Dr. Marion Allen Koerper Blumberg

I feel very sorry for her family too. Dear Marion, thank you so much for the inspiring conversations and thoughts in San Francisco and the stadium visits to the SF Giants. It was always a joy to visit you and Robert. Many hugs from Berlin. Jonas O.

In loving memory of a special woman, who I met 43 years ago the first time in SF and 10 years ago at the Christkindl' Markt in Nürnberg/ Germany. I feel sorry for her family- With warm greetings and thoughts!

She was a light to all

She was a special and inspiring woman - I loved her stories about figure skating and found her inspirational in her ability to enjoy life balancing work, family and fun. She left a mark on my heart.

I was very sad to read of Marion´s passing. I remember her first as a pediatric resident, she a young attending, in the late 1970s, a time when there were far fewer women in medicine. She was so approachable and very caring and smart. A true role model! Years later she joined our UCSF Birthmarks and Vascular Anomalies Clinic as our hematologist. We co-managed many patients and her astuteness as a clinician and scholar were very evident. My condolences to her family. May her memory be...

Marion A Koerper was my close colleague during the two decades when I served as the Director of the Blood Bank at UCSF Medical Center at Parnassus. We closely interacted in laboratory diagnosis and immune prevention of viral hepatitis and HIV/AIDS that had infected many of her hemophilia patients previously treated with cryoprecipitate. She was the most compassionate and competent pediatric hematologist who devoted her entire career to care of patients with hemophilia and their persistent...

Marion and I were friends since we 10 and 11 after our fathers retired from the USAirforce.......my wife Kathryn and Marion ran the out patient clinic lab at UCSF for almost a decade...Marion´s brilliance was so apparent and profound...just incredible.Marion was a wonderful caring person married to her equally brilliant husband Bob Blumberg who by coincidence was a softball teamate for years....our lifelines crossed many times .No one will ever be missed as much as this beautiful...