In Memoriam - Stanley Yachnin, MD
Stanley Yachnin, M.D., professor emeritus and former section chief of hematology and oncology at the University of Chicago, died at his daughter's home in Hyde Park on Monday, Aug. 30, following a long battle with cancer -- a disease he spent much of his life studying. He was 74.
A well-known physician and scientist with an interest in diseases of the blood, Yachnin's major scientific accomplishments were spread over three decades and totally unrelated fields. In the 1960s, he did fundamental research on a rare red blood cell disorder called paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, which causes anemia, loss of blood into the urine during sleep, and blood clots that can be fatal. In the 1970s, he studied the biochemistry of lymphocyte transformation, how white blood cells learn to recognize, combat and remember an infection. In the 1980s, he concentrated on cholesterol metabolism, especially the oxidation of blood cell membranes and its role in disease.
Born in New York City on June 28, 1930, Yachnin grew up in Brooklyn, NY, where he attended the Yeshiva of Flatbush and Midwood High School. He spent three years at Cornell University then went directly into medical school at New York University, where he graduated first in his class earning his M.D. in 1954.
He began his residency training in 1954. This was interrupted for two years of military service as a captain in the Army Medical Corps, spent on an army base in a small town outside Paris where he cared for ailing soldiers, learned the French language and cultivated a lifelong interest in wines and food. He returned to his medical training in 1958, completing his residency and a fellowship in hematology in 1961 at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, part of the Harvard system
Yachnin next came to the University of Chicago as an assistant professor and remained for the rest of his career. He became section chief of hematology in 1966, a full professor in 1969, and chief of the combined section of hematology and oncology from 1972 to 1982. He retired in 1996.
He is survived by his son, Benson Yachnin, of Brookfield, Ill.; his daughter, Catherine Braendel, of Chicago; and four grandchildren: Noah, Clea and William Braendel and Emma Yachnin.
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