Scott E. Wang
Dateline: Jamestown
Wang, Scott E., MD of Jamestown, RI died peacefully on Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at home surrounded by his loving family, after a valiant five-year battle with brain cancer. He had just celebrated his 61st birthday two days prior. Scott was a devoted husband and loving father, as well as a talented and compassionate physician. The son of Arlene Wang and the late Herbert Wang, he is survived by “the love of his life,” Carol Wang, and his son and daughter, Joshua and Rachael Wang. He is also survived by his sister, Beth Nast, and her husband, Bill, his brother, David Wang, and his wife, Debbie, his uncle, Bernie Margolis, his sisters-in-law, Gail O’Leary and Pat Moseley and her husband, Hank, and his many nephews and nieces.
Scott grew up in Rhode Island and completed secondary school in Newton, MA, where his family moved in 1970. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duke University and received his medical degree from Boston University in 1980. He completed his residency in Pathology at the University of California, Los Angeles and his fellowship at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. After serving on the faculty of Allegheny General Hospital and the Medical College of Pennsylvania as the Director of Cytology, Cytogenetics, and Blood Bank, Scott moved back to his beloved Rhode Island to serve as Chairman of the Department of Pathology at Newport Hospital for nearly twenty years until his retirement due to illness as Honorary Staff in 2011.
Scott was a distinguished leader in pathology. He was an inspector and state delegate for the College of American Pathologists for nearly twenty years, served as treasurer/secretary for the Rhode Island Society of Pathologists, and was the pathology representative to the Rhode Island Medical Society. He was also a long-standing member of the Rhode Island Brain and Spinal Tumor Foundation and was a strong voice of hope for individuals and families battling brain tumors.
Scott had an amazingly positive outlook at all times, even in the face of tremendous obstacles. He lived life to its fullest, traveling the world and enjoying the backyards of his home state. Scott was an avid cyclist and skier, and he spent every summer by the water, kayaking along the coast. His devotion to his beloved wife and children served as the foundation for his life. Scott was proud of his many contributions to the field of medicine, but he was most proud of his two children. Scott’s journey was filled with love, courage and hope.
A memorial service will be held on Monday, May 11, at 1:00 p.m. in Temple Sinai, 30 Hagen Ave., Cranston, RI. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Scott’s memory may be made to RI Brain and Spine Tumor Foundation, 118 Dudley St., Providence, RI 02905 or Home & Hospice Care of RI, 1085 North Main St., Providence, RI 02904 or to the charity of your choice.
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I am so sorry to hear today of Scott’s death from another coach at the South County YMCA. Scott’s amazing positive outlook was evident in his classes with us, which he attended with his dear wife Carol.
He was so proud of his children, and also of his work as a pathologist and of the lecture series he supported at Rhode Island Hospital. He was one truly of those lucky people whose purpose on the earth was very clear and very beneficial.
Warmest thoughts,
Dorothy Devine
LIVESTRONG Coach
South County YMCA
Dr. Scott Wang will long be remembered for his love, kindness and compassion for all. He was a dedicated doctor, respected by everyone who came into contact with him.
We share the grief as friends and know that he will live on in our hearts with fond memories.
With deepest sympathy and love to his family,
Elie and Marcia Cohen
I am so sorry to learn of Scott’s passing. Scott was a childhood friend of mine with whom I was able to reconnect, only recently. He invited me to visit him on Jamestown last summer. It was wonderful to spend the better part of the day with him. It as as though we had never gone our separate ways. We spoke a great deal about family, our childhood, and sailing. A poem comes to mind, which has given me comfort in times like this, which I think Scott would have liked:
Crossing the Bar
BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;
For tho’ from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crost the bar.
Scott led a full, courageous, and happy life to the very end. His smile will stay with me forever.
I am so saddened to hear of Scott’s passing. We have been friends for over 30 years. What a terrific and compassionate person. I still remember those long nights during residency when we would hang out together. And it was terrific seeing Scott and Carol at various meetings. The world has lost a wonderful person. We are all so enriched by having him part of our lives.
I trained at UCLA with Scott; I believe I was a year or two ahead of him. I am so sorry to hear of his passing. He was a great guy, with a great sense of humor.
As Scott’s loving sister I can tell you all that the world had lost and amazing person in every way. We think of him every day and laugh and smile and are enriched by his brilliance and love we shared all the days of our lives. Scott loved his family and he loved his friends. He loved Life, more than anyone I know and he embraced it while healthy and when he knew his time may be short. No one could have lived 5 years the way Scott did upon learning about his fatal illness: NO ONE. He had courage and he reached out to all us to let us know how precious we were and how precious life was. Our family, in his absence, will take care of one another and embrace life as he would want us to, all our days. WE LOVE YOU big brother …..friend, Dad, husband, son, doctor, patient, uncle, cousin, in law, outlaw (no he was never an outlaw)…but he sure had the BEST sense of humor…
I knew Scott when he was the Cytopathology fellow at Medical College of Virginia and I was a pathology resident in 1985. He was a wonderful person, very conscientious, very smart, and very funny. I loved working with him, and I was fortunate to be able to catch up with him at a CAP meeting in 2004. He is far too young to say goodbye to this world and his family, and I extend my heartfelt condolences to his loved ones.