Donald Dembo

Donald Dembo was born in Baltimore and educated at Baltimore City's Public Schools No. 62 and 49. MedChi now owns the former School 49 property. He attended the Baltimore Polytechnic High School, and then received his BA in 1951 from Johns Hopkins University. Following that, he attended the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), where he graduated in 1955. 

After medical school, Dr. Dembo became a rotating intern at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore and completed his residency at the University of Maryland's hospital. For the next two years, Dr. Dembo was an assistant cardiologist at the 97th General Hospital in Frankfurt, Germany. When he returned to Baltimore, Dr. Dembo was the Heart Association of Maryland's Fellow in Cardiology at UMSOM. He then became an assistant professor of medicine of cardiology at the University.

In 1961, Dr. Dembo became the Chief of Cardiology at Maryland General Hospital, a position he held until 1991. Concurrently, he was also the Chief of Cardiology at Good Samaritan Hospital from 1971 to 1992. And from 1991 to 1995, he was the Associate Chief of Medicine and Acting Chief of Cardiology at Sinai Hospital. 

Additionally, Dr. Dembo was an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins and the Director of Johns Hopkins Heart Health in Timonium, Maryland from 1995 to 2010.

Dr. Dembo has served as the President of the Baltimore City Medical Society, MedChi, and the Maryland Society of Cardiology, as well as being a Governor of the Maryland American College of Cardiology where he received the Founders Award. 

He has conducted professional seminars and cardiology exchange tours around the world including to Italy, France, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Kenya, Spain, Portugal, China and Russia. 

Dr. Dembo has been married to Libby Dembo since 1952 and is the father of three children, six grandchildren and one great-grandchild (as of this writing). Dr and Mrs. Dembo are snowbirds, spending time in Baltimore and Long Boat Key in Florida.

Dr. Dembo died on August 10, 2022.