A tribute to Nathaniel Reichek, MD
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Cardiology Today Editorial Board Member Nathaniel Reichek, MD, FAHA, FACC, a pioneer in the development and use of cardiac MRI, recently died, the Society for Cardiac Magnetic Resonance announced.
Reicheck, who was professor of medicine and biomedical engineering at SUNY Stony Brook and director of the research and education department at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, New York, fostered collaboration between cardiologists and radiologists. He was one of the founders of the SCMR and served as its third president.
“Nat contributed greatly to research in CMR for 3 decades. He was one of the first cardiac imagers, along with Gerald Pohost, MD, and Charles Higgins, MD, to delve into the field in its very earliest days,” Christopher M. Kramer, MD, Victor Ferrari, MD, and Subha Raman, MD, wrote on the SCMR website. “Nat was a legendary diagnostician, and passed on the “Perloff Pearls” of physical examination to several generations of physicians. He volunteered to teach medical students and residents these skills throughout his career, and delighted in examining patients with unique findings that the fellows would try to stump him with. He was a master of the Socratic method at the bedside, and his skill in teaching deductive reasoning and medical decision-making was unmatched.”
Reichek was also past president of the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Magnetic Resonance Laboratories and past chairman of the Council of Cardiovascular Organizations. He chaired peer-review activities for the NIH, the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology and served on editorial boards for numerous publications.
“My biggest success is the people I helped educate in cardiology and in cardiac imaging who have gone on to make their own valuable contributions to the field,” Reichek told Cardiology Today in 2015. “I’ve got a good list of those.”
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