
George A. Rogers
The Philadelphia Inquirer featured an article in remembrance of George A. Rogers, 85, a founder of the psychiatry department at Cooper University Hospital. Rogers died of pneumonia on Monday, June 28, 2010, with friends and family by his side.
Dr. Rogers joined Cooper in 1962 as an attending psychiatrist, mostly checking on his own patients. As he became more involved, he held classes for the medical staff on treatment of alcoholism and psychiatric disorders.
“He got everyone on board,” said Thomas S. Newmark, MD, Chief of Psychiatry at Cooper. “It was because of him that the department started.”
He was an expert in electroconvulsive therapy, a type of shock treatment mostly used on depressed patients, Newmark said.
“It was very successful,” Newmark said, adding that his staff still uses the procedure on some patients.
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