Patrice Moreno*

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Brian Ganin and me at the 35th reuion 2007	Myself, Carol Meyer & George Levien 2007	Janice Brown and me at the 35th 2007

December 10, 2018

Hi George:

I have some very sad news to report. Our dear friend and classmate, Pat Moreno, passed away on Thursday November 29th at a hospital in Tampa Florida. In December 2017, she was diagnosed with a form of neck cancer and underwent aggressive treatments in the first half of 2018. In June 2018, she resumed her cardiology practice on a part time basis. However, even the part time practice turned out to be exhausting, and I urged her in the late summer to retire. She had lots of things to do in retirement, such as playing with her grandson, sailing, painting and other fun pursuits.

In September, I went to Tampa to help her shut down her medical practice, and the last day of her practice was October 17th. On October 24th, she took a 6-day Caribbean cruise with her 32-year-old daughter Ashley.

Upon her return, her condition worsened, with other maladies that were unrelated to the cancer. On Monday evening November 26th, her husband Steve (an internal medicine doctor) called to tell me she was in the local hospital and was not doing well. On Tuesday, they transferred her to the medical ICU at Tampa General, the largest and most sophisticated tertiary care hospital in the region. On Wednesday, her son Patrick (34 years old), his wife Emily and infant son William arrived from Boston.

Steve was an aggressive fighter on her case, and was getting the assistance from top specialists at Johns Hopkins, Dana-Farber and several other medical groups.

I booked the first flight on Thursday morning to Tampa, but she went into cardiac arrest at 9:00 AM. They worked on her for 30 minutes, but were unable to resuscitate her.

She had requested a small gravesite funeral, which took place on Sunday December 2nd at the Curlew Hills Memorial Gardens cemetery in Palm Harbor Florida.

In addition to her immediate family, she is survived by her 3 siblings, Tracey, Jaime, and Jim.

I miss her terribly. We were very close, much like a brother / sister relationship.


Take care.

Skip Newman