Klaus Schreiber

Klaus Schreiber, MD PhD of Tuxedo Park, NY passed away on Friday, April 28 after a prolonged illness. He was born on June 13, 1937 to Dr. Karl and Marie Louise Schreiber in Teplitz, Czechoslovakia. The family was forced to flee to Vienna, Austria in 1944 during the Russian occupation of his native country. While living there, he became a Vienna choir boy where he developed his lifelong passion for classical music and then continued his education at the University of Vienna, Medical School. After medical school graduation and while practicing medicine and pathology in Vienna, he was encouraged to move to the United States for further training. In 1965 he began that training in anatomic pathology at the Francis Delafield Hospital of Columbia University and then as a cytology fellow in Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center under the direction of Leopold Koss, MD one of the founding fathers of the then developing field of Cytology. He followed Dr. Koss to Montefiore Medical Center, where together they published extensively on this subject. There he was named Director of Cytopathology with a teaching appointment as a Professor of Cytopathology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine where he would instruct generations of residents and pathologists.

Upon retirement from the College, he became Emeritus Professor of Pathology and 2 years ago was named an Adjunct Professor of Pathology at the MT Sinai School of Medicine.
After his retirement, he started lecturing internationally and was also asked to assist in the development of instrumentation for automated reading and grading of papsmears. This led to his involvement in a private laboratory to develop cytologic examinations of the oral mucosa and upper gastrointestinal tract while using computer assistance. He was a leader in this nascent field of oral and GI cytology, again training many pathologists and providing care to and saving the lives of patients with diseases of these areas who had little other means of early detection. He participated, until his illness, in developing a cytologic AI detection method of pre-neoplastic and neoplastic diseases of the esophagus at that laboratory.
Apart from his keen intellect, scientific rigor, and devotion to medicine, he was, above all else, esteemed by his many students and colleagues as a stellar teacher, career mentor, an excellent diagnostician and an elegant gentleman.

He was also a kind and gentle soul, who had deep love for his family, his friends, and his colleagues. He will be greatly missed by all who had the privilege of knowing him.

He leaves behind his beloved wife Joelle Patricia Schreiber, his daughter Barbara and her husband George Parnell, his daughter Ursula Schreiber, his son Nikolai Schreiber, and his granddaughters, AnnaMaria Schreiber and Katharine Parnell.

Funeral Services are private. Arrangements by Marrocco Memorial Chapel - 470 Colfax Avenue, Clifton.