- Date Of Birth: April 15, 1937
- Date Of Death: April 1, 2020
- State: New York
Born in Bronx, NY on April 15, 1937 – Departed on April 1, 2020 and resided in Purchase, NY.
Dr. Carl Weber was born April 15, 1937 and died April 1, 2020 at his home in Purchase NY. A remarkable physician and surgeon, he served the White Plains community and beyond with excellence and humility for 50 years. An ardent advocate for compassionate patient care, he recognized that this was the essence of the work he embraced and the passion he pursued.
During his career, he held many leadership positions, including Director of the White Plains Hospital Emergency Department, Director of the Department of Surgery, and President of the Medical Staff, while also serving on the Medical Board and the Board of Directors. In addition, he was active in the local community, serving the White Plains and Westchester Chapter of the American Cancer Society, the Slater Center, the White Plains Day Care Center, where he was a member of the Board of Directors, the Community Service Committee, and the White Plains Hospital Outreach Program. Dr. Weber established the White Plains Hospital Senior Clinical Tutorial, an educational initiative for high school students to inspire the next generation of physicians.
Dr. Weber’s private surgical practice, Weber, Homan MD, PC, was the founding practice of White Plains Hospital Physician Associates. His commitment to White Plains Hospital and its patient population was recognized in 2015, when the hospital opened the Carl Weber Wound Care Center in his honor.
Majoring in physics and minoring in mathematics at Cornell and New York University, Dr. Weber graduated in 1958. He received his medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1962, followed by an internship at the University of Virginia and residency at
Albert Einstein, where he served as Assistant Clinical Professor, becoming a Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery in 1969. Dr. Weber provided leadership for the Westchester County Medical Society, serving as President, Vice-President, and Committee Chairman, and for ten years as Chairman of the Board of Ethics. He was also an Advanced Trauma Life Support Instructor for the American College of Surgeons in the 1970’s, responsible for training paramedics to respond to trauma in the Hudson Valley region. Dr. Weber was instrumental in creating the Westchester and Hudson Valley Emergency Medical Services.
He was recognized for his lifetime contributions to EMS by the Westchester Regional EMS Council and honored with the Dawson Award in 2018. Dr. Weber was a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and served as President and Program Chairman of the Westchester chapter of the ACS. He also served nationally as a Governor of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Weber published in Surgery, JAMA, the Journal of American Medical Association, and the Archives of Surgery, as well as in the op-ed pages of the New York Times.
Dr. Weber was a creative and forward thinker, first writing about the use of xenografts in the 1960’s to address the shortage of organs for transplantation, and a prescient advocate for the use of plasma transfer for immunologic diseases. He was also a passionate defender of the American Health Care System. Recognizing that insurance company practices were undermining the system, Dr. Weber, with his colleague and everlasting friend Dr. Richard Frimer, created Code Blue to redirect the national health care conversation. To help formulate a solution and provide a viable alternative to HMO’s, he was one of the original architects of Medical Savings Accounts, which eventually became the current Health Savings Accounts, to help patients cover their out-of-pocket expenses.
Throughout his professional life, Dr. Weber demonstrated an abiding respect for his patients and for his profession. Through his example, he taught generations of medical professionals to strive for excellence and to do so with benevolence and humanity. Above all, Dr. Weber was a caring doctor, a generous physician who exemplified the highest ideals of the medical profession, while modeling for future generations what it means to live a life of service, with integrity, grace, and compassion. His devotion and pride in his family superseded all else. He inspired them with the life he led, one of dignity, courage, and humility, and they, in turn, filled his life with immeasurable joy and happiness.
Preceded in death by his father, Martin J. Weber and his mother, Toby Messler Weber, Dr. Weber is survived by his wife and devoted life partner of 60 years, Joan (n. Heyman); his beloved children, Adam Weber and his wife Monica; Dr. Philip Weber and his wife Linda; Anna Weber and her husband, Dr. Martin Schapiro; Dr. Kaare Weber and his wife, Dr. Pamela Weber; and his daughter, Jennifer; his sisters, Ellen Weber and Marilyn Marsden; and his brother-in-law, Charles Marsden. He is also survived by his ten adoring grandchildren, Daniel, Justin, Sydney, Evan, Katie, Noah, James, Hannah, Rachel, and Samantha.
