Dr. Samuel Baum

BAUM Dr. Samuel, a retired pediatrician, prominent medical figure, and the father of four physicians, died Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at the age of 87. Samuel Baum, MD was born March 20, 1921 in Passaic, New Jersey. He graduated with honors from Passaic High School in 1939 and received his B.S. from Tulane University in 1943 and his medical degree from Tulane University Medical School in 1945. At Tulane, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Baum interned at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY in 1945-46 and completed a residency at the Barnett Memorial Hospital in Paterson in 1946-47. In 1948, he did a 6-month residency at the Kingston Avenue Hospital for Communicable Diseases where he worked with polio patients. From 1948 to 1950, he completed a residency in Pediatrics at Queens General Hospital. From 1951 to 1953, he served as a Captain in the United States Army during the Korean War. Beginning in 1953, Dr. Baum practiced pediatrics in Passaic for over 50 years. He served for many years as the school physician for Pope Pius XII High School and also did institutional reviews for New Jersey Medicaid. He was a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Baum was an active member of the Medical Staff at the Passaic General Hospital where he served as President of the Medical Staff and Director of the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Baum was also a past President of the Passaic County Medical Society and an original trustee of the Medical Inter-exchange of New Jersey, the physician-founded medical malpractice company later known as MIIX. He was a longstanding member of the Medical Society of New Jersey and received its Golden Merit Award in 1995 commemorating his fifty years of service as a physician. Dr. Baum was married to the late Ethel Stuhlbach Baum who died in 2001. He has four children (all physicians), Dr. Howard B. Baum of Wayne, N.J., Dr. Connie Baum Newman of Oxford, England and Warren, NJ, Dr. Richard Baum of Saddle River, NJ, and Dr. Mark Baum of Moorestown, N.J. and eight grandchildren. His brother, Irving Baum, predeceased him. Services will be held at the Jewish Memorial Chapel, 841 Allwood Road in Clifton, New Jersey on Friday, April 18, 2008 at 12:30 PM. Memorial donations in his memory can be made to the Daughters of Miriam Center/Gallen Institute in Clifton, New Jersey.