Morrie E. Kricun, emeritus professor of radiology in Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, died April 4 at Einstein Medical Center Montgomery. He was 82.

Dr. Kricun was born in Philadelphia and graduated from Central High School in Philadelphia in 1955 and Muhlenberg College in 1959. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1963 and completed an internship and diagnostic radiology residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. He was also a veteran of the United States Air Force.

Dr. Kricun joined Penn as a lecturer in radiology at the School of Medicine in 1981. He was appointed an associate professor of radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1982, and he became a standing faculty-clinician educator in radiology in 1988. He was promoted to professor 1990. He received a University Research Foundation Grant for “Radiology-Paleopathology of the Skeletal Remains of Prehistoric Australian Aborigines.” He earned emeritus status in 2000, and he retired in 2002.

He was a longtime member of the International Skeletal Society and was awarded a Medal for his lasting contributions. He also authored a book on Elvis Presley. 

He is survived by his wife, Virginia; brother, Robert (Stephanie); niece, Ashley Summer (Ross); nephew Bret (Hilary); great nieces and nephews, Jacob and Ella Summer and Eva and Samuel Kricun; and many loving cousins, including Marilyn Wernick Toub. The family will hold a memorial service in the future to celebrate Dr. Kricun’s life when it is safe to do so.