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- «b»MUDr Jiri PALEK -«/b»«i»
«/i» Studied Medicine at the Karlova University in Praha and specialized in Internal Medicine and further in Clinical Hematology. Around the year «i»1968 «/i»he won a research scholarship at the Harvard University, in Boston, Mass. He had an illustrious career not only in the Academia and research, but also as a teacher and clinician. Through his internationally recognized research in the field of red cells, his teaching, and his clinical acumen he had achieved a rare distinction of a full acceptance in the exclusive club of the New England medical establishment.
Jiří had two children with his second wife «b» Majka«/b»: «b» A) Michal «/b»and «b» B) Nicole«/b», both born in the USA. At 55 «b» «/b»Jiří was diagnosed with a renal cell carcinoma (Grawitz tumor). In spite of expected favorable outcome, the disease spread and he succumbed to it and died ten years later.
«b»Diana «/b»and I visited him and his family in «i»1971 «/i»in Boston«i», «/i»long time before he
became ill.
After his death his wife remarried. We lost contacts with her and her family.
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