Members of our osteopathic community are the best and brightest. We honor the passing of these POMA members. We recognize their contributions and legacies to the profession and to POMA. To friends and families, we offer sympathies.

The following list of recently deceased osteopathic physicians includes links to obituaries and online memorials if they’re available. Readers can notify the POMA of their deceased colleagues by sending an email to [email protected]. 

Editor’s note: If you’d like to honor a colleague with a memorial contribution to the POMA Foundation, you can do so here.

November 2024 - February 2025

• William L. Bollman, III, DO / PCOM-1960

• Melvin D. Gerber, DO / CCOM-1968

• Myron D. Hass, DO / KCOM-1979

• Samuel R. Mowery, DO / PCOM-1961

• Morris I. Rossman, DO / PCOM-1969

• Richard Schwartzman, DO / PCOM-1966

• Stanford A. Shor, DO (POMA President) / PCOM-1964

• John G. Shutack, DO / PCOM-1969

• Earl F. Zipin, DO / KCOM-1968

September 2024 - October 2024

• David B. Arsht, DO / KCUCOM-1972

• David W. Bashline, DO / ATSUKCOM-1961

• Alexander Bunt, Jr., DO / PCOM-1977
  
  

• Vincent A. Ciambotti, DO / PCOM-1968

• Randy A. Cohen, DO / KCUMBCOM - 1985

• Richard E. Heller, DO / CCOM-1953

• Edward M. Hobbs. Jr., DO / ATSUKCOM-1962 

• Bernard S. Hoyt, DO / ATSUKCOM-1953

• Preston C. Kuptsow, DO / PCOM-1968

• Gary A. Lease, DO / ATSUKCOM-1974

• Howard S. Lubin, DO / PCOM-1955

• Nicholas M. Renzi, Jr., DO / PCOM-1961

• Margaret M. Still, DO / PCOM-1991

May 2024 - August 2024

• Charles A. Depfer, DO / PCOM-1958

• Harvey A. Harris, DO (POMA President) / PCOM-1966

• Howard L. Hausher, DO / PCOM-1954

• Albert S. Kroser, DO / PCOM-1958

• Michael J. Krug, DO / PCOM-1976

• Vaughn R. Long, DO / DMUCOM-1956

• Richard D. Lynch, DO / PCOM-1966

• Theodore P. Mauer, DO / PCOM-1962 

• Herbert Moss, DO / DMUCOM-1961

• Donald C. Moyer, DO / LECOM-2003

• John C. Munshower, DO / PCOM-1991

• Harold A. Polan, DO / PCOM-1946

• Arthur C. Schenck, DO / ATSUKCOM-1964

• Gerson Schwartz, DO / PCOM-1953

• Jeffrey S. Selk, DO / PCOM-1980

• Milton D. Soiferman, DO / PCOM-1978

• John S. Stevens, Jr., DO / PCOM-1973

• David C. Underwood, DO / DMUCOM-1997

• Chad E. Walls, DO / LECOMB-2010

• Wendell M. Waties, DO / PCOM-1959

• Walter O. Willoughby, Jr., DO / PCOM-1957

March 2024 - April 2024

• Mark B. Abraham, DO / PCOM-2003

• Jeffrey L. Drobil, DO / PCOM-1994

• Joseph P. Hutsko, DO / ATSUKCOM-1967

• Maxwell Stepanuk, Jr., DO / PCOM-1971

November 2023 - February 2024

• Charles F. Breuninger, DO / PCOM-1950

• Charles R. Bridges, DO / PCOM-1964

• Thomas R. Czarnecki, DO / KCUMBCOM-1961

• Gordon L. Hillegas, DO / PCOM-1955

• William G. McDowell, DO / PCOM-1954

• Anthony V. Mosca, DO / DMU - 1969

• Clifford N. Steinig, DO / KCUMBCOM-1971

August 2023 - October 2023

• Paul W. Herr, DO / PCOM-1952 

• John Veronesi, DO / ATSUKCOM-1960

May 2023 - July 2023

• Ronald A. Esper, DO, POMA Past President / ATSUKCOM-1961

• Michael P. Najarian, DO / PCOM-1977

• George L. Weber, DO / PCOM-1981

March 2023 - April 2023

• Bernard J. Armster, DO / PCOM-1964

• Ernest J. Davis, Jr., DO / ATSUKCOM-1976

• Katherine M. England, DO / PCOM-1954

• Robert M. Saks, DO / PCOM-1969

• William G. Wert, Jr., DO / LECOM-2017

December 2022 - February 2023

• Daniel D. Dowd, Jr., DO / DMUCOMS-1978

• Leonard M. Evans, DO / PCOM-1984

• Dean M. Godfrey, DO / LECOM-2000

• Joseph V. Koehler, DO / PCOM-1960

• Gregory J. McGinley, DO / PCOM-1976

• Brendan J. O'Brien, DO / PCOM-1964

• David R. Phillips, Sr., DO / PCOM-1967

• Stuart A. Slavin, DO / DMUCOMS-1973

• Paul D. Williams, DO / PCOM-1986

August 2022 - November 2022

• Robert A. Barnes, DO / PCOM-1969

• Robert M. Fogel, DO / PCOM-1958

• Murry Levyn, DO / PCOM-1946

• Howard M. Listwa, DO / PCOM-1972

• Gerald L. Melamut, DO / PCOM-1965

• John J. Nicklas, DO / KCOM - 1967

• Keith A. Waddle, DO / PCOM-1988

• Harold F. White, DO, POMA Past President / PCOM-1961

May 2022 - July 2022

• Martin Bisk, DO / PCOM-1958

• John Callahan, DO, POMA Past President / PCOM-1967

• Stanley W. Doe, DO / PCOM-1949

• Saul Jeck, DO / DMUCOMS-1957

• Conrad G. Maulfair, Jr. / ATSUKCOM-1963

• Frank C. Noonan, Jr., DO / PCOM-1977

• Maureen A. Sestito, DO / PCOM-2002

• Anna Marie Sullivan, DO / DMUCOM-1985

• Michael D. Williams, DO / PCOM-1996

February 2022 - April 2022

• Mark D. Baker, DO / DMUCOMS-1976

• Joel P. Chack, DO / PCOM-1981

• C. Ross Darlington, Jr., DO / PCOM-1976

• Carl G. DiJoseph, DO / PCOM-1977

• Ruth E. Frye, DO / PCOM-1984

• Albert S. Heyman, DO / PCOM-1945

• Allan W. Levy, DO / PCOM-1960

• M. Lee Loser, Jr., DO / PCOM-1952

• Kevin A. Mullins, DO / DMUCOMS-1973

• Alan Popick, DO / DMUCOMS-1973

• Marshall H. Sager, DO / PCOM-1967

• Robert L. Stremmel, DO / PCOM-1970

• Stephen D. Wiener, DO / DMUCOMS-1986

November 2021 - January 2022

• Gregory P. Bach, DO / DMUCOMS-1993

• Robert J. Czwalina, DO / PCOM-1978

• Samuel D. Looker, DO / PCOM-1968

August 2021 - October 2021

• Frances J. Cinelli, DO / PCOM-1958

• John D. Conroy, Jr., DO / PCOM-1981

• Michael Cordas, Jr., DO / PCOM - 1967

• Henry J. Dubiel, DO / PCOM - 1981

• Harold E. Feiler, DO / PCOM-1980

• Michael P. Kuniak, DO / PCOM - 1981

• David M. Loss, DO / PCOM - 1978

• Raymond William Nissley, DO / PCOM-1987

• Michelle D. O'Meara, DO / OSUCOM - 2003

June 2021 - July 2021

• Edward J.P. Ciecko, DO / PCOM - 1985

• Adam T. Dialectos, DO / PCOM - 2014

• Robert C. Madonna, Sr., DO / PCOM - 1962

• Michael A. Roth, DO / DMUCOMS - 1963

March 2021 - May 2021

• Margaret B. Boufal, DO/ PCOM - 1993

• Matthew Brackbill, DO / LECOM - 2021

• Vernon Buckley, DO, POMA Past President / CCOM - 1956

• David J. Ferner, DO / PCOM - 1987

• Elias J. Isaac, DO / PCOM - 1964

• Antoinette C. Kruc, DO / PCOM - 1977

• Joseph J. Kuchinski, Jr., DO / PCOM - 1986

• Frank J. Perrone, DO / PCOM - 1982

December 2020 - February 2021

• Steven K. Allen, DO / DMUCOM - 1973

• Robert H. Brehouse, DO / PCOM - 1979

• Frank A. DeLeo, DO / PCOM -1 958

• Ronald J. D'Orazio, DO / PCOM - 1962

• Robert E. Evans, DO / ATSUKCOM - 1964

• Robinson G. Fry, DO / PCOM - 1956

• Harry C. Izbicki, DO / COPS - 1952

• Robert K. Kramer, DO / PCOM - 1966

• Clayton C. Lindemuth, DO / PCOM - 1966

• Donald J. Schnapf, DO / PCOM - 1973

• Martin L. Spangler, DO / PCOM - 1958

September 2020 - November 2020

• Richard A. Clark, DO / KCUMB - 2004

• Frederick R. Krueger, DO / WESTERNCOMP - 1992

• Freda Lozanoff (Heyman), DO / COPS-1958

• Edwin A. Schuller, Jr., DO / PCOM - 1976

May 2020 - August 2020

• Michael I. Abraham, DO / PCOM - 1966

• Cheryl A. Branon, DO / DMUCOM - 1988

• Eugene M. DiMarco, DO / PCOM - 1984

• Jerry F. Gurkoff, DO / PCOM - 1975

• Donald G. Hunter, DO / PCOM - 1961

• Edward Paul Rock, DO / PCOM - 1967

• Arnold Schwartz, DO / CCOM - 1958

• Leon Stein, DO / KCOM-1954

• Charles E. Thomas, DO / KCUMB - 1959

• Earl R. Trievel, DO / PCOM - 1968

February 2020 - April 2020 

• Raymond R. Beatty, Jr., DO / PCOM - 1980

• Richard K. Snyder, DO / PCOM - 1956

November  2019 - January 2020

• Mary Ann DiBiagio, DO / PCOM - 1983

• Donald J. Greenspan, DO / PCOM - 1958

• William S. Myers, DO / PCOM - 1964

• James L. Puckett, DO / CCOM - 1969

• Robert L. Stull, DO / PCOM - 1978

• Gilbert B. Tabby, DO / PCOM - 1958

August - October 2019

• Ronald H. Allard, DO / PCOM - 1976

• Stuart C. Baer, DO / PCOM - 1963

• Mark S. Cooperstein, DO / PCOM - 1972

• James J. Giliberto, Sr., DO /  PCOM - 1947

• Robert K. Hippert, DO / PCOM - 1976

• Edward E. James, DO / PCOM - 1958

• Martin S. Neifield, DO / PCOM - 1946

• Williard L. Noyes, DO / PCOM - 1959

• James P. Soulges, DO / PCOM - 11955

May - July 2019

• Brian D. Carnavil, DO  / DMUCOMS - 1985

• Michael J. Feinstein, DO / PCOM - 1974

• Leonard H. Finkelstein, DO, POMA Past President / PCOM - 1959

• Joseph C. Gallagher, Jr., DO / PCOM-1962

• William A. Nickey, DO / PCOM - 1966

• John F. Quigley, Jr., DO / PCOM - 1962

Editor’s note: If you’d like to honor a colleague with a memorial contribution to the POMA Foundation, you can do so here.