Obituaries

Irving E. Hagadorn, 85, longtime surgeon

Irving E. Hagadorn, 85, longtime Buffalo surgeon and a faculty member at the UB medical school, died Sept. 10 in Buffalo General Hospital after a lengthy illness.

Hagadorn attended UB and Canisius College and graduated in 1937 from medical school at Loyola University, Chicago. He returned to Buffalo and served on the staff at Buffalo General and Children's hospitals. He was a member of the American College of Surgeons, the New York State Society of Surgeons as well as the AMA and New York State and Erie County medical societies.

Funeral services were private.

Joseph Macmanus, 84, surgeon, clinical prof

Services were held Sept. 9 in Pikesville Md., for Joseph Macmanus, 84, a surgeon who played a pivotal role in establishing the open heart surgical service at Buffalo General Hospital. Macmanus died Sept. 6 in Johns Hopkins Bayview Geriatric Center in Baltimore.

Macmanus, who received his medical degree from Harvard University in 1936, was a surgeon in Buffalo from 1942 until his retirement in 1974. He was an attending surgeon and chief of Division III at Buffalo General Hospital, where he was credited with spearheading the effort in 1959 to obtain a large grant critical to the establishment of the open heart surgical service. He was also a consulting surgeon at Children's Hospital and at Roswell Park Memorial (now Cancer) Institute.

Affiliated with the UB medical school throughout his career in Buffalo, he was appointed an assistant in surgery in 1942 and served as clinical professor of surgery from 1961 to 1972.

He was a past president of the Erie County Medical Society, Erie County Chapter of the American Cancer Society, Heart Association of Erie County and Buffalo Surgical Society.


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