LEISTIKOW, Elizabeth Ann 1950-2005
LEISTIKOW
Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 12/26/2014 at 23:17:20
[Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Tuesday, January 3, 2006]
Elizabeth Ann Leistikow June 8, 1950 - Dec. 21, 2005
Loving daughter, sister, aunt, athlete, pediatrician, neonatologist, researcher, friend, and helper
Elizabeth graduated from Waterloo West High School. She received bachelors and Masters degrees from Michigan State University; PhD, MD and her pediatric residency from Wayne State University; and her neonatology fellowship from Case Western Reserve University.
She loved being active. She was on several Michigan State University teams including basketball, volleyball, tennis and field hockey. She stayed fit through walks, runs, other workouts, and sports with her nieces and nephews.
Elizabeth loved nature and exploring. She enjoyed just being outdoors, solar and lunar eclipses, sand viewed by electron microscopy, and her many researches. She enjoyed Florida and Carolina coasts, Alaskan rivers, Colorado Rockies, Canadian lakes, hiking, camping, sailing, biking, fishing, horses, and music.
She researched topics ranging from the pragmatic, to the complex and the beautiful. Her research focused initially on blood, then on fetal and infant physiology, epidemiology, and unusual cases. She published on fetal origins of heart disease, preventing health-care worker HIV infections, the questionable expense of certain tests on newborns, beautiful electron micrographs of beach sands of the world, and more. She published in Scientific American, Pediatrics, Blood, and many other journals. She presented her research in America, Europe, and Asia. Her study suggesting ways to perhaps halve US infant mortality is submitted to a May 2006 conference.
She worked as a neonatologist in the Midwest and more recently in the South, where she made Florida her home. She enjoyed her neighbors and community as well as friends from her study, work, and travel.
Elizabeth contributed to many charities. She aided the International Red Cross, Care, and Doctors without Borders. Near home, she assisted abused children, her local library, people needing income tax filing aid, the Panama City Rescue Mission, and others. She volunteered her medical skills after the recent hurricanes in New Orleans.
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