Andrew Edmund Slaby

Andrew Edmund Slaby

Andrew Edmund Slaby, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., died peacefully on May 4, 2020 at age 77, from complications from COVID-19. He was a nationally recognized psychiatric leader, educator and author. Dr. Slaby was a psychiatrist in private practice in New York, New York as well as in Summit, New Jersey. Dr. Slaby also served as a clinical professor of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, and as an adjunct professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at New York Medical College

He graduated from Columbia University Medical School in 1968. He received his PhD in Public Health from Yale University in 1977. Among his many accomplishments were that he was Director of Emergency Psychiatry Services for Yale-New Haven Hospital, Professor of Psychiatry of Brown University Brown University and Psychiatrist-in-Chief of Rhode Island Hospital and Women and Infants Hospital, a Medical Director of the Fair Oaks Hospital and later Psychiatrist-in-Chief of the Regent Hospital in New York City.

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Andrew was predeceased in death by his parents, Evelyn Herde and Andrew Slaby, as well as by his brother, Theodore Slaby, Sr. Andrew is survived by his sisters Doreen (Slaby) Sing (Bill Delo, husband) and Constance (Slaby) Curtis (Gary Curtis, husband) and by niece Sierra Curtis and nephews: Shaun Curtis (Sarah Curtis, wife); Shannon Curtis (Sasha Curtis, wife); and Stefan Curtis (Katy Curtis, wife) and sister-in-law Maureen Slaby (wife of Theodore Slaby, Sr.) and by niece, Jill Slaby-Rotunda (FJ Rotunda, husband) and by nephews: Theodore Slaby, Jr. (Kerry Houlihan Slaby, wife) and Jeffrey Slaby (Carlene Slaby, wife). Andrew is also survived by six great nieces and nephews and his longtime friend Rosemarie Dackerman.

Donations may be made in Andrew Slaby's memory to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the HealthCare Chaplaincy. In closing, in the words of our brother: "Be Well."