Marshall A Burns MD

Marshall A. Burns, M.D., a renowned Board-Certified internist and cardiologist in Jacksonville, died on August 20, 2024, at his home in Jacksonville. Dr. Burns was born to Rose Brandt Burns and Seymour Burns on May 1, 1937, in Philadelphia, Pa. His mother immigrated from Ukraine in 1919, narrowly escaping from Proskurov Massacre. His father was born in Utica, N.Y. Marshall is survived by his wife of 49 years, Susan Guy Burns of Jacksonville, his son, Michael Burns of Jacksonville, and daughter Lisa Wood of Keystone Heights, Fl., her two children, his stepdaughter, Wendy Cook of Louisiana, and his brother, Arthur S. Burns, DDS, and his wife Olga of Jacksonville and niece Marlene.

Dr. Burns attended Hendricks Avenue Elementary and graduated from Landon High School in 1954 where he was a member of the Golf Team and National Honors Society. Excelling at the University of Florida, he was honored to enter Tulane University Medical School in New Orleans where he was inducted into AOA, the honorary medical society. Completing his internship at Touro Infirmary, Dr. Burns then completed two years of internal medicine and one year of noninvasive cardiology at Charity Hospital there.

Dr. Burns returned to Jacksonville to practice in 1966 at Saint Vincent’s Hospital in Riverside. He then served at Wright Patterson Air Force Base for two years at the rank of captain after which he was asked by J. Brooks Brown, MD, of Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville to be the head of the EKG department, which he did for 31 years. He also served on the board of directors and on the panel for GE for their EKG computer system beginning a long career with computerized EKG.

An avid golfer, in 1975, Dr. Burns met Gary Player at the Master’s Golf Tournament to whom he was to become a great friend for many years. Later that year, he and Susan Guy were married by her father, the Reverend Henry Guy. A talented golfer herself, they often traveled extensively to play golf and ski and dance together. Occasionally, they would travel to watch golf tournaments in which Gary played and had dinners with him and his wife, Vivienne/

In addition to golfing and skiing together, the couple were also active Beach Bop dancers and danced together regularly.

After retirement, the couple moved to the golf community of Desert Mountain in Scottsdale, Arizona. Dr. Burns then began part-time teaching of EKG at the University of Arizona Medical School, and also taught EKG to paramedics and psychiatrists. While there, he also worked with Phillips Health Care Company where he was chosen to the first cardiologist to head a panel of seven cardiologists. Dr. Burns said, “This is the greatest honor I ever received because the Phillips System is all over the world and lives will be saved internationally.”

In 2019, the couple moved back to Jacksonville, where they have resided ever since.

Services will be held at Hardage-Giddens Oaklawn Chapel and Cemetery at 4801 San Jose Boulevard in Jacksonville at 11am on Friday, August 30, 2024.

As an expression of sympathy and in lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the following charities that were instrumental in the compassionate care of Dr. Burns:

1. Brooks Rehabilitation, Attn: Brooks Foundation, 3599 University Blvd. S., Jacksonville, Fl 32216, or give online at www.brooksrehab.org/donate

2. Community Hospice & Palliative Care, 4266 Sunbeam Road, Jacksonville, Florida, 32257, or online at www.thefoundationcares.org/give