Dr. Andrew Cederbaum

Dr. Andrew I. Cederbaum, 69 EASTHAM- Dr. Andrew I. Cederbaum, dedicated husband, father, physician, and waffle savant, died suddenly after a brief illness. He was 69. Andy was born and raised in Brooklyn. He attended medical school at NYU, trained as a hematology /oncology fellow at UNC Chapel Hill, and served as an army doctor in Honolulu, HI. He then came to Massachusetts, practicing for seventeen years in Worcester and seventeen more on Cape Cod. He began his specialty in retirement in 2009. Andy was a brilliant and discerning physician who was admired by his colleagues and students. But Andy's passion was for his patients. He related to each with respect, compassion, and at times brutal honesty. He understood these relationships to be among the most important in his life. Andy had a genuine interest in discovering new activities and new people to incorporate into his routine. Retirement gave him the opportunity to bring his energy, intensity, humor, and chit-chat to the Cape community. Ever the teacher, Andy's recent years were a seminar on doing retirement right. On any given day, his agenda might include hiking, biking, tennis, book club, kayaking, sailing, abs class, skiing and, of course, napping. Andy's travels brought him from the Magellan Straights, to the Tasmin Sea, up the Andes Mountains and down the Croatian coast, but he always found his home on First Encounter. As committed as he was to his profession and to his friends, nothing matched Andy's devotion to his family. Andy inherited the role of patriarch from his father and took to it with grace, conviction and love. Andy's kids, Lori, Adam, Lisa, and Kate, counted their father as the go-to for sound advice and unflagging support in matters big and small. He was just getting started to do the same for his grandkids, Aidan, Lila, Andrew, and Alex. Andy was a welcoming father-in-law to Seamus and Karen, and the East Coast anchor for brother Stephen and all the West Coast Cederbaums. His wife, Anne Sigsbee, was his happy and privileged partner in it all. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m on Saturday, September 22nd at First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church on Main Street in Brewster. Donations in Andy's memory may be made to Lower Cape Outreach Council at P.O. Box 665, Orleans, MA, 02653 or online at lcoutreach.org/donategoh.htm.