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Remembering

Former DCMS President

Richard D. Baltz, MD

R

ichard D. Baltz, MD, passed away on
Sunday, December 11, 2016 at the
age of 83.

Dr. Baltz faithfully served his fellow
physician colleagues as President of the Dauphin
County Medical Society for two terms in 1985
and again in 1991 and was the only physician in
the history of the Society to do this.

He was a member of the Pennsylvania Medical
Society for 48 years, and also served on its Board of
Trustees from October 16, 2005 until October 28,
2012, and participated numerous times as a delegate
from the Dauphin County Medical Society to the
Pennsylvania Medical Society House of Delegates
(PAMED - HOD) and as a delegate to the American
Medical Association, helping to shape health policy
at a state and national level. Dr. Baltz was also a
longstanding member of the American Academy
of Pediatrics as well as its Pennsylvania Chapter.

KePRO, member of the Pennsylvania Chapter
American Academy of Pediatrics School Health
Committee, and member of the American Academy
of Pediatrics Committee on Quality Improvement.
He also honorably served his country as a Captain
in the United States Air Force.
Dr. Baltz advanced the science of medicine with
peer-reviewed publications by the American Cancer
Society and the Journal of Nuclear Medicine; and
shared his extensive medical wisdom with medical
students and residents as Clinical Associate Professor
of Pediatrics at Hershey Medical Center.
He completed his internship and residency in
the specialty of pediatrics at Harrisburg Hospital,
completed a Fellowship at the Children's Hospital
of Philadelphia and went on to serve countless
families in pediatric practice at Baltz and Fromme
Pediatric Associates and then Pinnacle Health
Children's Health Clinic.

Dr. Baltz's contributions to the health of his comDr. Baltz is survived by his wife of more than 58
munity were legion, including service as President of years, Alice (Turner) Baltz; a son Richard E. Baltz
the Harrisburg Hospital Medical Staff, Director of and wife Janice of Burke, VA; a daughter Karen
Pediatrics at Polyclinic Hospital, Medical Director B. Anderson and husband Dean of Camp Hill;
of Utilization Review for Harrisburg Hospital, five grandchildren, Matthew R. Baltz, Timothy
Co-Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association/ M. Baltz, Allison M. Baltz, Erik R. Anderson and
Pennsylvania Medical Society Task Force on Child Grant R. Anderson; and several nieces and nephews.
Abuse and Neglect, consultant to the West Shore
School District Nurse Practitioner Program, colHe will be long remembered as a role model
laborator in the creation of a Central Pennsylvania by his colleagues for his professional excellence,
clinic dedicated to treatment of persons afflicted with multiple medical accomplishments, superb
sickle cell disease, member of the Healthy Mothers teaching skills, extensive community service and
Healthy Babies Fluoridation Coalition, consultant remarkable bonhomie.
to the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare
Bureau of Quality Review, Review Consultant for
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