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HOSPICE HEROES
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PROMISE
Becca & Jenny Weiss were
just
9 years old wh.en their father, Allen, died
of a neurodegenerative disease. The
compassionate care provided by the
hospice team who helped their family left a
strong impression on the twins.
"When our dad was sick, they took care
of everything and took our minds off of
everything," Becca says. "Now we're
giving something back."
Becca and Jenny ran a support group in
middle school for students who lost
parents. And because their father lost his
ability to speak, they now study speech
pathhology at Michigan State University.
During their vacations, Becca and Jenny
volunteer in Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy
Network's offices. "We love helping
Jewish Hospice," says Jenny. "We know
by doing it, we are helping other people."
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3 Kislev
November 30, 2008
Samuel Benidikt
Benny Dewy
Avrohom Yitzchock Eisenstadt
Stuart C Freedman
Charles Goldschlag
Jacob Josleve
Samuel Kantor
Morris Kransberg
Aaron Lopatin
Dr. Bernard Duane Lynn
Herbert Pomerantz
Arthur Rattenberg
H. S. Seidman
Abraham Valilzkin
Wolf Wallach
Rose Miller
Adele Reider
Josephine Roggin
Rose Rothnagel
Anne Shektrnan
Chenieh Simlak
Maya Wallach
4 Kislev
December 1, 2008
Louis Hoberman
Boruch Levine
Isadore Marcus
Shalom Ralph
Max Wainer
Sheldon Marvin Weintraub
Fannie Engel
Suzanne Friedman
Sarah Levine
Marjorie E Margolis-Pavorsky
Florence Meites
Celia Sazinsky
Ida Finley Selker
Sylvia Wolf
5 Kislev
December 2,2008
Joshua Blazofsky
Harry Clements
Alexander Diskin
Meyer Freedman
Sol Wainer
Etta Laya Finley
6 Kislev
December 3, 2008
Jack Ben-Joseph
Joseph Bennet
Joseph Feldman
Edward Horn
Harry M. Krugel
Julius Ruda
Willie Ruskin
Bernard Shulman
Louis Yaffe
Eva Averbach
Rachel Devorah Bumstine
Fannie Freid
Betty Steinman
7 Kislev
December 4,2008
Gunsberg
Nathan C. Manela
Abraham Price
Seymour T Smith
Max Stem
Ignatz Weisz
Minnie Gook Abramowitz
Helen Biller
Rose Grossman
Shirley Janet Segerman
Marian Zuk
8 Kislev
December 5, 2008
W Chodoroff
Larry Morris Fogel
Abe Fredman
Stanley Gelfund
Richard Gooel
Charles G Halpert
Louis Langwald
Ernest Levi
Ben Zion Schneiersohn
Albert Sufferin
Bessie Kunin
Florence Pollack
Lillie Spector
9 Kislev
December 6, 2008
Ben Bernstein
Dr Joseph Carlebach
Philip Gerszkop
Jacob Katan
Jack Wayne
Anna Rose Araten
Chodoroff
Barbara Galens
Asna Gottlieb
Lenka Herskovic
Lena Kort
Sonia Lefond
Malvina Stone Lewis
Bertha Rubin
Rena Silver
Lillian Victor
Eva Train
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November 27 • 2008
The Heart's Best Friend
Bill Carroll
keep their hearts." Over 60 years, he
designed more than 20 medical devic-
es that aided circulation and other
r. Adrian Kantrowitz, a major
vital functions.
figure in the
One of Dr. Kantrowitz's
initial generation
most influential devices
of cardiac surgeons in the
is the inter-aortic bal-
1940s, performed the first
loon pump, which is a
human heart transplant in
long, narrow gas line
the United States in 1967.
inserted through the
In the 1970s, he helped
patient's thigh that
put Sinai — Detroit's
inflates a six-inch-long,
Jewish hospital — on the
sausage-shaped balloon
Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz in the aorta. The device
map by inventing lifesav-
ing cardiac devices there
has treated more than
such as the intra-aortic balloon pump. 3 million patients since it went into
He pioneered development of several
general use in the 1980s — including
mechanical devices to prolong the life
Dr. Kantrowitz himself when he was
of patients with heart failure.
in shock after suffering his first heart
Dr. Kantrowitz, 90, of Lake Angelus,
attack in 1993.
Mich., died of complications of heart
Another of his influential inven-
failure Nov. 14, 2008, at University of
tions is the "left ventricular assist
Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor.
device," or LVAD, which is perma-
"He was an excellent patient who
nently implanted in patients with
didn't try to dictate to me what to do
severe chronic heart failure.
or how to treat him," said Dr. Melvyn
He also invented an early implant-
Rubenfire of West Bloomfield, who
able pacemaker and captured the
was Dr. Kantrowitz's own cardiologist
first film of the mitral valve opening
and his colleague in heart research at
and closing inside a beating heart.
Sinai, starting when they first met in
His inventiveness extended beyond
1970."He developed the heart failure
cardiology; he was the first doctor to
condition 15 years ago."
enable paraplegic patients to move
Mrs. Jane Kantrowitz, Dr,
their limbs by electronically trigger-
Kantrowitz's wife of 60 years, said he
ing their muscles.
"never retired, and he never lost his
"He was a pleasant and gracious
mental alertness; he was alert to the
man whose research team loved and
end:" She also was his colleague in
admired him very much, and was so
developing the heart devices at LVAD
attached to him that they followed
Technology Inc., a research laboratory
him from New York to Sinai Hospital','
near downtown Detroit.
said Dr. Rubenfire. "It was unusual for
On Dec. 6, 1967, in a Brooklyn hos-
a senior physician with his stature to
pital, Dr. Kantrowitz removed the heart take in a junior physician like me, at
of a brain-dead baby and implanted
age 30; but it allowed me to learn and
it into the chest of a baby with a fatal
grow professionally through the years."
heart defect. The patient lived for only
In 1970, Dr. Kantrowitz left
six hours, but the operation was a
Brooklyn and, remarkably, moved his
milestone on the way to routine trans- entire team of 25 surgeons, engineers,
plants of today.
nurses and even a writer to Sinai to
The surgery followed by three days
better accommodate his research,
the world's first transplant performed
using a $3 million research grant.
by Dr. Christiaan Bernard in Cape
He spent the rest of his career here,
Town, South Africa. But Dr. Kantrowitz performing many open-heart surger-
had been methodical in laying the
ies. He also was a professor of clinical
groundwork for the procedure, prac-
surgery at Wayne State University's
ticing hundreds of heart transplants in School of Medicine. "Some of his team
puppies over the previous four years.
members later became well-known
He first became recognized in 1959
heart surgeons in their own right:' Dr.
when he gave a healthy dog a booster
Rubenfire pointed out.
heart muscle.
Dr. Kantrowitz was born in New
"But he really wasn't interested
York City to a mother who designed
in doing transplants the rest of his
costumes for the Ziegfeld Follies and
career; he performed only one more,
a father, a physician, who ran a Bronx
on an adult;' said Mrs. Kantrowitz. "He clinic that charged its patients 10 cents
concentrated on inventing devices to
a week. "My mother told me from the
help seemingly terminally ill patients
age of 3 that I wanted to be a doctor;'
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