Ugo Carpentieri M.D.,D.Sc.

I loved going to his lectures at UTMB. His humor shown through and enabled medical students remember the importance of the subject of his lecture. I was snickering, trying not to laugh out loud when a student sitting next to me, thinking "Another boring lecture"asked me what was funny about the lecture. I told him that if he listened carefully, he'd hear two subjects.. the subject but also woven was Dr. Carpentieri's humor deliberately placed to help students recall that subject. I started hearing Snickers from him. After the lecture ended he stood and applauded! He turned to me and said how happy he was that he had sat next to me, that from that point on he'd always listen for the two subjects in Dr. C.'s lectures.

Dr. Carpentieri was always making me laugh; of the time his dry humor went over most sudents' heads. They looked over at me who was doubled over in laughter.

I was a medical social worker at UTMB in Galveston being assigned to Pedi. Hem/Onc. working with Dr. Carpentieri in the late 1980s. I loved his humor. My office was in the lab across from his office. He came in one day, put mice in a centrifuge for one of his many experiments. He looked over at me and said."They're going on a merry go round ride!" as he turned it on. I burst out laughing. I left UTMB to work at the Texas Dept. of Health and was very saddened to learn he hadn't been named department head. I loved how he cared for his patients. One teenage girl was very ill with a recurrent cancer. She was in PICU; her parents had gone for the Christmas holidays, but not Dr. Carpentieri. He stayed with her until she died later that n