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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 05, 2021
    Obituary: Charles Craig
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Dr. Charles Craig, professor Pharmacology and Toxicology at the West Virginia University School of Medicine.
  • April 07, 2021
    Obituary: Dennis Ackerman
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Dr. Dennis Ackerman, who had a multi-decade research career in the Pharmaceutical Industry.
  • April 07, 2021
    Obituary: Arleen Rifkind
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Dr. Arleen Rifkind, professor of pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medical College and longtime editor of Drug Metabolism and Disposition.
  • March 31, 2021
    Obituary: Mary Jeanne Kreek
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Dr. Mary Jeanne Kreek, Patrick E. and Beatrice M. Haggerty Professor and a senior attending physician at The Rockefeller University.
  • March 29, 2021
    Obituary: Carl Elliot Rosow
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Dr. Carl Elliot Roso, pharmacology Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School.
  • February 16, 2021
    Obituary: Jerry Bruce Hook
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Dr. Jerry Bruce Hook, founding Director of the MSU Center for Environmental Toxicology.
  • February 07, 2021
    Obituary: Kristin R. Carlson
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Kristin R. Carlson, PhD.
  • January 17, 2021
    Obituary: Jewell Walker Sloan
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Dr. Jewell Walker Sloan.
  • January 04, 2021
    Obituary: William T. Beaver
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Dr. William Beaver, a clinical pharmacologist at Georgetown University who is credited with drafting the initial federal regulations defining “adequate and controlled” clinical studies.
  • December 22, 2020
    Obituary: Laurence Samuel Kaminsky
    ASPET notes with sympathy the passing of ASPET member Dr. Laurence Samuel Kaminsky, Associate Editor for Drug Metabolism and Disposition (2000-2017) and Guest Editor for Molecular Pharmacology (1992). He was elected Chair of the Drug Metabolism division of ASPET (2005), and Councilor (1994-1997).

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