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Marin Independent Journal
Tuesday, July 26, 1988
Section A, page 4
DR. DOHRMANN K. PISCHEL
A private memorial service was held Monday at the First Unitarian Church in San Francisco for Dr. Dohrmann Kaspar Pischel of Ross, a professor emeritus of ophthalmology at Stanford University Medical School who was known worldwide for his work in retinal disease and surgery.
Dr. Pischel died Friday, July 22, 1988, at his home at the age of 92.
He was born in San Francisco but grew up in Ross, attending school there. He was the son of Dr. Kaspar M. B. Pischel, an Austian eye surgeon who was one of the first doctors to specialize in ophthalmology in San Francisco, and Minna Dohrmann, daughter of a pioneer San Francisco family.
Dr. Pischel went to prep school at the Cate School in Carpenteria and then to the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1918. He earned his medical degree at Stanford University in 1923 and interned at Stanford –Lane Hospital in San Francisco and served his residency at the University of Vienna eye clinic, where his father also had studied.
He joined the Stanford Medical School faculty in 1928, rising through academic ranks to become a full professor and head of the division of ophthalmology in 1955. He was professor emeritus from 1961 until his death.
Along with his teaching, Dr. Pischel maintained a private practice in San Francisco for more than 50 years.
He was active in several professional societies and had been president of the Pacific Coast Oto-Opthalmological Society, the American Academy of Opthalmology and the American Opthalmology Society. He also was an honorary member of professional societies in Australia, New Zealand and France and former vice president of the International Council of Opthalmology.
Dr. Pischel was a member of the Bohemian Club in San Francisco and the Lagunitas Club in Ross.
He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Margery Lovegrove Pischel; his son, Dohrmann K. Pischel Jr. of Ashland, Ore.; two daughters, Eleanor Pischel Mc Andrew of Boyes Hot Springs and Elizabeth Pischel Heisler of Marshall; seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
The family prefers memorial donations to the Pacific Vision Foundation, Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center, 2340 Clay St., San Francisco, 94115.
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