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In Memoriam: EPH Alumnus Dr. Cecil G. Sheps, Hospital and University Administrator

Dr. Cecil G. Sheps, former director of the Beth Israel hospitals in New York and Boston and founder of a health research center died on February 8 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina at the age of 90.

Dr. Sheps was a native of Winnipeg, Manitoba. He received a medical degree from the University of Manitoba and a master's degree in public health from EPH.

Dr. Sheps spent a great deal of his professional life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), where he became director of program planning in the division of health affairs and a research professor in health planning in 1947. He left UNC in 1953 and returned in 1968 to become the founding director of UNC's Health Services Research Center, which was renamed the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research in his honor in 1991.

From 1953 to 1960, Dr. Sheps was the general director of Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and a professor at Harvard Medical School. In 1965, he became director of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, and also taught at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Sheps was a founding member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Sheps is survived by his son, Dr. Samuel Sheps of Vancouver, a brother, Dr. Sheldon Sheps of Rochester, Minnesota, a sister, Dr. Lucille Ellison of Vancouver, and two grandchildren.