2023 In Memoriam Save

In 2023, too many of our rheumatology colleagues passed away. Here is an incomplete list of our revered fellow practitioners, mentors, role-models, and researchers.

These clinicians were responsible for the care of hundreds of thousands with MSK problems, while driving the scientific advances that will shape the lives of millions in the future. They did the painstakingly hard work of caring for the most complex of medical disorders and did so with zeal, wonder and love for their patients or quest.

Invoke their names and memories frequently as they are the foundation upon which we rheumatologists proudly stand.

K. Frank Austen, MD (6.23.2023)  Harvard, Boston, MA

Henry Vann Austin, MD (2.25.2023)  Pinehurst, NC

Richard D. Brasington Jr., MD (4.30.2023)  Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO  

Olivia Corral Gomez, MD (5.24.2023)  Whittier, CA

Joseph Flood, MD (7.13.2023) Ohio State University. Columbus, OH

Luis Fernandez-Herlihy, MD  (1.23.2023)  Bedford, MA

Edward Joel Fudman, MD  (8.17.2023) Austin, TX

Leroy Henry Hunninghake, MD (7.19.2023) Princeton, NJ

Verinder Nandkishore Khanna, MD (6.22.2023)  Rothesay, New Brunswick, Canada

Rodanthi Kitridou, MD (7.6.2023)  Altadena, CA 

John Plunkett Leddy, MD (3.19.2023) University of Rochester, NY

Gerald H. Leventhal, MD (3.24.2024) Scarsdale, NY

Diane Carol Narhi, MD (5.13.2023) UCLA, Simi Valley, CA

Jacqueline "Jackie" Pogoda, MD  (2.23.2023)  Charleroi, PA

 Philip Robinson, MB ChB, PhD, FRACP (1.11.23) University of Queensland, Australia

Col. Michael Glenn Rossman, MD (7.20.2023) Baylor Scott & White, College Station, TX

Naomi Rothfield, MD (7.2.2023) University of Connecticut, New Haven, CT

Eric H. Sasso, MD (1.22.2023)  La Jolla, CA

Sirimas Sirisuth Snyder, MD (10.25.2023) Niles, MI

Christopher Gist Stephens, MD  (6.14.2023)  Nashville, TN

George R. Thompson, MD   (11.12.2023) Ann Arbor, MI

Pietro (Peter) Vito, MD (5.3.2023)

Noranna B. Warner, MD, (5.8.2023) University of Houston, TX

Frederick Wolfe, MD (9.5.2023) Wichita, KS

Kenneth P. Wolski, MD (5.30.2023) Carversville, PA