In Memoriam JOHN MONTEITH GRAY, MD
HUGH BURRELL, MD
31-Year Member of SCMA
45-Year Member of SCMA
John Monteith Gray, one of the Bay Area’s leading orthopedic spine surgeons, passed away in January. He had been battling cancer. Dr. Gray completed his orthopedic residency training at UC San Francisco and his postgraduate training at Harvard Medical School. As a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy, Dr. Gray served as Chief of Orthopedics at the Roosevelt Roads Naval Hospital, Puerto Rico. He returned to the Bay Area in 1978 to begin his long-standing private practice of pediatric orthopedics and orthopedics of the spine. He was on staff at California Pacific Medical Center for 35 years, as well as Marin General, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, and Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital. He specialized in scoliosis in adult and pediatric patients, spinal deformities, and degenerative conditions of the spine. He was chosen by his peers as one of the top 100 doctors in the Bay Area, one of only 10 orthopedic surgeons to receive this prestigious award.
Dr. Burrell graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UC Berkeley in 1949. He enrolled at Stanford and in 1954 became a physician. Finishing his internship, he and his wife moved with two boys and a new daughter to Modesto for residency in general practice (later family and geriatric medicine). In 1956, the family moved to Sonoma, and Dr. Burrell opened a practice in Boyes Hot Springs to serve the farming community. Later, he opened a practice in Sonoma. He served as medical director at Hanna Boys Center and on the State Inspection Team for the California Medical Association. Dr. Burrell was a staff physician at the Veterans Home in Yountville. Dr. Burrell practiced medicine until he was 80. He enjoyed locum tenens work and traveled widely, including stints at West Point and at Sonoma Valley Community Health Center.
—Originally published in the Marin Independent Journal
LYLE F. JACOBSON, MD 9-Year Member of SCMA
Dr. Lyle F. Jacobson died peacefully in Santa Rosa in December, surrounded by his family. He spent his early life traveling with his parents across the U.S. and Canada, attending more than 30 schools before he reached the eighth grade. Lyle settled in Minneapolis and eventually studied at the University of Minnesota. He received his medical degree in 1946. After an internship at Detroit Receiving Hospital, Lyle served as a physician in the U.S. Navy. Stationed in the Pacific, he witnessed multiple atom bomb tests and was on board one of the ships that escaped down the Yangtze River as Mao’s forces overtook China. After leaving the Navy, Lyle returned to Detroit and began an illustrious career as a cardiothoracic surgeon. He was a true pioneer in the field, training and operating with some of the greatest surgeons of the 20th century. Technically brilliant and innovative, Lyle was a passionate and dedicated physician, for whom medicine was a true vocation.
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Dr. Umino c omplet e d premedical studies at UC Davis before earning his doctorate at the Creighton University of Medicine. During the Vietnam War, he was drafted into the U.S. Air Force, serving at an outpost in the Aleutian Islands before being transferred to Travis AFB in Fairfield, Calif. Dr. Umino would find a permanent home working in Petaluma, as part of the El Rose Medical Group with his good friends, Dr. David Sisler and Dr. John Shearer. Dr. Umino cared for and treated Petalumans out of the El Rose office, often still performing house calls, until his retirement in 2014. He said the best thing that ever happened to him was having children, and he loved Patrick, Whitney, Marcus, and Mallory immeasurably. In recent years, he could be found on his bike, in his garden, or cooking something delicious with his longtime partner Karen Newman. He always loved fast cars, motorcycles, and watching virtually all motorsports. He also enjoyed bird- and duck-watching and spent many days walking at Ellis Creek with his dog, Charlie.
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