Nabil Younan, MD, who was director of anesthesia at Shore Memorial Hospital in Somers Point, N.J., for 19 years, died Oct. 29 at age 91, according to an obituary published in The Press of Atlantic City.
Dr. Younan joined the hospital’s medical staff in 1973. The hospital, which serves Atlantic and Cape May counties, now operates as Shore Medical Center.
Besides running the anesthesia department, Dr. Younan chaired the hospital’s surgery department from 1987 to 1993. He joined the Medical Staff Executive Committee in 1984, became its president for 2001 and retired in 2002.
Dr. Younan was born in 1935 in Mansoura, Egypt, one of seven children. He finished medical school at Kasr El Aini in Cairo in 1959, completed a transitional-year internship at Harbor Hospital in Baltimore and finished his anesthesiology residency at the University of Maryland in 1973. He earned fellow status with the American Board of Anesthesiology in 1974.
Shore Medical Center remains an independent nonprofit hospital and has 196 licensed beds and affiliations that include Penn Medicine.
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