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
- Rochelle Hirschhorn
- Dr. Charis Eng
- Richard Erbe
- Elizabeth Ives
- Michael Siciliano
- Dale Hedges
- 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
2021
- Edmund Jenkins
- Deborah Ann Nickerson
- Lissy F. Jarvik
- Stephen Warren
- Sir Peter HarperÂ
- 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
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
2014
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
2010
- Paul Steven Miller
- Gordon Dewald
- Leena Peltonen-Palotie
- Barton Childs
2009
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