Robert Alan Lobis died peacefully in the company of his loving family on 26 October 2025, due to complications of pancreatic cancer.
He is survived by his wife, Judy Wolfe; his sister, Joan Lobis (Mary Bednar); his ex-wife, Judy (Dolfman) Lobis; his two children, Samantha Lobis (Michael Green) and Seth Lobis (Victoria Sancho Lobis); his two step-children, Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis (Andrew Kelly) and Emily Wolfe-Roubatis (Sam Sylvester); and his five grandchildren, Maxwell Lobis-Green, Claudia Lobis, Alecos and Stefanos Kelly, and Ollie Wolfe.
Bob was born in Philadelphia, PA, on 2 December 1942, the first child of Milton Lobis and Theresa (Laster) Lobis. A member of Class 214, he graduated from Philadelphia's Central High School in 1960. He received a full scholarship to attend the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated summa cum laude with a degree in English in 1964. He proceeded to Harvard Medical School, receiving his M.D. in 1968. A person of deep conviction and resolve, Bob was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. After doing an internship in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals, he returned to the Boston area to do his residency in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, where he was chief resident during his final year. He also completed training at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute.
A longtime resident of Brookline, MA, Bob spent more than ten years working at Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick, MA, where he served as Director of the Program in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In addition, he maintained an active private practice. In 1987, he moved to the Institute of Living in Hartford, CT, to become the Senior Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He finished his career at Children's Hospital of Boston, serving as Medical Director of Inpatient Psychiatry. A gifted and dedicated clinician as well as an adept administrator, he committed himself to improving the lives of his patients throughout his thirty-year career.
After retiring in 2007, Bob traveled in Asia, worked for the Joint Commission, and did pro bono work for Physicians for Human Rights. He was also able to focus on his longstanding practice as a visual artist, which included painting, collage, and digital media. He explored a range of formats and engaged pictorial traditions of observation, decoration, and political commentary. Based in Bath, Maine, he enjoyed biking, kayaking, cooking, eating, traveling, and writing, producing three novels. He cherished time with his family and was a loving and devoted husband, brother, parent, and grandparent. In recent years, Bob took particular pleasure in his involvement in the lives of his grandchildren, coming up with art projects, playing at the beach, watching their performances, and introducing them to the foods he relished and to the artists he loved. He is joyfully remembered for his generous sense of humor, his wise counsel, his insatiable intellectual curiosity, his enthusiastic sense of adventure, his love of reading, and his passion for the arts.
Donations in his memory may be made to the following charities:
ArtVan (https://www.artvanprogram.org)
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (https://www.kennebecestuary.org)
Williams Syndrome Association (https://www.williams-syndrome.org/donate)
He is survived by his wife, Judy Wolfe; his sister, Joan Lobis (Mary Bednar); his ex-wife, Judy (Dolfman) Lobis; his two children, Samantha Lobis (Michael Green) and Seth Lobis (Victoria Sancho Lobis); his two step-children, Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis (Andrew Kelly) and Emily Wolfe-Roubatis (Sam Sylvester); and his five grandchildren, Maxwell Lobis-Green, Claudia Lobis, Alecos and Stefanos Kelly, and Ollie Wolfe.
Bob was born in Philadelphia, PA, on 2 December 1942, the first child of Milton Lobis and Theresa (Laster) Lobis. A member of Class 214, he graduated from Philadelphia's Central High School in 1960. He received a full scholarship to attend the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated summa cum laude with a degree in English in 1964. He proceeded to Harvard Medical School, receiving his M.D. in 1968. A person of deep conviction and resolve, Bob was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. After doing an internship in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago Hospitals, he returned to the Boston area to do his residency in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, where he was chief resident during his final year. He also completed training at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute.
A longtime resident of Brookline, MA, Bob spent more than ten years working at Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick, MA, where he served as Director of the Program in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. In addition, he maintained an active private practice. In 1987, he moved to the Institute of Living in Hartford, CT, to become the Senior Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. He finished his career at Children's Hospital of Boston, serving as Medical Director of Inpatient Psychiatry. A gifted and dedicated clinician as well as an adept administrator, he committed himself to improving the lives of his patients throughout his thirty-year career.
After retiring in 2007, Bob traveled in Asia, worked for the Joint Commission, and did pro bono work for Physicians for Human Rights. He was also able to focus on his longstanding practice as a visual artist, which included painting, collage, and digital media. He explored a range of formats and engaged pictorial traditions of observation, decoration, and political commentary. Based in Bath, Maine, he enjoyed biking, kayaking, cooking, eating, traveling, and writing, producing three novels. He cherished time with his family and was a loving and devoted husband, brother, parent, and grandparent. In recent years, Bob took particular pleasure in his involvement in the lives of his grandchildren, coming up with art projects, playing at the beach, watching their performances, and introducing them to the foods he relished and to the artists he loved. He is joyfully remembered for his generous sense of humor, his wise counsel, his insatiable intellectual curiosity, his enthusiastic sense of adventure, his love of reading, and his passion for the arts.
Donations in his memory may be made to the following charities:
ArtVan (https://www.artvanprogram.org)
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust (https://www.kennebecestuary.org)
Williams Syndrome Association (https://www.williams-syndrome.org/donate)
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