Daily News | Stanley Baum, groundbreaking radiologist, professor emeritus, and longtime department chair at Penn, has died at 92
Stanley Baum, 92, of Philadelphia, one of the country’s first interventional radiologists, innovator in medical imaging research and development, and professor emeritus and longtime chairman of the radiology department at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, died Sunday, Oct. 15, of pancreatic cancer at his home.
Chair of Penn’s department of radiology from 1975 to 1996, Dr. Baum, among other things, developed new techniques for studying blood vessels that led to nonoperative treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding. He reorganized the department in the 1970s, was named the Eugene P. Pendergrass professor of radiology in 1977, and Penn established theDr. Baum was a tireless promoter of medical imaging and a founding member and first president of the Society for Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology.
The native New Yorker was also a civic booster, and he embraced Philadelphia’s cultural, natural, and historical heritage. He worked with other leaders in the 1990s to recruit the best and brightest to study, work and live in the city, and his son Richard said: “He thought Philadelphia has everything to be a world-class city.”
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