In Memoriam 2023

Vincent Beltrani, MD, retired associate clinical professor of dermatology in VP&S, died June 24, 2023.

Stanley Bone, MD, a faculty member in the Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, died March 21, 2023.

Paul Ellner, PhD, VP&S professor emeritus of microbiology and of pathology, died April 8, 2023.

Filippo Giancotti, MD, PhD, the Herbert and Florence Irving Professor of Basic Science in Genetics & Development (in the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center), died July 14, 2023.

Samantha Claire Hassett, research assistant in the VP&S Department of Psychiatry, died April 11, 2023.

Iksung Jin, PhD, a research scientist in the VP&S Department of Neuroscience, died Oct. 6, 2023.

David Y. Levine, MD, a faculty member in the Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, died Jan. 2, 2023.

Shearwood McClelland, MD, retired director of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Harlem Hospital Center and VP&S associate professor of clinical orthopedic surgery, died Aug. 13, 2023.

Colin McCord, MD, VP&S retired faculty member in surgery at Harlem Hospital Center, died March 11, 2023.

Mynetta McCutcheon, MS, promotions specialist in the VP&S Office of Academic Affairs, died March 30, 2023.

Mitzi Pelle, MLS, executive assistant to the VP&S vice dean of academic affairs, died June 1, 2023. 

Michael R. Rosen, MD, the Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Professor of Pharmacology and professor of pediatrics at VP&S, died Jan. 6, 2023.

William Rosner, MD, professor emeritus of medicine at VP&S, died May 8, 2023.

Ralph L. Sacco, MD, VP&S adjunct professor of neurology, died Jan. 17, 2023.

John Schullinger, MD, VP&S professor emeritus of clinical surgery, died Nov. 13, 2023.

Ruby T. Senie, PhD, professor emeritus of epidemiology in the Mailman School of Public Health, died Sept. 26, 2023.

David Shaffer, MD, who retired from VP&S as the Irving Philips Professor of Child Psychiatry, professor of psychiatry and pediatrics, and chief of the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, died Oct. 15, 2023.

Mark Francis Sorensen, MD, VP&S associate clinical professor of psychiatry, died Jan. 16, 2023.

Barbara Stanley, PhD, VP&S professor of medical psychology (in psychiatry), died Jan. 26, 2023.

Michael Stone, MD, VP&S professor of clinical psychiatry, died Dec. 6, 2023.

Peter Strube, DNP, assistant professor of clinical nursing in the School of Nursing, died Dec. 11, 2023.

Teresa “Teri” Wood, manager of the cytology lab in the VP&S Department of Pathology & Cell Biology, died Jan. 12, 2023.

Earl Zimmerman, MD, former professor of neurology at VP&S, died Dec. 26, 2023.