Obituaries and Memorials

ASHG is saddened by the losses of our members and celebrates the accomplishments made throughout their lifetime. Member obituaries are published below. To share an obituary of a member who is recently deceased, please email membership@ashg.org.

2024

• Stephen Wagner
• Peter McGuffin
• Elsa Reich

2023

• Wyatt Anderson
• John Paul SanGiovanni
• Wyatt Anderson
• Charles F. Pelzer
• Eldon Sutton
• Herbert Lubs
• Barbara Migeon
• Michael R. Speicher
• Karl H. Muench
• Charles R. Scriver
• Casey Brown
• Gloria M. Petersen

2022

• Kurt Hirschhorn
• Leon Rosenberg
• Haig Kazazian Jr
• L. Adrienne Cupples
• Thomas Caskey

2021

• Edmund Jenkins
• Deborah Ann Nickerson
• Lissy F. Jarvik
• Stephen Warren
• Sir Peter Harper 
• Lee-Jun Wong
• Richard Lewontin
• Walter Nance

2020

• William Roy Breg, Jr.
• Rina Schmidt
• Albert de la Chapelle
• Stephen Goodman
• Gertjan van Ommen
• Robert (Rob) P. Igo, Jr.
• Theodore Namm
• William Gessner Johnson
• Philip Leder

2019

• Boris Kousseff
• Jay Ellison

2018

• Roger E. Baldwin
• Sir David Weatherall
• Mary Carlin
• Ranajit Chakraborty
• Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
• Newton Morton
• Brian K. Suarez
• Samir Deeb
• Arno G. Motulsky

2017

• Bennett Dyke
• Pamela Sklar
• Eliot L. Berson
• Talaat Farag
• John W. Littlefield
• Anne McKusick
• William (Jack) Schull
• Kimberley A. Strong
• Michael Conneally
• Sandra P. Tho

2016

• Nigel Spurr
• Allen David Roses
• Alfred Knudson
• Avery Sandberg
• Kathleen Rao
• Robert Neil Schimke
• Dorothy Warburton

2015

• Dagmar Kalousek
• Frederick John Dill
• Murray Feingold
• Julie Ross
• Warren Sanger

2014

• Mary Lyon
• Clarke Fraser
• Margaret Thompson
• Sherman Elias
• Jerrold Schwaber
• Ellen Magenis

2013

• Janet Rowley
• Irene Uchida
• Virginia Proud
• Anil Sinha
• Sara Crews Finley
• Frank H. Ruddle
• David Cox
• Syed Jalal

2012

• Charles Eugene (Gene) Jackson
• Helen K. Berry
• Emanuel Hackel
• Skip Elsas
• Margery Shaw
• David Rimoin
• James F. Crow

2011

• Charles Epstein

2010

• Paul Steven Miller
• Gordon Dewald
• Leena Peltonen-Palotie
• Barton Childs

2009

• Eloise R. (Elo) Giblett
• Alexander G Bearn

2008

• Sharon L Betz
• Uwe Claussen
• Howard B Hamilton
• Elizabeth W Jones
• Nataline B Kardon
• David M Kurnit
• Kathi Marymee
• Victor A. McKusick
• Annemarie Poustka
• Susan L Sipes
• Joseph Wagstaff

2007

• Maimon Cohen
• Dean J. Danner
• Hugo Moser
• David Schowalter
• Jarvis E. Seegmiller
• Dolores Shouse
• Karen Snow-Bailey
• Marcy C. Speer