Radiology

Jill Townsend Red, 76, of Malvern, a nurse and conservationist, died of nonsmoking lung cancer Thursday, Dec. 8, at home. In 1970, Mrs. Red and her husband, Donald E., moved to Radnor when he joined the radiology staff of Lankenau Hospital. He later chaired the radiology department and was president of the medical staff. While her husband pursued his medical career, Mrs. Red raised four sons, worked as a nurse, and became involved in the community. She and other activists fought to protect the former 46-acre Zantzinger estate in Radnor from development.

Physician Henrietta Kotlus Rosenberg of Merion has been named chair of the department of radiology at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. Before coming to the medical center, she was a professor of radiology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She received a medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania and completed a pediatric internship at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia.

Milton Metzman, 72, of Cherry Hill, a longtime chairman of the radiology department at Kennedy Memorial Hospitals-University Medical Center/Stratford, died at home Friday of complications from a series of strokes. He had lived in Cherry Hill for more than 30 years. Dr. Metzman, a physician, led the radiology department from 1968 to 1996, when he retired. He also had a private practice in Stratford. Dr. Metzman expanded the department from a one-person operation to one that included specialists in different areas of radiology, said Louis A. Papa, who was Dr. Metzman's personal physician.

Dr. Paul T. Lloyd, a pioneer in osteopathic radiology, died Saturday. He was 94 and lived in Wayne. Lloyd is credited with being the first to bring the concept of radiation therapy to the osteopathic profession and served as a consultant to osteopathic radiologists throughout the country. He also was an innovator in breast cancer screening programs. He initiated routine X-rays for breast cancer screenings as early as 1930. In 1934 he introduced a post-treatment "follow-up" program for cancer patients, recommending that the follow-up be extended from five years to the patient's lifetime.

Dr. Howard Pollack, an internationally known expert in radiology and urology and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, died Wednesday at Abington Memorial Hospital. Dr. Pollack, 72, helped develop the use of imaging techniques such as ultrasound to diagnose and treat diseases of the urinary and reproductive systems and was a pioneer in using lithotripsy, or shock waves, to crush kidney stones. A longtime resident of Cheltenham who lived more recently in Jenkintown, Dr. Pollack edited the textbook that is considered the bible of the field of uroradiology, and doctors from across the world called on him for advice.

Dr. Geraldine E. Hamilton of Drexel Hill has been named chairwoman of the department of diagnostic radiology at Mercy Catholic Medical Center in Darby. Hamilton will direct the department's work at the medical center's two hospitals, Fitzgerald Mercy in Darby and Misericordia Division in West Philadelphia. Hamilton, an associate professor of radiology at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, has a bachelor's degree from Chestnut Hill College and a medical degree from Women's Medical College in Philadelphia, now the Medical College of Pennsylvania.

Edwin L. Lame, 97, whose nearly 50-year medical career got off to a belated start, died of heart failure Sunday at home in Gladwyne. Dr. Lame had always dreamed of becoming a doctor, his family said, but to please his father he enrolled at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "His father was an executive with R.D. Wood Co. in Florence, N.J.," said his son Anthony, "and he wanted him to follow in the iron-foundry business. In those days, sons usually did what the parents asked.

Paul T. Lloyd, 94, an osteopathic physician who pioneered the use of radiation therapy, died Saturday at his home in Wayne. Dr. Lloyd was professor emeritus of radiology at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM), where he had been teaching since 1924. As early as 1930, Dr. Lloyd initiated routine X-ray screenings at the college to detect breast cancer. In 1934, he introduced a post-treatment follow-up program for cancer patients. "He was the father of radiology here at PCOM," said Dr. Albert D'Alonzo, chief of the college's division of cardiology.

Victor Kremens, 86, of Wyncote, a retired radiologist who helped develop X-rays to detect breast cancer, died Thursday of kidney failure at Abington Memorial Hospital. In the 1950s Dr. Kremens assisted Jacob Gershon-Cohen, head of radiology at Albert Einstein Medical Center, in the pioneering of mammography, an X-ray technique to diagnose breast cancer. In the 1960s, Dr. Kremens established the radiology department at Rolling Hill Hospital in Cheltenham. He maintained a practice on North Broad Street in Philadelphia and later in Elkins Park before retiring in the 1980s.

Joseph J. Darby Jr., 64, of Upper Gwynedd, a biomedical technician who helped develop the diagnostic ultrasound unit at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, died Monday, Sept. 10, of liver failure in the hospice unit at Abington Memorial Hospital. "Joe was at the helm of technical operations for the division of diagnostic ultrasound in the department of radiology," Barry B. Goldberg, a professor of radiology who directs that Jefferson division, said. "Joe has worked with me for 30 years," Goldberg said.

Joseph J. Darby Jr., 64, of Upper Gwynedd, a biomedical technician who helped develop the diagnostic ultrasound unit at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, died Monday, Sept. 10, of liver failure in the hospice unit at Abington Memorial Hospital. "Joe was at the helm of technical operations for the division of diagnostic ultrasound in the department of radiology," Barry B. Goldberg, a professor of radiology who directs that Jefferson division, said. "Joe has worked with me for 30 years," Goldberg said.

WASHINGTON - Isabel Doran is only 4 years old, but she's already had about 15 CT scans - and every one comes with a dose of radiation. "I think there's always that part of you that thinks it's too much," said her mother, Veronica Doran of Burke, Va. Doran is glad the scans have allowed doctors at Children's National Medical Center to monitor Isabel's progress while they treat her kidney cancer. But she's worried about the long-term effects of the scans, which could put Isabel at risk for another cancer later.

Simon M. Berger, 99, of Wyndmoor, a radiologist who did pioneering research on using X-rays to diagnose breast cancer, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on Saturday, Jan. 7, at home. In 1951, Dr. Berger and Dr. Jacob Gershon-Cohen received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the pathology and the technical requirements for breast cancer detection with X-rays at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. The two conducted a course in 1955 on mammography, which uses low doses of radiation to produce an image of the breast on film.

Jill Townsend Red, 76, of Malvern, a nurse and conservationist, died of nonsmoking lung cancer Thursday, Dec. 8, at home. In 1970, Mrs. Red and her husband, Donald E., moved to Radnor when he joined the radiology staff of Lankenau Hospital. He later chaired the radiology department and was president of the medical staff. While her husband pursued his medical career, Mrs. Red raised four sons, worked as a nurse, and became involved in the community. She and other activists fought to protect the former 46-acre Zantzinger estate in Radnor from development.

BELLEVUE, Pa. - Officials at Allegheny General Hospital Suburban Campus near Pittsburgh have filed a notice with the state that its 344 employees could be laid off within 60 days. The 106-year-old hospital, part of the West Penn Allegheny Health System, plans to close its emergency room and stop admitting patients in August. The facility will still offer outpatient radiology, laboratory, dialysis and imaging services, and an urgent-care center will replace the emergency room. The hospital is in Bellevue, just west of the city.

Theodore George Balbus, 83, a Philadelphia-area radiologist for more then 30 years, died June 13 at home in Elkins Park after a two-year battle with prostate cancer. Dr. Balbus was among the first generation of clinical practitioners of atomic medicine and therapeutic radiology. Starting in the mid-1950s, he applied what were then emerging radiation technologies to advance the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1926, Dr. Balbus grew up in Queens and graduated in January 1943 from Stuyvesant High School, where he directed the Arista scholarship and service honor society.

Robert E. Booth, 90, chairman of the radiology department at what is now Underwood-Memorial Hospital for more than 30 years, died of pneumonia March 11 at Waverly Heights, a retirement community in Gladwyne. Dr. Booth, a native of the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia, graduated from Olney High school in 1936 and in 1940 earned a bachelor's degree in English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Along with future sociologist Digby Baltzell, he was a captain of the varsity squash team.

Marvin E. Haskin, 78, of Bryn Mawr, former chairman of the diagnostic radiology department at Hahnemann University Hospital and an inventor of medical devices, died of an apparent stroke March 1 at Bryn Mawr Hospital. Dr. Haskin grew up in Ardmore; Paterson, N.J.; and North Philadelphia. He graduated from Central High School. He earned bachelor's and medical degrees from Temple University and completed an internship and residency in diagnostic radiology at Philadelphia General Hospital.

Henry Pancoast Pendergrass, 83,of Gladwyne, a radiologist and educator, died of pneumonia Sunday at Bryn Mawr Hospital. Dr. Pendergrass graduated from the Haverford School and earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University. He interned at Pennsylvania Hospital and completed a residency in radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania before joining the hospital's staff in 1953. His father, Eugene P. Pendergrass, who was chairman of the radiology department at Penn at the time, pioneered the use of X-rays to diagnose occupational lung disease in miners and other workers exposed to toxic materials.

John S. Leigh Jr., 69, a radiology scientist at the University of Pennsylvania whose research on magnetic resonance technology drastically improved its diagnostic use, died of heart disease March 10 at his home in East Mount Airy. "Jack was a very special and eccentric scientist," said Stanley Baum, former chairman of Penn's radiology department. "He was a pioneer in biomedical imaging. He developed the use of infrared light to create a better image of the body without radiation from X-rays and CT scans, and in one-fourth the time of a conventional MRI. " Dr. Leigh, an inspirational professor at Penn for nearly 30 years, founded the university's Metabolic Magnetic Resonance Research and Computing Center in 1984.