Joseph R. Bertino M.D.

I am so sorry to hear about Dr. Bertino's passing. He became my Hodgkin's doctor when I began college at Yale in 1982 (passed on from my team at NYU) and he carried me through a suspected recurrence in 1984 and years of bumps thereafter. I used to walk from my residential college at Yale to his chemo clinic for appointments and he went to great lengths to confer with colleagues across the country to preserve my ability to have kids. When he moved to Sloan Kettering, I moved with him. He...

Dear Fred, Amy and Family, Sending my deepest sympathy to you all during this most difficult time. What an amazing dad you are so fortunate to have! May he rest in eternal peace and day by day may the light of your memoires heal your sorrow and bring you all peace! Warmly, Laura Florio Luzzi

Although I have never met Dr. Bertino personally I grew up hearing about his impressive work in the medical community. I am the daughter of Pat Bertino´s first cousin Patricia O´Rourke. Inspired by both Pat as a registered nurse and Joe´s impressive medical story of hard work and interest in the medical world I became a first generation college student and Oncology Nurse. Incredibly grateful for his pioneering research and work in cancer and his contributions are immeasurable. Sincere...

Dr. Joseph Bertino was the most kind and generous doctor you ever want to work for. He will definitely be missed. I was his Administrative Medical Secretary and enjoyed working for him. May God bless his soul. Dolores Lord [email protected]

Memory: In 1976, Joe Bertino saved my wife's life (Carolyn Walch Slayman) when she had her first breast tumor. He gave her 40 years of wonderful motherhood for our two children, and--later--21 years to serve YSM as an insightful deputy dean. Had Joe been here five years ago, when Carolyn's metastasis occurred, he might have saved her life again, because he would have known at once what the then discovered pulmonary embolisms meant. Still, he had already done our family, and Yale...

My hero and the most incredible Uncle

I am deeply sorry to have heard of the passing of my mentor, Joe Bertino. I was in his lab during my graduate career at Yale, and feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with, learn from, and admire a person of such extraordinary stature. While he is often celebrated as having had a stellar career as a cancer researcher, clinician, colleague, and mentor of many now highly successful people who sought to follow in his footsteps, there is another side of Joe - who he was as a...

I was very sorry to hear about the passing of Dr. Joseph Bertino. Joe was my Mentor in cancer pharmacology and clinical oncology at Yale. A true master and a sincere friend to whom I am forever indebted for the knowledge, the scientific method, the humanity and the professional wisdom he transmitted to me and to all his numerous pupils. His memory will remain forever in my heart and of those who knew him and remain. I will remember the years spent in his laboratory at Yale and at MSKCC,...

Joe was a towering and gracious human being who was a credit to his ethnicity. May he rest in peace in heaven where he belongs.