CHOP Loses a Legendary Doctor, Mentor and Friend
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Children's ViewOutside the clinic where families seek answers to their children’s unexplained medical conditions is a sign that reads: the Patrick S. Pasquariello Jr. Diagnostic and Complex Care Center.
That same name is also written on countless hearts. Dr. Pasquariello, who passed away Aug. 29, 2015, spent his entire 54-year career at CHOP. For many years, “Dr. Pat,” as patients, parents and physicians-in-training called him, was the director of CHOP’s Main Campus primary care practice, caring for thousands of children and families, sometimes for multiple generations.
He demonstrated his extraordinary compassion and dedication to children with complex disorders with his involvement in CHOP’s 22q and You Center, Craniofacial and Spina Bifida programs, and the Diagnostic and Complex Care Center that was renamed in his honor in 2009, 20 years after he created it.
When news of his passing was posted on CHOP’s Facebook page, hundreds of former patients, parents and colleagues wrote about the physician, and the man, they knew and loved.
A sampling of their heartfelt comments gives the fullest picture of why he will be so greatly missed.
Categories: Children's View Winter 2016