Sheila Moriber Katz Explained

Sheila Moriber Katz
Birth Name:Sheila Susan Moriber
Birth Date:February 1, 1943
Birth Place:Brooklyn, New York
Death Date:September 10, 2023 (age 80)
Death Place:Gladywyne, Pennsylvania
Occupation:Pathologist, writer, medical school dean

Sheila Sue Moriber Katz (February 1, 1943 – September 10, 2023) was an American pathologist and writer, dean of the Hahnemann University School of Medicine, and co-founder of the School of Public Health at Drexel. She is sometimes described as the first person to see the bacterium Legionella pneumophila, which causes Legionnaires' disease.

Early life and education

Moriber was born in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst neighborhood, the daughter of Joseph Moriber and Muriel Goldfinger Moriber. Her father was a lawyer and real estate developer.[1] She graduated from Cornell University in 1962 at the age of 19.[2] She earned a medical degree at Duke University School of Medicine in 1966. In 1990 she earned an MBA at the Wharton School.[3]

Career

Katz was a pathologist and professor at Hahnemann University School of Medicine beginning in 1974. She reached full professor status in 1981, and in 1993 became senior associate dean.[4] [5] She was director of the microscopy laboratory at Hahnemann, and co-founder of the School of Public Health there. She was president of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, and of the Duke University Medical School Alumni Council.

Katz studied Legionnaire's disease after a deadly outbreak in Philadelphia in 1976.[6] She may have caught the disease herself, from handling a sample of infected lung tissue.[7] [8] She was the first scientist to see the bacterium Legionella pneumophila.[9] Newsweek magazine included Katz in a list of 100 "unsung heroes" in 1986.[10] In 1993 she was honored by the Girl Scouts of Greater Philadelphia as a woman achiever in science.[11]

In the 1990s, Katz led the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. She was executive officer of the Allegheny Health Education and Research Foundation in Philadelphia. She founded her own business, NewMedicine, in 2000. Katz also wrote poetry.[12]

Publications

Katz's research was published in academic journals including Science, The Lancet, JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, The New England Journal of Medicine, Human Pathology, Cancer, Annals of Clinical & Laboratory Science, American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Radiology, Ultrastructural Pathology, Gastroenterology, and Diagnostic Cytopathology.

Personal life

Moriber married fellow medical student Julian Katz in 1963. They had two children, Jonathan and Sara, both of whom became physicians. Her husband died in 2014,[28] and she died in 2023, at her home in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, at the age of 80, from complications related to Parkinson's disease.[29]

Notes and References

  1. News: Fitzgerald . Henry Jr. . 1995-03-08 . Joseph Moriber, Lauderhill developer . 17 . South Florida Sun Sentinel . 2023-12-25 . Newspapers.com.
  2. News: Polak . Maralyn Lois . 1986-10-19 . Glimpsing a sinister universe . 463, 464 . The Philadelphia Inquirer . 2023-12-25 . Newspapers.com.
  3. Miles, Gary. "Sheila Moriber Katz, celebrated pathologist, former dean of Hahnemann School of Medicine, author, and entrepreneur, has died at 80" Philadelphia Inquirer (September 13, 2023).
  4. News: 1993-04-05 . People in the News . 28 . The Philadelphia Inquirer . 2023-12-25 . Newspapers.com.
  5. News: 1995-12-16 . 6 on short list for med school dean . 31 . Tampa Bay Times . 2023-12-25 . Newspapers.com.
  6. News: 1976-11-17 . Health Official Links Hotel with Legionnaire's Disease . 72 . Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph . 2023-12-25 . Newspapers.com.
  7. News: Altman . Lawrence K. . 1976-11-15 . Pathologist Studying The ‘Legion’ Disease Caught a Like Illness . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-12-25 . 0362-4331.
  8. News: 1976-11-29 . Medicine: The 30th Fatality . en-US . Time . 2023-12-25 . 0040-781X.
  9. News: Capuzzo . Michael . 1986-07-21 . Glimpsing the Killer . 1E, 7E . The Philadelphia Inquirer . 2023-12-25 . Newspapers.com.
  10. News: 1986-06-02 . List of 100 who have helped others . 3, 4 . The Daily Sentinel-Tribune . 2023-12-25 . Newspapers.com.
  11. News: 1993-03-14 . Local salutes . 134 . The Philadelphia Inquirer . 2023-12-25 . Newspapers.com.
  12. News: 1988-03-04 . Poetry: Physicians' Poetry Reading . 49 . Philadelphia Daily News . 2023-12-25 . Newspapers.com.
  13. Katz . Sheila Moriber . Vickery . Austin L. . 1974-03-01 . The fibrous variant of Hashimoto's thyroiditis . Human Pathology . 5 . 2 . 161–170 . 10.1016/S0046-8177(74)80063-8 . 0046-8177.
  14. Chatten . Jane . Katz . Sheila Moriber . February 1976 . Thymoma in a 12-year-old boy . Cancer . en . 37 . 2 . 953–957 . 10.1002/1097-0142(197602)37:2<953::AID-CNCR2820370252>3.0.CO;2-R . 0008-543X. free .
  15. Katz . Sheila Moriber . 1977-03-14 . Urinary Ultrastructural Findings in Fabry Disease . JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association . en . 237 . 11 . 1121 . 10.1001/jama.1977.03270380065023 . 0098-7484.
  16. Moriber Katz . Sheila . November 1978 . Examination of Sputum in Legionnaire's Disease . The Lancet . 312 . 8097 . 987–988 . 10.1016/s0140-6736(78)92547-3 . 0140-6736.
  17. Katz . Sheila Moriber . Nash . Philip . 1978-02-24 . Legionnaires' Disease: Structural Characteristics of the Organism . Science . en . 199 . 4331 . 896–897 . 10.1126/science.622573 . 0036-8075.
  18. Damjanov . I. . Katz . S. M. . Jewett . M. A. . 1979-03-01 . Leydig cell tumors of the testis . Annals of Clinical & Laboratory Science . en . 9 . 2 . 157–163 . 0091-7370 . 453789.
  19. Katz . Sheila Moriber . Holsclaw . Douglas S. . 1980-05-01 . Ultrastructural Features of Respiratory Cilia in Cystic Fibrosis . American Journal of Clinical Pathology . 73 . 5 . 682–685 . 10.1093/ajcp/73.5.682 . 0002-9173.
  20. Schwartz . E E . Katz . S M . Mandell . G A . September 1980 . Postinflammatory pseudotumors of the lung: fibrous histiocytoma and related lesions. . Radiology . en . 136 . 3 . 609–613 . 10.1148/radiology.136.3.6250199 . 0033-8419.
  21. Katz . Sheila Moriber . 1981-07-17 . Tolmetin: Association With Reversible Renal Failure and Acute Interstitial Nephritis . JAMA . en . 246 . 3 . 243 . 10.1001/jama.1981.03320030035024 . 0098-7484.
  22. Katz . Sheila Moriber . Hashemi . Shahab . Brown . Kristy R. . Habib . William A. . Hammel . Jay M. . January 1984 . Pleomorphism of Legionella Pneumophila . Ultrastructural Pathology . en . 6 . 2-3 . 117–129 . 10.3109/01913128409018566 . 0191-3123.
  23. Katz . Sheila Moriber . Morgan . Joseph J. . January 1984 . Cilia in the Human Kidney . Ultrastructural Pathology . en . 6 . 4 . 285–294 . 10.3109/01913128409018587 . 0191-3123.
  24. Book: Katz, Sheila M.. Legionellosis. 1 . 1985 . CRC Press . 978-0-8493-5233-1 . Boca Raton, Fl.
  25. Katz . Sheila Moriber . Krueger . Leslie J. . Falkner . Bonita . 1988-08-04 . Microscopic Nephrocalcinosis in Cystic Fibrosis . New England Journal of Medicine . en . 319 . 5 . 263–266 . 10.1056/NEJM198808043190502 . 0028-4793.
  26. Moriber Katz . Sheila . Hammel . Jay M. . Matus . Joseph P. . Poropatich . Ronald . Katz . Julian . December 1988 . A Self-Limited Febrile Illness Produced in Guinea Pigs Associated With Oral Administration of Legionella pneumophila . Gastroenterology . en . 95 . 6 . 1575–1581 . 10.1016/S0016-5085(88)80080-5. free .
  27. Young . Nancy A. . Naryshkin . Sonya . Katz . Sheila Moriber . May 1993 . Diagnostic value of electron microscopy on paraffin‐embedded cytologic material . Diagnostic Cytopathology . en . 9 . 3 . 282–290 . 10.1002/dc.2840090308 . 8755-1039.
  28. Web site: Cook . Bonnie L. . 2014-12-21 . January service for Dr. Julian Katz, 77 . 2023-12-25 . Philadelphia Inquirer . B10 . en . Newspapers.com.
  29. https://www.nywift.org/memoriam/in-memoriam-dr-sheila-moriber-katz/ "In memoriam: Dr. Sheila Moriber Katz"

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