David Schlossberg, adjunct professor of medicine in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, died February 28. He was 74.

Dr. Schlossberg earned his degree in English from Yale in 1966 and his MD from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1970. He was an intern and resident at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York and then went on to a fellowship in infectious diseases at Emory University School of Medicine. While at Emory, Dr. Schlossberg worked closely with Jonas “Jack” Shulman, professor emeritus of medicine in the division of infectious diseases. Dr. Schlossberg co-edited a book with Dr. Shulman entitled Differential Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases (1996).

Dr. Schlossberg served two years in the US Navy as chief of infectious diseases at the Naval Regional Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia, and was director of the department of medicine at the Polyclinic Medical Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1984. He went on to positions as director of the department of medicine and head of infectious diseases at Episcopal Hospital in Philadelphia and director of medical services at Merck & Co.

He held faculty positions at various schools starting in 1977 and joined the faculty at the Perelman School of Medicine in 2006 as an adjunct professor. He was on the faculty at the time of his death. He was also the director of the Tuberculosis Control Program for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health and a faculty member at Jefferson Medical College. Dr. Schlossberg published more than 100 articles, editorials and book chapters, and he edited nearly 30 textbooks in infectious diseases and related topics.

He is survived by his partner, Yuan Mirow; children, Karen, Amy (Lauren) and Aaron; siblings, Jo (Bill), Beth, and Peter (Ruth); grandchildren, Nathan, Adam and Meyer; and nieces, Candice and Laura (Kyle) and nephew, Max.

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