October 4, 2001
AAFP dedicates Scientific Assembly to victims of terror
BY JODY McAULAY GLOOR
Early on Tuesday, Sept. 11, family physician Frederick Rimmele, M.D., left his home in Marblehead, Mass.; caught a flight in Boston; and headed for the central California coast for some much-anticipated bird-watching and an Academy CME course on geriatric medicine.
Paul Ambrose, M.D., M.P.H.FP Paul Ambrose, M.D., M.P.H., boarded another flight that morning in Washington, D.C. His destination: Los Angeles and a conference on preventing youth obesity -- a topic on which he recently completed some research for HHS.
But neither made it.
Terrorists hijacked Rimmele's United flight and slammed it into the south tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing all 65 people aboard and thousands more. And somewhere over Ohio, terrorists commandeered Ambrose's American airliner, headed back to Washington and crashed it into the Pentagon, killing all 64 people aboard and more than 120 others in the building.
Yesterday -- 22 days after those infamous events transpired -- the AAFP Congress of Delegates dedicated the 2001 Scientific Assembly to those who perished in the attacks and to the families they left behind. Delegates also recognized the contributions to the specialty made by the two family physicians who died that day.
Frederick Rimmele, M.D.Rimmele, 32, practiced at the Hunt Center in Danvers, Mass., and taught at the family practice residency at Beverly Hospital in Danvers.
Ambrose, also 32, was a fellow at HHS who worked on health care policy. In addition, he had a private practice, working mostly with immigrants.
Resolutions of condolence expressing sympathy on behalf of the Academy will be sent to their families.
MEMORIALS
Rimmele's wife, Kimberly, and other family members ask that in lieu of flowers, donations be made in Rimmele's memory to the Nature Conservancy, 4245 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 100, Arlington, VA 22203. Please refer to account #2861662.
Ambrose's parents, with the Marshall University School of Medicine, have established a scholarship in his memory. Contributions can be mailed to Linda Holmes, Marshall University School of Medicine, 1600 Medicine Center Drive, Huntington, WV 25701. Please make checks payable to: School of Medicine Paul Ambrose Scholarship.
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