In memoriam
Paul McEnery, MD, September 26, 1938 – March 28, 2019
Paul T. McEnery, MD, MBA, a nephrologist at Cincinnati Children’s, professor emeritus, University of Cincinnati, passed away on March 28, after a long battle with heart failure. He was a wonderful human being.
When reading the numerous platitudes sent by colleagues, students, friends, and classmates, two themes are apparent: 1) he loved his patients unreservedly—the entire community of children had his attention, and 2) he was a doer of big projects. Many would conclude that McEnery was a true Renaissance Man.
He graduated from the Stritch School of Medicine of Loyola University Chicago. After his internship at Cook County Hospital, he completed a pediatric residency and nephrology fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s. McEnery became the medical center’s second nephrology faculty in 1970, joining Clark West, MD, in launching one of the most successful programs in pediatric nephrology.
During his illustrious career, McEnery made numerous unique contributions to Cincinnati Children’s, including introducing the percutaneous renal biopsy technique in 1969 and starting the dedicated pediatric dialysis unit in 1972. This unit was one of the very first in the nation that included hemodialysis and home training for peritoneal dialysis for children.
McEnery was also the director of the Nephrology Clinical Laboratory for several years and oversaw the development of complement assays that are still in use today. He pioneered and directed the kidney transplantation program, which grew into one of the busiest in the country. He authored more than 85 peer-reviewed publications, including game-changing works in membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, nephrotic syndromes and chronic kidney diseases that are still taught to trainees.
He served as medical director of Cincinnati Children’s Clinical Laboratories from 1988 to 1999. He was also medical director of Performance Improvement for JCAHO Accreditation. In addition, McEnery was very active on many hospital committees, the American Society for Pediatric Nephrology, and International Pediatric Nephrology Association. He served as the president of the American Society for Pediatric Nephrology, as well as the Cincinnati Pediatric Society. To advance his administrative skills, he obtained an MBA from Xavier University in 1989. He then founded River Valley Pediatricians, Inc., the Ohio Valley Primary Care Associates and Child Health Administrative Services.
Always the quintessential gentleman, Paul will be deeply missed by his wife Charlotte, his daughters, Christina DuMont, MD, FAAP; Jennifer Finn, MBA; and Emily Moriarty, Esq., his many friends, colleagues and patients.
While we grieve, pay our respects and express our love for Paul, we continue to have his examples of love and effort. Paul still lives within us.
-- Charles H. Deitschel Jr., MD, FAAP
Lionel Young, MD, March 14, 1932 – April 10, 2019
Lionel Young, MD, FACR, a distinguished pediatric radiologist, died on April 10 from complications of heart disease. Young, who was born in New Orleans, was a mentee of Fred Silverman, MD, the first full-time director of Radiology at Cincinnati Children’s.
Young received his B.S. degree from Benedictine College in 1953 and his MD from Howard University College of Medicine in 1957. Following an internship at Detroit Receiving Hospital, he completed his residency in Radiology at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York. By then, he had developed an interest in pediatric radiology, but he put further training on hold while he served in the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant commander and Chief of Radiology at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital in New Hampshire.
After his discharge from the Navy, Young did a two-year fellowship in pediatric radiology under Silverman. He then returned to Strong Memorial Hospital at the University of Rochester and established its first pediatric radiology section.
Young later became director of Pediatric Radiology at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in 1975. During that time, he was featured on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood in a segment called, “Let’s Talk About the Hospital,” where he explained an X-ray of a boy’s arm.
Young went on to hold leadership positions at Akron Children’s Hospital and Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital. He garnered numerous awards, including Distinguished Postgraduate Achievement in the Field of Medicine from Howard University. He was the first African-American president of the Society for Pediatric Radiology, and he published more than 200 journal articles and book chapters.
He retired from Loma Linda in the Fall of 2018.
Young is survived by his wife of 61 years, Florence; his daughter, Dr. Tina Young Poussaint (Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint); two sons, Lionel Young and Owen Young (Valerie Sullivan Young), five granddaughters and a step-grandson.
