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Women’s Health Expert Dr. Bernard Eskin Has Died
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ANDY GOTLIEB | JE MANAGING EDITOR
DR. BERNARD “BERNIE”
Abraham Eskin, whose medical
career as an OB-GYN included
teaching and research into
women’s health, died Dec. 29. He
was 92.

“He felt very strongly that
women had the right to control
their bodies and have appro-
priate health care,” daughter
Catherine Eskin said.

A just married Eskin
arrived in Philadelphia in 1955
from Albany Medical College,
interning at Einstein Medical
Center Northern Division,
where he was the first man to
get a residency in OB/GYN at
the Women’s Medical College
of Pennsylvania.

“He felt like he should learn
Dr. Eskin conducts research.

Bernie and Lynn Eskin
Photos courtesy of Catherine Eskin
women’s health from women,” institution and its successors
Catherine Eskin said.

for 63 years — teaching as a
He remained with the professor of obstetrics and
gynecology at Women’s Med,
Medical College of Pennsylvania
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Medicine (after a 2003 merger).

Throughout his career, he was
an active researcher, studying
the breast and breast cancer,
and served as lead researcher on
studies that advanced research
and clinical applications of
His Torah has been a blessing and an
iodine and related treatments.

inspiration for us at Adath Israel and for
Later research focused on
the way medical practitioners
GROUNDBREAKING OF THE
countless people in the Greater Philadelphia
treated aging in women.

TUTTLEMAN CHAPEL, 1990
He wrote the first textbook,
Jewish Community and beyond.

which is still widely used, on
menopause and discovered
what he called “geri-pause” —
a shift in hormones that occurs
after menopause is completed.

Catherine Eskin said his
father’s research interests
dovetailed with the physical
experiences of his wife Lynn
over the years.

Eskin was a member of the
Philadelphia County Medical
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Medical Society for 64 years, as
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well as a member of the PCMS
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board of directors and a delegate
Adath Israel mourns the loss of
our beloved Rabbi Emeritus,
Fredric Kazan z”l.

May his memory continue to be
such a blessing and an inspiration.

A virtual memorial tribute will be held on
February 3, 2021 at 7:00 PM.

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