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John B. Shapleigh, II, MD graduated from Washington University School of Medicine in the Class of 1946. An instructor of clinical medicine at WUSM since 1949, he died Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011, at Mari de Villa in Ballwin, Mo., of apparent complications from a respiratory infection. He was 89.

Dr. Shapleigh, known for his compassion was the son of Dorothy S. Shapleigh and banker Blaisdell Shapleigh. He was the grandson of Dr. John B. Shapleigh, 1857-1925, the first head of Otolaryngology at Washington University Medical School.

"In 1999, Dr. Shapleigh's work helped bring about the first free-standing hospice in the St. Louis area: de Greeff Hospice House at St. Anthony's Medical Center in south St. Louis County. The hospice had helped more than 3,000 terminally ill people, by 2011... In the 1970s, he and others started one of the first hospice programs in St. Louis, at the old St. Luke's Hospital on Delmar Boulevard. Dr. Shapleigh was medical director."

"Dr. Shapleigh graduated from Country Day School, Dartmouth College and Washington University Medical School before serving as a Navy doctor after World War II. He returned to St. Louis, where he practiced as an internist, hematologist (specialist in blood illnesses) and oncologist (cancer specialist) for nearly 50 years."

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University of Virginia Hospital (1901-present) ... is a part of a larger entity known variously as the University of Virginia Medical Center (1962?-1987?); University of Virginia Health Sciences Center (1988?-1998); University of Virginia Health System (1998- )).

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