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James A. Stockman III, MD
American Board of Pediatrics
111 Silver Cedar Ct
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-1651

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2002;156(5):421.

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On November 11, 2001, The ARCHIVES, and pediatrics as a whole, lost a kind and gentle ally when Walter Tunnessen left us after a brief but valiant struggle with melanoma, a disease, given Walter's interest in dermatology, that he often warned his friends and coworkers about, admonishing them to stay out of the sun. In the end, this cancer caused us to lose one of the truly fine educators of our time.

Walter W. Tunnessen, Jr, MD

Walt was a native of Pennsylvania and spent a good deal of his professional career in the northeast. Penn [University of Pennsylvania], The Johns Hopkins University, and SUNY-Syracuse [the State University of New York, Syracuse] were all blessed with his presence before his move to North Carolina. It was during his early faculty days at Penn that some of us were first introduced to Walt's many talents. He . . . [Full Text of this Article]