Dr. Patricia A. McIntyre, a professor emeritus at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an international authority in the field of radioactive tracer studies in hematology, died of cancer Sunday at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Gardenville resident was 72.
At the time of her retirement from the medical school in 1980 after 16 years, Dr. McIntyre held the position of associate professor in the departments of medicine, radiology and environmental health.
"She was a solid scientist who was very important in developing the new field of using radioactive tracer isotopes in hematology studies," said Dr. C. Lockard Conley, a former head of the Hopkins hematology division who is credited with advances in such blood diseases as sickle cell anemia.
"She was made for medicine," said Dr. Ursula Scheffel, associate professor of nuclear medicine in the radiology department at Hopkins. "She was a caring physician, a distinguished research scholar and a devoted teacher. [She shaped] the careers of many young doctors and Ph.D students."
After retiring from Hopkins, Dr. McIntyre, an active member of Alcoholics Anonymous and the Physician Rehabilitation Committee, worked with fellow physicians trying to get clean and sober.
She also served on the board of the Tuerk House in West Baltimore, which treats addicts, and was a co-founder of Chrysalis House in Crownsville, a halfway house for women in recovery. In honor of her work with Chrysalis House, a wing there was recently named for her.
Because of her deep interest in helping addicted women, Dr. McIntyre also served on the board of Project Life, a Baltimore group working to convert a World War II-era hospital ship named Sanctuary into a rehabilitation facility for women.
Last year, Dr. McIntyre received the Ruth M. Fox M.D. award, one of two awards given by the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, "in recognition of a lifetime of dedicated service as a physician, leader, teacher, scientist, clinician, administrator and friend."
Born in Christopher, Ill., she was a 1944 graduate of Joliet Township High School and earned her bachelor's degree in 1948 from Kalamazoo College. She earned her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1952 and completed an internship in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1953. She served an assistant residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1953 to 1954.
She was a fellow in medicine in the hematology division at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine from 1955 to 1957, and served as an instructor in the department of medicine as well as director of medical education at the Hospital for the Women of Maryland on Bolton Hill from 1957 to 1958.
Dr. McIntyre, who was widely published during her career, served as clinical director of the department of medicine at Confederate Memorial Medical Center in Shreveport, La., before returning to Hopkins in 1964.
She was a member of numerous professional organizations and an active communicant of Memorial Episcopal Church.
A memorial service was held at the church Thursday evening.
She is survived by a brother, W. Clyde McIntyre of Harrisburg, Pa.; a sister, Jacqueline Hahn of Oklahoma City; two nephews; and her life partner, Mary L. Ross.
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