Obituary for Albert Treger, MD
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 28, 2021
Extract:
Albert Treger "Died on October 25, 2021, after a long illness. He was 89. Dr. Treger was a Brooklyn native. The son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, Dr. Treger was the eldest of three children. He had two sisters, Marilyn Zimmerman, late of New York, and Shirley Lipkin, of California. Dr. Treger attended Stuyvesant, a specialized high-school in New York. He entered Cornell University on a scholarship at age 17. After his junior year, at age 19, Dr. Treger entered medical school at New York University. His medical training took him to Rochester, New York, for his internship, Cleveland, Ohio, for his residency, and Denver, Colorado, for a fellowship in cardiology, the clinical specialty he practiced in Pittsburgh from 1967 to 1998. Dr. Treger and his wife, Rosalyn, met at Cornell and married in 1955."