Stanley Lewis Wiener

Stanley Lewis Wiener died Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. He was 91.

A 1952 graduate of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, Dr. Wiener received his M.D. from the University of Rochester in 1956. He served in the Air Force from 1956 to 1958 and in the U.S. Army Reserve from 1981 to 2000, retiring as a Colonel. Early in his career, Dr. Wiener was a Fellow in Molecular Biology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Later on, he assisted with the accreditation of the medical school at East Tennessee State University as its first Department Chair of Medicine. He concluded his career as the Chief of Internal Medicine at the University of Illinois - Chicago where he practiced and taught medicine for over twenty years. In his later years, he demonstrated his enduring passion for medical education as he continued to take medical students on attending rounds well into his 70s.

A prolific researcher, Dr. Wiener published dozens of peer-reviewed papers within his specialization of infectious disease. He also wrote several well-received medical textbooks including Differential Diagnosis of Acute Pain and Trauma Management for Civilian and Military Physicians.

Throughout his life, Dr. Wiener enjoyed recreational running and was an enthusiastic reader, especially of classic literature. He was also an accomplished amateur painter, specializing in watercolor landscapes, and enjoyed taking classes to learn new techniques.

He is predeceased by his parents, Irving and Estelle Wiener, and brother, Eliot Wiener, and survived by his six children -- Roy Wiener, Glenn Wiener, Janis Wiener, David Sloan, Rachel Snidow, and Franklin Buchanan -- eleven grandchildren, and seven great grandchildren.