Donald Geoffrey (Don) Norris, former assistant professor of Pediatrics at CHOP, died at home with family in Audubon, Pennsylvania, on April 26 from cancer. He was 79. 

Dr. Norris was born in Pullman, Washington. He graduated from Pullman High School and Washington State University. He received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1966, and then pursued advanced medical training at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Medicine. While stationed in Frankfurt, Germany, Dr. Norris served three years as a general medical officer in the Third Armored Division of the US Army, reaching the rank of major.

 He joined the faculty at CHOP as a lecturer in pediatrics and was promoted to assistant professor that year. He left Penn in 1981. He also held positions at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, before launching a second career in peer review and quality improvement in the field of medicine. 

Dr. Norris is survived by his wife, Sue; their son, Geoffrey; his former wife, Bonnie Hepburn; their daughters Wendy (Stuart) and Robin (Peter); granddaughters Casey and Reed; and numerous in-laws, nieces, nephews, and cousins.