In Memoriam, Melvin M. Grumbach (1925–2016)
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MelvinM. Grumbach, MD, widely regarded as the world’s foremost pediatric endocrinologist, died October 4, 2016, at the age of 90 (Fig. 1). Beloved by all and affectionately known as Mel, he was the Edward B. Shaw Professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus, former Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics (1966–1986) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a former President of The Endocrine Society. Mel was born December 21, 1925, in Brooklyn. He excelled academically and was the first in his family to attend college, receiving his MD from Columbia University in 1948, at age 22. Following an internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York (1948–1949), he studied pediatrics at Columbia (1949–1951), and served 2 years as a Captain in the United States Air Force (1951–1953). Assigned to the Institute of Nuclear Studies at Oak Ridge Tennessee and then to the Air Force’s Biological Laboratories at Fort Detrick, Maryland, militarymedical service exposedMel to exciting new Figure 1. Melvin M. Grumbach, MD 1925–2016.
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Melvin M. Grumbach 1925-2016.
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