Bert Myers M.D.

Bert Myers M.D. died on June 6, 2021 at the age of 92. He was born on September 12, 1928 at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans. He attended Lusher Elementary School, Isidore Newman High School, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Tulane University School of Medicine, graduating first in his class in 1951. He completed an internship and residency in General Surgery at Touro Infirmary. He served two years as Staff Surgeon in the United States Public Health Service. He was in the private practice of surgery in New Orleans for 11 years, then became Professor of Surgery at Louisiana State University School of Medicine, and worked for 33 years as Staff Surgeon at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in New Orleans.

He was a member of the American College of Surgeons, Southeastern Surgical Society, the Louisiana and the New Orleans Surgical Society, serving as its secretary and president in the 1980's. He was elected to membership in the Southern Surgical Association and the American Hernia Society. Although not a plastic surgeon, he was asked to be in and was an active member of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons and the Plastic Surgery Research Council. He coauthored and published a medical text book "Skin Flaps", wrote chapters in 5 other medical text books and published over 100 articles in peer reviewed medical journals. He was visiting professor or guest lecturer at over 25 academic institutions worldwide.

Dr. Myers had a lifelong interest in fine art photography, and studied with Eugene Delcroix, Ansel Adams, and Michael A. Smith. He was one of the pioneers in holography, and made many 3-D images of medical subjects, trying to develop the technique as a medical teaching tool. After retirement from medicine, he became a full­ time fine art photographer, specializing in images made from X-rays and high contrast derivations from conventional images. He published two books about art. The first was "Festival of Fins 2000,” a documentation of a public art display in New Orleans, and the second was "The Inner Beauty of Nature-X-RAY Photography,” the first book written about X-ray art, which included both history and technique. He has had shows of his art in New Orleans and Baton Rouge in Louisiana, and in Florida, Mississippi, as well as Pittsburgh, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Portland, and also in Scotland, England, France, and Hungary. His work is in private collections worldwide. He has taught photography at the Jewish Community Center, Tulane University, the free University of New Orleans, and the PEOPLE program in New Orleans.

He was predeceased by his wife, the former Joel Grossman Myers, and is survived by his 3 children, Brad Myers (Bernita), Melanie Bronfin (Daniel), and Eve Herman, grandchildren Ryan Myers, Reid Myers (Angela), Grant Myers, Ethan Myers, Michael Bronfin, Neil Bronfin, David Herman, and Stephanie Herman. His family gratefully requests that memorials be made to WYES or to the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Visitation will be held on Friday, June 11, 2021 at Temple Sinai beginning at 11:30am followed by a 12:00pm memorial service. Interment will be private.

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