Frederick G. Brown ’57

Frederick G. Brown ’57, M.D.,of Danville, Pennsylvania, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on February 24. Fred graduated from the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. At Dartmouth he majored in zoology and was in Phi Tau/Phi Sigma Kappa. He went on to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Fred spent two years at Geisinger Hospital in Danville, Pennsylvania, as an intern and resident in internal medicine. After serving in the U.S. Public Health Service, he completed his training in nephrology at the Cleveland Clinic. He spent one year with the developer of an artificial kidney, for which he wrote a home dialysis training program. He returned to Geisinger to start the department of nephrology and the dialysis unit, served as director of the department for a long career and director emeritus until retirement. Professionally, Fred was on the governor’s renal disease advisory committee. He was the first chairman of the end-stage renal disease network in central and eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware. He was president of the Pennsylvania Society of Nephrology, chairman of the Keystone Peer Review Organization, secretary-treasurer of the Montour County Medical Society and a board member of the Pennsylvania Medical Society. One of Fred’s greatest passions in life was music. He loved playing the piano and was an accomplished organist. He played for several community musicals and as an organist for the Grove Presbyterian Church for 38 years. Fred is survived by a son, a daughter and many grandchildren.