Dr. Gilbert Lanoff

Dr. Gilbert Lanoff was born July 21, 1923 at the American Hospital in Chicago, now called Thorek Hospital. He grew up on the Near North Side and went to LeMoyne Grammar School, then Lake View High School. He graduated from Northwestern University with a B.S. in Chemistry, did research at Purdue University on anti-malarial drugs, and then obtained his M.D. from the University of Illinois School of Medicine in 1948. He spent the next five years at Cook County Hospital performing a two year rotating internship and a two year residency in Pediatrics and a one year fellowship in Allergy. He was in private practice in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood before serving two years in the U.S. Navy at Great Lakes where he was in the department of Pediatrics and head of the Allergy clinic. He was certified in Pediatric Allergy in 1958 and was appointed head of the Department of Allergy at Children's Memorial Hospital where he served voluntarily for almost 20 years until 1978. He also maintained a flourishing private practice in Waukegan and Chicago. He published several research papers and served on the Board of the American College of Allergy. He continued practicing medicine until the age of 87. He met his lovely wife Shirley, noted yoga and folk dancing teacher, at Northwestern in 1945. They shared 64 beautiful years of marriage. He served as President of Hillel Torah Day School where the middle school was named after him. He also served as President of Ida Crown Academy as well as Congregation Yehuda Moshe for many years. He had been Scholarship Chairman of Hebrew Theological College for many years and was on the Board of Directors. He leaves behind his wife Shirley (nee Stein), three children, Vicki (Dr. Mark) Ephron, Dawn (Dr. Sendy) Weiss, and Dr. Martin (Carolyn) Lanoff. He was the cherished grandfather of Chaya (Aron) Troppe, Raanan (Henny) Ephron, Moshe Ephron, Joseph Weiss, Rebecca (John) Howard, Ethan, Dylan, and Justin Lanoff, and the late Ruthie Ephron. He was the proud great-grandfather of seven. Funeral services were held. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Congregation Yehuda Moshe, www.yehudamoshe.com, or Hillel Torah Lanoff Middle School, www.hilleltorah.org. Info, 847-256-5700.