Joseph Anthony Mead Jr., MD, a retired Mercy Medical Center official and University of Maryland School of Medicine professor in Baltimore, died of complications from a stroke March 8, according to a Baltimore Sun report.
Dr. Mead was an intern, resident and chief resident at Mercy Medical Center, formerly Mercy Hospital. At Mercy, Dr. Mead previously served as chief of cardiology, assistant chief of the department of medicine, vice president for medical affairs and chief of the department of internal medicine, according to the report.
Dr. Mead was also an instructor at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry and associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, his biography states..
Outside of Mercy, he had been personal physician to former Maryland Gov. William Donald Schaefer (D) and worked to help create Health Care for the Homeless and the Baltimore Child Abuse Center, according to the report.
"He was a man who believed in the healing arts, believed in knowing the latest science information and who had a compassionate touch with patients," U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Maryland) said in an email, according to the report. "At one time when my own mother was in the hospital and I was being called to vote in Washington, it was Dr. Joe who stood at her bedside and said, 'We will take care of your mother, you go to Washington and take care of Medicare.'"
"Care was his middle name," Ms. Mikulski added. "He had a big impact on many."