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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on August 9, 2006
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 164(6):607; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj288
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American Journal of Epidemiology Copyright © 2006 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health All rights reserved; printed in U.S.A.

Obituary

In Memoriam: Walter O. Spitzer (1937–2006)

Samuel Shapiro1,2

1 Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University, Boston, MA
2 Visiting Professor of Epidemiology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Correspondence to Prof. Samuel Shapiro, Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town Medical School, Anzio Road, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa (e-mail: samshap@mweb.co.za).

Received for publication May 18, 2006. Accepted for publication July 11, 2006.

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Dr. Walter O. Spitzer, Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at McGill University and Editor Emeritus of the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, died of complications following a car accident on April 27, 2006. He was born in Paraguay in 1937 and received his Doctor of Medicine degree at the University of Toronto in 1962 and his . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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