Louis Schwab ’41

Lou died Aug. 8, 2007.

A native of Cincinnati, he graduated from the Walnut Hills School. At Princeton, Lou majored in chemistry and graduated with honors. A member of Tower Club, he roomed with Ed Gamble and Alan Clark.

After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1944, he served in the Army, separating as a captain. During his residency in Boston, Lou participated in early breakthrough studies of bacterial resistance and the use of penicillin. Later, he helped in the development of artificial heart valves and a cardioscope for direct inspection of the interior of the heart. In 1995, he was granted a patent for an apparatus to better administer tests for tuberculosis.

Lou began a pediatrics practice in Cincinnati in 1958, and served as professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and president of the medical and dental staff of Cincinnati Children's Hospital. He also helped form the first cystic fibrosis clinic.

In 1972, he became medical director of the North Shore Children's Hospital in Salem, Mass., as well as assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at Harvard. In 1974, he became medical director of Children's Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, from which he retired in 1985 to resume pediatric practice in Xenia, Ohio. He retired in 1988.

Lou was predeceased by his wife, Anne Keville Schwab. He is survived by his three sons, Louis III, John, and Bill.