Frank Marlowe

Frank Irwin Marlowe, a longtime faculty member at University of Pennsylvania who taught otorhinolaryngology, died on September 15 at the age of 82.

Dr. Marlowe graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in pharmacy before earning a medical degree from University of Pittsburgh in 1963.

He completed an internship and specialty training at the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia and was appointed as chief of the ear, nose and throat department and head of the residency training program. He was commissioned in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps as a lieutenant commander and served for eight years on active duty and spent 30 years in the Reserves. He retired after 30 years of service with the rank of Naval Captain and was consultant to the Surgeon General of the Navy. 

Dr. Marlowe joined Penn in 1972 as a lecturer in the department of otolaryngology and became an assistant clinical professor in 1993.

He later worked for Drexel University College of Medicine.

In 1980, he received the Honors Award from the American Academy of Otolaryngology— Head and Neck Surgery. He served as president of the Philadelphia Society of the Department of Facial Plastic Surgery and the Pennsylvania Academy of Otolaryngology— Head and Neck Surgery.

He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Myrna; his sons, Andrew (Jeanne) and Scott (Susan) and daughter Mychele; and his grandchildren, Jacob, Robert, Isaac, Alexander, Fiona, Lila and Alexis.

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