In Memoriam 2022

Lucien J. Côté, MD, VP&S professor emeritus of neurology, died Dec. 21, 2022.

John M. Driscoll, MD, the Reuben S. Carpentier Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and chair of the VP&S Department of Pediatrics from 1992 to 2007, died Sept. 9, 2022.

Mieczyslaw Finster, MD, VP&S professor emeritus of anesthesiology, died Sept. 11, 2022.

Blair Ford, MD, VP&S professor of neurology at CUMC, died Aug. 25, 2022.

Salvatore Raymond Gambino, MD, former faculty member in the VP&S Department of Pathology & Cell Biology, died Jan. 1, 2022.

Kristine Gebbie, PhD, the Elizabeth Standish Gill Chair at Columbia Nursing from 1995 to 2008 and director of the school’s Center for Health Policy from 1996 to 2008, died May 17, 2022. She served as the nation’s first AIDS czar in the early 1990s.

Philip Lamar Graham III, MD, former associate professor of pediatrics at VP&S, died July 17, 2022.

Margaret Caroline Heagarty, MD, VP&S professor emeritus of pediatrics and director of pediatrics at Harlem Hospital Center for 22 years, died Dec. 23, 2022.

Mark L. Heaney, MD, PhD, VP&S associate professor of medicine at CUMC, died Aug. 17, 2022.

Wylie C. Hembree III, MD, retired faculty member in the VP&S Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, died Dec. 16, 2022.

Steven R. Isaacson, MD, professor emeritus of radiation oncology (in neurological surgery) at VP&S, died July 24, 2022.

Albrecht Kellerer, PhD, VP&S professor of biophysics from 1968 to 1978 at the Columbia University Radiological Research Laboratory (now called the Center for Radiological Research), died July 31, 2022.

Donald Kornfeld, MD, VP&S professor emeritus of psychiatry at CUMC, died July 5, 2022.

Sally Ann Lederman, PhD, retired VP&S faculty member in the Institute of Human Nutrition, died in May 2022.

Eugene Litvak, PhD, professor emeritus and former head of what is now the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, died Feb. 5, 2022.

Anke L. Nolting, PhD, longtime associate dean and executive director of development and alumni relations at VP&S, died Oct. 12, 2022.

Eugene Pantuck, MD, professor emeritus of anesthesiology at VP&S, died June 19, 2022.

Samuel Quiah, associate director of the Center for Education Research and Evaluation at VP&S, died March 17, 2022.

Theodore Robinson, MD, retired VP&S professor of clinical radiology, died Jan. 1, 2022.

Andrea Schaaf, MPH, strategic information specialist at ICAP, died Nov. 18, 2022.

Alan Seplowitz, MD, retired VP&S associate professor of medicine at CUMC, died Feb. 24, 2022.

Bennett Stein, MD, the Byron Stookey Professor Emeritus of Neurological Surgery and former chair of the VP&S Department of Neurological Surgery, died Oct. 7, 2022.

Ronald L. Van Heertum, MD, retired VP&S professor of radiology, died Dec. 7, 2022.