Faculty

John F. Bertles, MD, professor emeritus of medicine, died April 6, 2014.

David M. Carberry, MD, PhD, retired associate clinical professor of surgery at Harlem Hospital Center, died April 17, 2014.

Edgar M. Housepian, MD, professor emeritus of clinical neurological surgery, died Nov. 14, 2014. (See Alumni In Memoriam, Class of 1953, for more information.)

Dolores Kreisman, PhD, associate clinical professor of medical psychology (in psychiatry), died Aug. 20, 2014.

Kevin L. Macken, MD, retired associate clinical professor of radiology, died Feb. 9, 2014.

Elizabeth “Ellie” Paras, MD, assistant professor of medicine, died Dec. 4, 2014.

Gene-Ann Polk, MD, professor emeritus of clinical pediatrics and longtime Harlem Hospital director of pediatrics and ambulatory care, died Jan. 3, 2015.

John C. Sinclair, MD, former associate professor of pediatrics, died May 2, 2014.

Harold F. Spalter, MD, professor emeritus of clinical ophthalmology, died July 4, 2014.

Mervyn Susser, MB, BCH, the Sergievsky Professor Emeritus of Public Health (Epidemiology) and founder of Columbia’s Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, died Aug. 14, 2014.