Anthony S. Kidawa DPM

Anthony S Kidawa, DPM

AGE: 75 • Berlin

On Thursday, August 10, 2017. Anthony Stanley Kidawa, DPM, passed away. He was born in Philadelphia, PA and was a resident of Camden, Cherry Hill, Mount Laurel and Winslow Townships in New Jersey. During his St. Joseph High School years, Anthony attended summer courses in liturgical music at the Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart in NY, served as church organist for four Catholic parishes in South Jersey, and was an instructor in piano and organ. Being bilingual, he was a teacher of citizenship lessons to Polish immigrants. After graduating from Villanova University, he returned to his high school alma mater where he taught biology for a year.

Following attainment of his professional doctoral degree as podiatrist, DPM, from the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine (PCPM), Anthony served a residency at St. Luke's and Children's Medical Center and subsequently returned to his podiatric alma mater which became the Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine where he served a 35-year career as tenured Professor and Departmental Chairman. During these years, he authored dozens of scientific articles, text book chapters, abstracts, compendia and manuals. He served as editor and consultant to legal firms and medical instrument manufacturers, as well as lectured at medical, osteopathic, podiatric and chiropractic conferences in 30 states and Europe on his specialty of peripheral vascular diseases.

Dr. Kidawa also conducted research under grants from pharmaceutical corporations and was the Founder and President of Clindialab, a mobile vascular testing laboratory serving podiatrists in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He had a part-time podiatric practice in Collingswood and at the Temple University Foot and Ankle Institute where he relieved countless patients' ailments and lifted their spirits with his sense of humor. Anthony held membership and elected officer positions in multiple podiatric medical societies, the PCPM Alumni Association and the National Podiatric Boards.

He was a recipient of several national awards and cited as a reputed member in several medical directory listings. His post-doctoral studies were secured at multiple medical conferences and colleges including Harvard University School of Medicine. He was a certified Fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Orthopedics and Medicine, the Professional Wound Care Association, and the American Association of Hospital Podiatrists.

Anthony is survived by his loving wife of 48 years, Nancy, their two children Lori and Kevin, his wife, Diane, grandchildren Elizabeth and Julianna, his late mortician brother, Ronald Kidawa's wife Barbara, as well as by his nieces and nephews. Visitation will be on Thursday, August 17, 2017 from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at St. Charles Borromeo Church, 176 Stagecoach Road, Sicklerville, NJ. Entombment will follow at St. Joseph Cemetery Mausoleum in Chews Landing, NJ.

Arrangements: Healey Funeral Home.