Frank Gordon Moody ’52

Frank Gordon Moody ’52, M.D.,passed away August 12, 2016, from complications of pneumonia in Arvika, Sweden. Frank was born in Franklin, New Hampshire, on May 3, 1928, and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1946. He then served for two years in the U.S Army before entering Dartmouth. He graduated from Dartmouth and then from Dartmouth Medical School before receiving his Doctor of Medicine degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1956. Frank held faculty appointments at the University of California in San Francisco, the University of Alabama, and the University of Utah where he chaired the surgery department from 1971 to 1982. He then spent more than 30 years as a professor of surgery at the University of Texas in Houston, where he also served as the second chair of the department of surgery from 1983 until his retirement in 1994. He was internationally recognized for his research and surgical treatment of diseases of the digestive system with special emphasis on peptic ulcer, gallstones, inflammation of the intestine and the treatment of morbid obesity, and was honored by the American Surgical Association with the 2016 Medallion for Advancement of Surgical Care. Frank is survived by three children and four grandchildren by first marriage to his late wife, Barbara. His second wife, of more than 40 years, Maria (“Maja”), died in 2004. Inger, his partner during the final decade of his life, also survives him.