Jesse Halpern, MD (1932-2022)

It is with deep sadness that I report the death of one of our colleagues, Jesse Halpern, MD.

In Memoriam Jesse Halpern, MD (1932–2022) I t is with deep sadness that I report the death of one of our colleagues, Jesse Halpern, MD. He died on October 1, 2022. He suffered renal failure and other complications of Amyloidosis. He was born on August 24, 1932, to Lisa and Charles Halpern, both Pharmacists in Queens, New York. He grew up there as well. Jesse attended Queens College, New York, part of the City of New York College system graduating in 1953. He then e60 attended SUNY Downstate Medical Center and did his Ophthalmology Residency at Montefiore Medical Center, part of Albert Einstein School of Medicine, completing his residency in 1964. He did a neuro-ophthalmology fellowship with Myles Behrens at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and the Edward Harkness Eye Institute in 1975. He was an attending neuro-ophthalmologist at Texas Tech in El Paso, Texas from 1976 to 1980. He then went to Presbyterian Hospital in Los Angeles, California, till 1989 and then spent 1 year at the University of Florida in Jacksonville. He then moved to Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1990 where he was Director of Residency training at Louisiana State University Health Science Center till 2020. Jesse received numerous excellence in teaching awards and was a consultant at Beaumont Army Hospital in El Paso, Texas. He gave numerous, 1 week courses in neuroophthalmology to ophthalmology residents in Chile, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Panama and Peru. He was the lead author of a textbook entitled Neuro-ophthalmology Problem Solving: a Practical and User Friendly Guide published in 2008 by Plural Publishing. Jesse was an accomplished violinist and violist and played in many chamber groups and small orchestras. He survived by his wife Rachel, of Jacksonville, Florida, his daughter Lynn of Colorado and his son Larry of Springfield, Ohio. Scott Forman, MD Taos, New Mexico E-mail: [e-mail] Forman: J Neuro-Ophthalmol 2023; 43: e60 Copyright © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society. Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited.