West Newton, Massachusetts
HECHTMAN, Herbert B. Of Chestnut Hill and North Truro, on March 16, 2024, four days short of his 90th birthday. Herb was born and raised in Brooklyn NY, the son of the late Dr. Aaron Hechtman and the late Betty Solomon. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School, Princeton University and Harvard...
Read MoreSorry to hear of Herb´s passing. A fine researcher and surgeon and my father figure when I worked in his lab at Harvard. A true gentleman!
Simon Gibbs MD
June 03, 2025 | Work
My sincere condolences on the loss of this wonderful father, grandfather, father-in-law and companion. May your cherished memories give you comfort in the times ahead.
Ken Sall
March 22, 2024 | Family
From Steve Gerzof, MD, Radiologist. If this is the same "Herb: I knew when I was a "junior attending" at University Hospital in Boston (1972-74) when the Yom Kippur War broke out. We found each other at the El AL Airlines gate at Kennedy Airport along with the Chief of Thoracic surgery at UH, Robert Berger. all of us on our way to Israel as volunteer doctors, they at Hadassah Hospital, while I was posted at the old Shaari Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem. Back in the US, he had a problem with...
Stephen G. Gerzof, MD FACR Professor of RAdiology Tufts Medical School (re
March 18, 2024 | Work
