Dr. Arthur Schneider, Professor Emeritus, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago Medical School, passed away surrounded by some of his family in his Larkspur, Colorado home on December 13, 2021. He was born on March 24, 1929 in Los Angeles, California.
Schneider grew up in Belmont Shore, a beach community in Long Beach, a city in Southern California. After graduating from Long Beach’s Wilson High School at the top of his class, he did his undergraduate work at University of California in Los Angeles, and then graduated from Chicago Medical School in 1955.
He was married for 60 years to the late Edith Kadison Schneider and was the father of three children: Jo Ann Schneider Farris, William Schneider, and Lynnellen Schneider. He had eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Dr. Schneider was certified by the American Board of Pathology in Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Pathology, and Hematology. He was also certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He practiced medicine in California, Colorado, and Illinois and lived in all three of those states.
Prior to becoming the department chair for over 40 years at Rosalind Franklin University’s University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School, Dr. Schneider was the head of the department of Pathology at the City of Hope Medical Center and on the teaching staff at UCLA’s School of Medicine and assistant department head of Hematology and Clinical Pathology at the Wadsworth Veterans hospital in Los Angeles.
Some of his most notable works include the molecular genetics of triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) deficiency, a hereditary hemolytic anemia associated with progressive neuromuscular dysfunction. Together with the late Dr. Phillip Szanto, he co-authored PATHOLOGY - Board Review Series, a textbook that was used in medical schools all over the world.
In addition, he loved figure skating and was a U.S. Figure Skating judge and official for over 50 years. His three children and five of his eight grandchildren became high level skaters. Two of his three children became skating coaches and four of his five skating grandchildren became professional ice show skaters and also went on to coach skating. He was a past member of the Arctic Blades Figure Skating Club, the Los Angeles Figure Skating Club, and the Broadmoor Skating Club. Near the end of his life, the DuPage Figure Skating Club in Chicago granted him lifetime honorary membership. Dr. Schneider’s skating life is described in detail in an autobiography, MY SKATING LIFE: About My 50 Plus Years of Skating written by his oldest daughter Jo Ann Schneider Farris.
After his retirement, Schneider spent most of his time either at his condominium at the Portofino on Naples Island right next to where he grew up in Belmont Shore in Long Beach, California or at his Colorado home.
He will be missed by many of the lives he touched in his 92 plus years.
Donations in his memory may be sent to Temple Israel Long Beach, California’s Library Fund.
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