Dr. Ronald B. Mack

Dr. Ronald B. Mack, 77, loving husband, father and grandfather, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004, under the care of Hospice, surrounded by family at his home in Winston-Salem. He was born July 19, 1927, in Chicago, Ill., to Albert and Beatrice Mack. Dr. Mack served in the U.S. Navy during World War II on the USS Hesperia, participating in Operation Crossroads at Bikini Atoll. Dr. Mack earned his B.S. degree from Loyola University of Chicago in 1950. He then attended Stritch School of Medicine of Loyola University, receiving his M.D. in 1954. His internship year was served at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. He then completed his residency in pediatrics at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago from 1955 to 1957. He was in private practice in Berwyn, Ill., from 1957 to 1972, when he became academic director and chairman of the division of pediatrics at MacNeal Memorial Hospital and clinical associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Illinois-Chicago. He left those posts in 1975 to join Bowman Gray School of Medicine as associate professor of pediatrics. Dr. Mack's teaching experience, committee memberships and publications are numerous. A nationally-recognized poisoning expert, he was a regular columnist for Contemporary Pediatrics and the North Carolina Medical Journal. He received the 1987 Jesse H. Neal Editorial Achievement Award from the Association of Business Publishers for his writing. He was also editor of Poison Line, the bulletin of the American Association of Poison Control Centers and associate editor of the accident prevention newsletter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Mack served for six years on the American Academy of Pediatrics committee on accident and poisoning prevention. He was highly acclaimed as a teacher at what was then called Bowman Gray School of Medicine, winning the medical students' award for clinical teaching excellence in 1980, 1984, 1988 and 1995 and a record nine times from the physician assistant students. The medical students also dedicated the yearbook to him in 1986. Dr. Mack retired from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in July 1999 as professor of pediatrics emeritus. He was preceded in death by his parents and his only brother, Leslie H. Mack. Survivors include his loving wife of 52 years, Marcia Garland Bublick; five children, Cindi S. George and husband, Steve, of Charlotte, Jill Olson and husband, Dan, Michael L. Mack and wife, Jan Foster, and Bradley Mack and wife, Teri Capshaw, all of Winston-Salem and Lee Anthony and husband, C.T., of Charlotte; five grandchildren, Jeb T. Littlejohn, Joseph A. Mack, Carson A. Capshaw-Mack, Suzanne G. Mack and Sophie G. Capshaw-Mack, all of Winston-Salem; a sister-in-law; three brothers-in-law and their wives; numerous nieces and nephews; and a loving dog, Ralph Guido Corleone. The funeral will take place at 2:30 p.m. today, Dec. 24, at Vogler & Sons Main St. Chapel. A graveside service will follow at Mount Sinai Cemetery with military honors. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation, 701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 123, Washington, DC 20004-2608 or The Arc of the United States, 1010 Wayne Ave., Suite 50, Silver Spring, MD 29010.

This obituary was originally published in the Winston-Salem Journal.