Dr. Alan Jay Greenfield

age 70, of Boston, Plymouth, & Palm Springs, on October 9, 2014. Distinguished interventional radiologist at MA General Hospital. Survived by his beloved husband, G.P. Paul Kowal; his devoted children, Jessica Anne Greenfield and Eliot Seth Greenfield and their mother Harriet Rosenburg Greenfield; his cherished grandchildren, Hannah Isabel Hummel, Theo Asa Hummel, Tavi Dante Greenfield, and Emilia Violet Greenfield; and his loving sister, Donna Greenfield Belser.  Dear son of the late Morton Gross Greenfield and Pearl Claire (Teich) Greenfield and brother of the late Minda Greenfield Brewster. Alan was born and raised in Highland Park, NJ where he graduated from Lafayette Elementary School and Highland Park High School.  He went on to study and graduate from Rutgers University where he pledged to the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity. He earned his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.  Alan practiced for many years in Boston at MA General Hospital, Boston City Hospital, Boston University Hospital, Tufts New England Medical Center, and finally returning to MA General Hospital from which he retired in 2013.  He was an accomplished choral singer since his college days, performing with a variety of groups including the Rutgers College Glee Club, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, New York and Boston Gay Men’s Choruses, Chorus pro Musica, the Handel & Haydn Society, and the New World Chorale. A celebration of Alan’s life will be held at Temple Israel, 477 Longwood Ave., Boston (parking on the Riverway), on Sunday, November 23, 2014 at 1:30 pm.  Memorial observance will be held at the home of Dr. Alan Greenfield and Paul Kowal on Monday (today), October 13, 2014, from 2-8 pm. (another memorial observance will be held in November and will be announced). If you wish to make a contribution in his memory, please send it to the MGH Division of Nephrology Renal Unit Research Fund, Bigelow 1008, 55 Fruit St., Boston 02114. This fund supports young investigators in the renal division at MGH, who find it hard to get funding for their projects via the regular pipeline. Alan loved teaching the future radiologists at MGH, BU Medical Center, and Tufts New England Medical School, and often drew undecided students into radiology by virtue of his enthusiasm for the field.