Obituaries HOSPICE HEROES Obituaries are updated and archived on JNonline.us. THE 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." A Becca Jenny Weiss ore Hospice Heroes who kcep Ow promise so dud No Jew ls Eve=r Alone Yeshiva iThe JEWISHOSPICE &CHAPLAINCY NETWORK - 6555 W. Maple Rd. • West Bloomfield, MI 48322 248.592.2687 • www.jewishhospice.org 1447220 School for Boys • Beth Jacob School for Girls • Early Childhood Development Center 15751 W. Lincoln Drive • Southfield, MI 48076 • (248) 557-6750 "One who provides the education for another's child is considered in Heaven as a partner in the raising of that young person" During the coming week, the students of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah will study in memory of the following departed friends. In oddition, Kaddish will be said during the daily minyan. 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. 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"Same Location 80 Years" Monuments and Markers Bronze Markers Memorial Duplicating Cemetery Lettering & Cleaning CEMETERY INSTALLATION ANYWHERE IN MICHIGAN Call 248-542-8266 661 E. 8 MILE ROAD FERNDALE 1 1/2 blocks East of Woodward 1324950 B40 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;' Special to the Jewish News D