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Member Obituaries

ASPET wishes to acknowledge deceased Society members with expanded obituaries on our website. Obituaries for publication on the Society's webpage should be submitted via e-mail to the ASPET membership department at membership@aspet.org. Please include the individual's full name, date of birth and death, education and professional affiliations, and any other details in remembrance of the individual you wish to acknowledge, along with a photo, if available.



  • May 07, 2025
    Obituary: Donald E. McMillan
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Dr. Donald E. McMillan.
  • July 23, 2024
    Obituary: Robert M. Epstein
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Dr. Robert M. Epstein, the Harold Carron Professor in Anesthesiology (emeritus) at the University of Virginia, where he also served as the chair of UVA’s Department of Anesthesiology for 24 years.
  • May 16, 2024
    Obituary: Donald M. Kuhn
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Dr. Donald Michael Kuhn, a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences and a VA Research Career Scientist at Wayne State University.
  • August 30, 2023
    Obituary: John H. McNeill
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Dr. John H. McNeill, a researcher, specializing in the diabetic heart, and administrator, serving from 1985 to 1996 as Dean of UBC's Pharmaceutical Sciences and leading development of Canada's first PharmD program.
  • March 31, 2023
    Obituary: Mohamed Abou Donia
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Dr. Mohamed Abou Donia, a professor in the Pharmacology and Cancer Biology department at Duke University Medical Center.
  • March 25, 2023
    Obituary: John T. Wilson
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Dr. John T. Wilson.
  • January 21, 2023
    Obituary: Richard H. Reuning
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Dr. Richard H. Reuning.
  • November 14, 2022
    Obituary: Irving H. Goldberg
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Dr. Irving H. Goldberg, the Emeritus Otto Krayer Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School.
  • August 15, 2022
    Obituary: Ghanshyam N. Pandey
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Dr. Ghanshyam N. Pandey, a Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Mood Disorders and Suicide Research program at the University of Illinois Chicago.
  • May 25, 2022
    Obituary: Dr. Roy W. Pickens (1939 - 2022)
    We note with regret the passing of Dr. Roy W. Pickens. In 2016, Dr. Pickens received the P.B. Dews Lifetime Achievement Award for Research in Behavioral Pharmacology by ASPET.

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