Peter Page
Peter Laurence Page
11 Jun 1946 - 09 May 2014
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Biography
Peter was a member of several clubs in cities across the country, including Boston, Philadelphia, DC, Hollywood, and Long Beach.
In 2014, the Serpentine Society, the University of Virginia's LGBTQ Alumni Network, received a bequest to endow a scholarship and grant fund from the late Dr. Peter L. Page, a 1967 graduate of the College of Arts & Sciences and a graduate of the School of Medicine who went on to have a long and distinguished career in transfusion medicine.[1]
Obituary
Page, Dr. Peter L. Dr. Page died on May 9, 2014 after a long and distinguished career in transfusion medicine. Devoting his career to the safety of blood transfusions, he served in many leadership positions throughout the American National Red Cross Blood Program for over 28 years. Board certified in Internal Medicine, Oncology, Hematology, and Blood Banking, he worked at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and was an attending physician at the West Roxbury V.A. Medical Center before joining the American Red Cross in 1978. He became CEO of the Northeast Region Red Cross Blood Center in Dedham, MA in 1983.
After participating in the clinical trial of the first test for HIV, he worked tirelessly on issues of testing methodology, confidentiality, anonymous testing, and counseling. During implementation of the first HIV test in 1985, he provided leadership to Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the City of Boston Mayor's Commission on AIDS, and the AIDS Action Committee. His efforts to inform the public and to ensure the safety of the blood supply during this unprecedented time were recognized by the Governor of Massachusetts, the Mayor of Boston, the American Association of Blood Banks, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The only child of Elden Laurence Page and Anna-Berta (Jakobson) Page, Peter was born in Stockholm, Sweden June 11, 1946. As a member of the US Foreign Service, his father traveled the world and Peter grew up in Athens, London, Budapest, Okinawa, and in the Washington, DC area. A graduate of the University of Virginia Medical School, Peter completed his medical training in Philadelphia at NIH and the Harvard Medical School.
Known for his high energy, logical problem solving, and persistence to solutions, Peter was often called on to lead the Red Cross blood program through organizational transitions. At the Red Cross National Headquarters in Washington, DC he served in leadership roles for regulatory activities, the medical office, and for the blood testing laboratories throughout the country. After serving as CEO of Southern California Red Cross Blood Center in Los Angeles for three years, he returned to the Red Cross national headquarters medical office until he retired in 2006. In retirement he also served as a consultant to the World Health Organization.
His many friends remember his boundless energy in all his varied interests, to just name a few - skiing all over the world, scuba diving, sailing, white water rafting, square dancing, and lately his interest in contract and duplicate bridge. He has been an ambassador member of Gamma Mu, a long time member of Los Papagayos, and a host for 27 years of the popular end of summer White Party in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His long time partner Robert L. Black died in 1989. Peter succumbed to esophageal cancer at his home in Boston. He was 67. Services are private. Memorials preferred to the Outer Cape Health Services, PO Box 1413. Wellfleet, MA 02667[2]
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