January 30, 2004

Dear Colleagues:

With great sadness, we inform you of another untimely death: Emergency Medicine Assistant Chief of Service Mark Gundry Dogoli died yesterday, apparently of natural causes.

Dr. Dogoli, 33, was a triathlete and seemed to be in good health, but apparently had a family history of early cardiac death. At dinner with friends on Wednesday evening, he said he wasn't feeling well. When he couldn't be reached by phone all day Thursday, his friends went to his Columbia home early Friday morning and found him. EMS was called and pronounced him dead.

Mark Dogoli will be tremendously missed. He joined Emergency Medicine five years ago and was in his final year of the two year ACS program. According to Emergency Medicine Director Gabe Kelen, Mark did a superb job as a teacher of medical students and residents and was expected to join the faculty in July as Director of the Medical Student Clerkship.

Born in Buffalo, he moved to Florida with his family and did his undergraduate and some graduate work at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He earned his medical degree at the University of Miami.

Sincere condolences are extended to Mark's family, friends and colleagues in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Hopkins and Bayview. Information about funeral arrangements will be conveyed as it becomes available.