Dr. Leonard S. Kaplow, professor emeritus of pathology and laboratory medicine, died on June 5 at the VA Hospital in White River Junction, Vermont.
He was 83 years old.
Dr. Kaplow was a member of the School of Medicine faculty for 24 years, serving at the Veterans Affairs Administration Medical Center in West Haven (now the VA Connecticut Healthcare System).
The Yale physician authored book chapters, monographs, abstracts and over 100 scientific articles focusing on the fields of hematocytology, laboratory computerization and automation. He described a method for observing and quantifying enzymes in white blood cells, called a citation classic by the Institute for Scientific Information. With associates, he reported the transient disappearance of white blood cells in dialysis patients, and the presence of a herpes-like virus in Guinea pig leukemia.
A 1941 graduate of Rutgers University, where he majored in bacteriology, Dr. Kaplow was commissioned in 1943 by the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service and was assigned to convoy shipments of poison gas to Canada and England. In 1944, he was re-assigned as laboratory officer for the hospital ship "U.S.S. Comfort," which was attacked by a Japanese suicide plane. He was given the Purple Heart for injuries he received.
He became a laboratory supervisor in Burlington, Vermont, and attended the University of Vermont, where he received a M.S. degree in 1955 and an M.D. degree with honors in 1959. He held residencies in pathology at Georgetown University, where he was a National Cancer Institute trainee, and at the Medical College of Virginia, where he served as assistant professor of pathology 1963-1964.
Dr. Kaplow came to New Haven in 1964 as assistant clinical professor of pathology at the School of Medicine and pathologist at the VA center. At the time of his retirement in 1987, he was chief of laboratory services at the VA Center.
A longtime resident of Orange, Connecticut, Dr. Kaplow moved to Branford, Vermont, after his retirement and became the town's health officer for three years. Photos that he took appeared in Vermont Life and on the cover of medical journals.
Dr. Kaplow was past president of the Association of VA Chiefs of Laboratory Services and the Histochemical Society.
He is survived by his wife, Sheila; a daughter, Roberta, of Corinth, Vermont; a son, David, of New Haven; two grandchildren; and a sister, Shirley Schwartz, of Redbank, New Jersey.
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