THOMAS LANSDALE M.D.

LANSDALE THOMAS FRANKLIN LANSDALE, III, M.D. March 1, 1954 - January 15, 2019 Dr. Thomas F. Lansdale, 64, of Baltimore, Maryland died peacefully on the morning of January 15, 2019 at Montgomery Hospice Casey House in Rockville, Maryland, with his daughter, Olivia, by his side. The cause was brain cancer. The eldest son of Thomas Franklin Lansdale and Patricia B. Lansdale-Rice in Sandy Spring, Maryland, he is survived by his mother, Patricia, his three siblings, Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Richard Hyatt Lansdale (Jessica Moore Lansdale), James Page Lansdale (Lyn Camp Lansdale), as well as his beloved daughter, Olivia Margaret Lansdale, and nieces and nephews. His marriage to Jennifer Gallagher ended in divorce. Dr. Lansdale attended Glenelg Country School, Mercersburg Academy, Harvard University, and Case Western Reserve Medical School. After his residency in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, he was recruited to one of the country's first general medicine and primary care training programs at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Under his leadership, it became the largest program of its kind, pioneering the field of primary care in academia and beyond. He was then recruited to chair the Department of Medicine at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, a Johns Hopkins affiliate, where he revolution- ized the standard of care, strengthened the residency program, and oversaw the development of Gilchrist, a leading center in palliative and hospice care. Honored for his teaching nationally and regionally, he taught and mentored generations of physicians - many of whom have become leaders in American medicine. In 2005, he started an innovative medical practice to give patients the time and the services they needed, and in recent years, he became a palliative and hospice care physician. He also continued his decade-long leadership in Healthcare for the Homeless in Baltimore, one of the nation's original and premier programs to provide vital, humane services with the goal of eliminating homelessness with a holistic strategy. Dr. Lansdale was a "doctor's doctor." He ministered to people from every ethnicity, socioeconomic background, and walk of life, and he was especially sought out by countless physicians and other healthcare professionals. He was a healer in the largest sense, was devoted to his patients, with extraordinary bedside warmth and presence, remembered details of his patients' lives, was there in good times and bad, dispensed "Dr. Tom's own honey" and his homemade soup, uplifted and comforted families at times of loss, and attended their family events and their funerals. Dr. Lansdale's other passions included fishing for bass and bluegill, cooking for friends and family, bee keeping, golf, and classical music. He sang in various choirs and chorales over the course of his life and was particularly devoted to decades of singing with his college a capella group, the Harvard Krokodiloes. All who accompanied him in these endeavors will remember him for his grace, wit, and wisdom. He will be dearly missed. A service to celebrate his life will be held on Saturday, February 9th at 11:00 a.m. at the Mercersburg Academy chapel in Mercersburg, PA. Contributions may be made to a scholarship in his name to: The Mercersburg Academy, 300 East Seminary Street, Mercersburg, PA 17236. Contributions may also be made to the organization he loved: Healthcare for the Homeless, 421 Fallsway, Baltimore, MD 21202. Please view and sign the family guest book at: www.PumphreyFuneralHome.comwww.PumphreyFuneralHome.com