Horace Hodes
1907–1989 (age 82)
Physician
Biography
Horace Hodes, M.D., devoted his career to pediatric infectious diseases, spending decades at Mount Sinai Hospital where he pioneered research and clinical care that helped shape strategies to protect children from respiratory illnesses.
Colleagues remember him as a steady mentor who combined scientific rigor with compassion, and his legacy lives on in the many families he helped support and in the medical professionals he trained before being laid to rest at Mount Hope Cemetery.