Wallace Bernard Lebowitz was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts on May 4 1930 to Eva (Berenson) and Robert Lebowitz. He attended MIT majoring in chemical biology and also completed a master’s degree in a five-year program.
Deciding between architecture, journalism and medicine, he chose Boston University School of Medicine graduating in 1956. While at Medical school, he spent time in Boston galleries and the Museum of Fine Art and developed a particular passion for Japanese paintings, woodcuts and sculpture. He and his friend Michael Halberstam wrote science fiction short stories which Isaac Asimov, then a professor at BU, read for them and commented on.
He did residencies at Boston University and Tufts and post doc cardiology fellowships at Harvard and the University of Michigan. Dr. Lebowitz was an interventional cardiologist who helped refine techniques for angiography and balloon angioplasty. He had a 50-plus year career at St. Vincent's hospital in Bridgeport, CT where he built the cardiac catheterization lab. He was an associate clinical professor at Yale School of Medicine. In his retirement he trained residents in the St. Vincent's clinic three days a week. He was an avid golfer who loved the game, the competition with others and with himself, and he loved the beauty of walking the golf course.
Dr. Lebowitz was active in community organizations that aligned with his passions, serving on the boards of Rolling Hills Country Club, and South Shore Music. He served as President of the American Heart Association for Fairfield County.
He met Sylvia Greenberg on a blind date on Memorial Day in 1958, got engaged on Fourth of July, and married on Labor Day. They were married for 63 years. They raised their family in Fairfield Connecticut, first on Cherry Hill Road, moving to Fairfield Beach Road for twenty years. In retirement they split their time between BallenIsles in Palm Beach Gardens, FL and Fairfield until moving full-time to BallenIsles.
Wallace is survived by his wife Sylvia, children Adam Lebowitz, Lisa Cader, Nanci Lebowitz-Naegeli and Daniel Lebowitz, and six grandchildren.
Donations in his memory may be made to the American Heart Association:
https://www.heart.org/en/get-involved/ways-to-give?form=FUNQCSERKQD
Or The Michael J. Fox Foundation:
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