Background
Bartunek, Robert Richard was born on December 3, 1914 in Cleveland. Son of Emil Arthur and Mae (Friedl) Bartunek.
Bartunek, Robert Richard was born on December 3, 1914 in Cleveland. Son of Emil Arthur and Mae (Friedl) Bartunek.
AB, Case Western Reserve University, 1936. Doctor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 1940.
Intern, St. Alexis Hospital, Cleveland, 1940-1941;
resident, St. Alexis Hospital, 1941-1942;
fellow in medicine, Cleveland Clinic., 1946-1948;
private practice medicine, specializing in gastroenterology, Cleveland, 1949-1991;
member of staff, St. Alexis Hospital, 1948-1991;
director gastroenterology, St. Alexis Hospital, 1949-1981;
director medicine, St. Alexis Hospital, 1952-1961;
director laboratories, St. Alexis Hospital, 1950-1962;
member of staff, St. Vincent Charity Hospital, Cleveland, 1950-1996;
director gastroenterology, St. Vincent Charity Hospital, 1960-1983;
director emeritus, St. Vincent Charity Hospital, 1983-1996;
director medicine, St. Vincent Charity Hospital, 1966-1972, 80-81. Associate member of staff emeritus Metropolitan General Hospital. Consultant Marymount Hospital, Garfield Heights, Ohio.
Faculty member Case Western Reserve U. Medical School, from 1952, up through ranks to associate professor, 1980.
Member medical morals advisory board Cleveland Catholic Diocese. Served to lieutenant colonel Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Fellow American College Gastroenterology (president 1963-1964, Samuel Weiss award 1974), American College of Physicians, American Association for the Advancement of Science (council 1963-1976).
Member American Geriatric Society, American Society Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Association Military Surgeons, International Congress of Internal Medicine, American Society Internal Medicine, Cleveland Diabetes Association (director 1967-1970), American Medical Association, Ohio Medical Association, Cleveland Academy Medicine, L'Organisation Mondiale de Gastro-Enterologie (United States delegate 1963-1965), Nu Sigma Nu.
Married Clare Elizabeth Lonsway, December 30, 1943 (deceased July 1975). Children: Jean Marie, Robert R., Thomas J. Married Mary Anne Piotrkowski, July 23, 1978.