harlem Hospital, died March 9, 2019. |
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Judith E. Jones, professor emeritus of clinical population and family health at the Mailman School of Public Health, died March 13, 2019. |
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Donald F. Klein, MD, VP&S professor emeritus of psychiatry, died Aug. 7, 2019. |
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Margaret Morgan Lawrence, MD, former associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harlem Hospital, died Dec. 4, 2019. |
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Barbara W. Low, PhD, VP&S professor emeritus of biochemistry & molecular biophysics, died Jan. 10, 2019. See a related article in the CUIMC Newsroom. |
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James R. Malm, MD, VP&S professor emeritus of surgery, died Sept. 21, 2019. |
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Colleen Ngai, a research worker in the VP&S Department of Medicine, died Nov. 15, 2019. |
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Edward L. Nickoloff, DSc, VP&S professor emeritus of radiology (radiation physics) (in environmental health sciences) at CUMC, died March 11, 2019. |
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Paul J. Poppers, MD, former VP&S faculty member in anesthesiology, died June 10, 2019. |
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Jeffrey Senzer, DDS, a volunteer faculty member in the CDM Division of Endodontics, died March 14, 2019. |
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Robert Richard Strome, MD, VP&S assistant clinical professor of ophthalmology, died May 30, 2019. |
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Theodore Van Itallie, MD, VP&S professor emeritus of medicine, died Sept. 14, 2019. |
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Gerald S. Weinberger, MD, VP&S assistant professor of clinical anesthesiology, died July 10, 2019. |
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Doris L. Wethers, MD, VP&S retired professor of clinical pediatrics at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, died Jan. 28, 2019. |