In Memoriam 2022

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

CUIMC extends sympathy to the families and colleagues of these community members who died this year:

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.

John Driscoll Jr.

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

Mieczyslaw Finster

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

Blair Ford

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

Ray Gambino

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.

Kristine Gebbie

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

Mark Heaney

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

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

Donald Kornfeld

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

Sally Ann Lederman

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.

Eugene Litvak

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

Alan Seplowitz
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