In Memoriam 2019

Christopher J. Allegra(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, VP&S assistant clinical professor of psychiatry, died Sept. 5, 2019.

Avichai Assouline(link is external and opens in a new window), editorial assistant in the CUIMC Office of Communications, died July 21, 2019.

David H. Baker(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, the James Picker Professor Emeritus of Radiology and former chair of the Department of Radiology at VP&S, died Sept. 25, 2019.

Myles Behrens(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, VP&S professor of ophthalmology, died April 5, 2019.

Louis Z. Cooper(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, VP&S professor emeritus of pediatrics, died Oct. 3, 2019.

Dominic DeLotto(link is external and opens in a new window), a rising second-year student at CDM, died in July 2019.

John Downey(link is external and opens in a new window), 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.

John T. Flynn(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, VP&S professor of ophthalmology, died March 19, 2019.

Kenneth A. Forde(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, the Jose M. Ferrer Professor Emeritus of Clinical Surgery at VP&S, died June 2, 2019.

Steven I. Gold(link is external and opens in a new window), DDS, former clinical professor of dental medicine in CDM, died Aug. 6, 2019.

Thomas P. Jacobs(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, the Roy and Diana Vagelos Professor of Medicine at VP&S, died in April 2019.

Ann S. Jennings-Purnell(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, VP&S retired assistant clinical professor of medicine at Harlem Hospital, died March 9, 2019.

Judith E. Jones(link is external and opens in a new window), professor emeritus of clinical population and family health at the Mailman School of Public Health, died March 13, 2019.

Donald F. Klein(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, VP&S professor emeritus of psychiatry, died Aug. 7, 2019.

Margaret Morgan Lawrence(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, former associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harlem Hospital, died Dec. 4, 2019.

Barbara W. Low(link is external and opens in a new window), PhD, VP&S professor emeritus of biochemistry & molecular biophysics, died Jan. 10, 2019. See a related article in the CUIMC Newsroom.

James R. Malm(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, VP&S professor emeritus of surgery, died Sept. 21, 2019.

Colleen Ngai(link is external and opens in a new window), a research worker in the VP&S Department of Medicine, died Nov. 15, 2019.

Edward L. Nickoloff(link is external and opens in a new window), DSc, VP&S professor emeritus of radiology (radiation physics) (in environmental health sciences) at CUMC, died March 11, 2019.

Paul J. Poppers(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, former VP&S faculty member in anesthesiology, died June 10, 2019. 

Jeffrey Senzer, DDS, a volunteer faculty member in the CDM Division of Endodontics, died March 14, 2019.

Robert Richard Strome(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, VP&S assistant clinical professor of ophthalmology, died May 30, 2019.

Theodore Van Itallie(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, VP&S professor emeritus of medicine, died Sept. 14, 2019.

Gerald S. Weinberger(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, VP&S assistant professor of clinical anesthesiology, died July 10, 2019.

Doris L. Wethers(link is external and opens in a new window), MD, VP&S retired professor of clinical pediatrics at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, died Jan. 28, 2019.