Milton Weiser, MD, 87, a renowned gastroenterological researcher, died after a battle with Parkinson's disease, The Buffalo News reports.
Dr. Weiser was a well-known researcher and Buffalo (N.Y.) General Medical Center's gastroenterology department chairman.
He earned his medical degree at Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Medical School, where he met the woman who would become his wife while working in the morgue.
Dr. Weiser completed a fellowship in molecular biology at New York City-based Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He then worked at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital while leading the Cambridge, Mass.-based Harvard-MIT Health Sciences Program.
He moved to Buffalo in 1978 to serve as a professor of medicine and biochemistry at the University at Buffalo. He was also head of research at Buffalo General.
Throughout his career he authored more than 100 articles and chapters for journals and books. He was essential in the founding of the Western New York Chapter of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation.
After retiring, he became deeply involved in the arts and in sailing.
Dr. Weiser is survived by his wife, two sons, a daughter, his brother and five grandchildren.