Jack Medalie, M.D., M.P.H., FAAFP

Jack Medalie, M.D., M.P.H., FAAFP, 84, of Cleveland died June 20. He had been a member of the Academy since 1977.

Medalie received his medical degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1946 and completed an internship at Johannesburg Hospital in 1946. Medalie also completed fellowships at the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, in 1957 and at Harvard Medical School, Boston, in 1957-58. He received his master's in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1958.

A lieutenant in the Israel Defense Forces' Medical Corps, Medalie practiced medicine in Israel and South Africa before settling in Cleveland to teach at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and to establish training programs for medical students and graduate programs in family medicine at CWRU and University Hospitals of Cleveland. With the help of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Medalie also established a postgraduate fellowship training program there. He was the first holder of the Dorothy Jones Weatherhead Professorship in Family Medicine at CWRU, thought to be the first endowed chair in family medicine in the United States.

Named a Fellow of the AAFP in 1981 and a lifetime member in 1999, Medalie was elected to the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine in 1978 and received the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine's Curtis G. Hames Research Award in 1988.