David E. Wolfe, MD

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Mount Sinai Med Ctr
Neuropathology, Box 1134
1 Gustave L Levy Pl
New York, NY 10029-6574
United States

DAVID EMERY WOLFE, M.D.
January 3, 1933-June 3, 2014

David was born January 3, 1933 in Seattle, Washington to Evan Uphus and Polly Emery. He was originally named Reed Uphus, but after his parents divorce, his mother married Joseph Wolfe, and Reed was formally adopted and renamed David Emery Wolfe. He was an avid skier in his youth and throughout his life. He attended the University of Washington prior to serving as a hospital corpsman in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War, although he never saw combat. He received his B.A. at Columbia College, New York, graduating Phi Beta Kappa Summa Cum Laude in Philosophy in the class of 1956. He studied Medicine at Columbia's School of Physicians and Surgeons, receiving an MD in 1960. That same year he married Shelagh Foreman. He was a post doctorate fellow at the at the laboratory of Neuroanatomical Sciences of the National Institute of Health and in Anatomy at Harvard Medical School. In 1963 he was made an Instructor in the Department of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School and also headed the electron microscopy lab. In 1968 he became a Professor of Anatomy at the Pennsylvania State University Medical Center. From 1974 to 1976 he was a Professor of Anatomy and Resident in Anatomic Pathology at Albert Einstein Medical Center of Yeshiva University, where he became certified in Neuropathology and Anatomic Pathology. In 1976 he received an appointment as Professor of Pathology at the University of Miami Medical Center. In 1976 he also became an Attending Neuropathologist and Director of Diagnostic Microscopy at Jackson Hospital. He continued his academic career with an appointment at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he also worked as a Neuropathologist in area hospitals. From 1986 to his retirement he worked as a Professor of Pathology and Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He published numerous articles in medical journals and was presented with the Moore Award in 1989 by the American Association of Neuropathologists, of which he was a member throughout his career. He was also a licensed Medical Examiner in the States of Florida and Michigan, where he worked with Coroner’s offices in the cities of Detroit and Miami. After his retirement he served as an expert witness in a number of shaken baby cases.

In the seventies David became a serious amateur photographer, developing and printing his own work.
A passion for cinema also blossomed, particularly for the French New Wave films of directors like Jean Luc Goddard and Francois Truffaut. He organized a film society at the Pennsylvania State Medical Center. His enthusiasm for movies carried into his later life and he worked with other residents at The Forest at Duke on what they called the Fantastic Films screening series. His sense of humor and way with words will also be unforgettable to those who knew him.

He remarried to Virginia Segal, who preceded him in death in 2012. He is survived by his first wife Shelagh Foreman, his two children Alexander Emery Wolfe and Gillian Fraser Wolfe Ware, and two grand children, Ian Xavier Ware and Imani Mairae Ware. He died of respiratory failure at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina on June 3, 2014.



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