Dr. Celia Ores

ORES--Celia. Dr. Celia Ores (nee Nuwendstern), a Holocaust survivor who became a pediatrician specializing in Cystic Fibrosis at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center for 50 years, died September 8, 2025 in Manhattan. She was born in Dubienka, Poland, on May 5th, 1928. At age 12, Celia and her family fled the Nazi occupation to Russia, where they were sent to a Siberian gulag. After the war, Celia earned her MD in Bern, Switzerland, where she was one of two women in her graduating class of 200 men. Working alongside her mentor Dr. Dorothy Andersen, Celia focused on children with CF when life expectancy for the illness rarely extended beyond the early teens; today, the median life expectancy for patients with CF is 65. Celia is survived by her three children, Pauline (Michael McCaffery), David, and Michelle (Charles Schorin), and five grandchildren. Donations may be made to the CF Foundation of Greater NY via check at 222 Bloomingdale Road, Suite 210, White Plains, NY 10605 or Give.cff.org/greater-newyork