Janusz Gregory Gorzynski, MD

Dr. Gregory Gorzynski was born in Poland in 1940, during the Nazi occupation of his native country. With his parents Stefan, an engineer, and Janina, a physician, and his older brother Wojciech, he experienced the horrors of war, and later, the deprivations of the post-war years. These experiences set him on a life-long mission of compassionate service to those in need, as a physician specializing in psychiatry and as a volunteer for community service organizations.

He first studied medicine at the Warsaw Medical School, and then, after arriving in the United States in 1967, he attended Baylor Medical School in Houston. He moved to New York City in 1971 and was a medical intern at the Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. He later worked for many years at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan, conducting research and publishing scholarly articles, as well as tending to cancer patients and their families and loved ones. For several more decades, he remained in private practice as a psychiatrist on the Upper East Side.

During his retirement, he volunteered at the Monday Night Hospitality program at All Souls Church and supported several philanthropic and community organizations concerned with those in need. He loved classical music, theater and fine arts, kept up to date with scholarly publications in his field of psychiatry, and was well read in history and politics.

On December 1, his life was cut short when a van struck and killed him while he was crossing Park Avenue at a crosswalk not far from his home.

He leaves behind family, friends and colleagues in several countries who mourn his untimely passing.

A memorial gathering and service will be held at Frank E. Campbell - The Funeral Chapel, located on the 4th Floor at 1076 Madison Ave, New York, New York, 10028. Guest are welcome to gather on December 12, 2025 at 12:30pm, the service will begin at 1:00 pm.

A Christian Memorial Mass will be held in early Spring 2026 at The Church of St. Thomas More, 65 East 89th Street, New York, NY.

His ashes will be interred in the family grave in Warsaw.