Claremont Physician and Western University Trustee Arthur Madorsky Passes Away

It is with great sadness that Western University of Health Sciences

announces the passing of Arthur Madorsky, DO, MD, former medical director

of Casa Colina Hospital for Rehabilitative Medicine, and longtime member

of Western University’s Board of Trustees. He was 72.

Dr. Madorsky died Tuesday, May 10. Services were held on Sunday, May 14,

in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was born.

Western University will hold an on-campus memorial service at 3 p.m.,

Friday, May 19, in the Health Sciences Center Amphitheater.

“”Art Madorsky played a critical role in the growth of Western University,

both as a member of the faculty and Board of Trustees,”” said President

Philip Pumerantz, PhD. “”Of equal importance, he was a dear and valued

friend to many. He is remembered by his students as a great teacher and a

caring, competent and compassionate physician.””

Dr. Madorsky received his undergraduate degree from Western Reserve

University and his doctor of osteopathic medicine (DO) degree from the

Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1957. He received a doctor of

medicine (MD) degree from the California College of Medicine in 1962.

During his extensive and distinguished career, Dr. Madorsky operated a

private practice in Pomona, was medical director and a member of the board

of directors for Casa Colina Hospital and was medical director at General

Dynamics in Pomona. He also served as a designated aviation medical

examiner for the Federal Aviation Administration.

Dr. Madorsky held faculty appointments at Western University’s College of

Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in Pomona and Harvey Mudd College in

Claremont. He also taught at Cal Poly Pomona, the UCLA School of Medicine,

and Pepperdine University.

His many awards and honors include the Medal for Meritorious Service from

the American Heart Association; the Exceptional Service Award, the

Meritorious Service Award and the Division Chairman of the Year Award from

the Los Angeles Heart Association; and the Goddess of Pomona Award from

the City of Pomona.

Topics of research and specialties of interest included dynamic

electrocardiography, the relationship of diet to heart disease, chronic

pain management and cardiac reconditioning.

Dr. Madorsky was a member of the founding committee of the East San

Gabriel Valley Division of the Los Angeles County Heart Association, of

the American Congress of Rehabilitative Medicine’s Task Force on Human

Sexuality, of the governing board of the Institute for Religion and

Wholeness at the Claremont School of Theology, and was an editorial

panelist for the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

His research appeared in a number of professional journals including The

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Modern Treatment, the

Western Journal of Medicine, and in Zejdlik’s Textbook, “”Management of

Spinal Cord Injury.””

Dr. Madorsky is survived by his wife, Julie G. Madorsky, MD; children

Marcy Singerman, Steve Madorsky, David Madorsky, Lionel Botvin and Danya

B. Greene, PA-C, a 1998 graduate of Western University’s Primary Care

Physician Assistant Education Program; and five grandchildren.

Donations in Dr. Madorsky’s name may be made to Western University’s

Center for Disability Issues and the Health Professions, 309 E. Second

Street, Pomona, CA 91766. The phone number is (909) 469-5380.