Milton M. Heskel | Endocrinologist, 84

Milton M. Heskel, 84, of Abington, an endocrinologist, died of renal failure Tuesday at Albert Einstein Medical Center at Elkins Park.

An Overbrook High School graduate, he attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from its medical school in 1948.

In 1949 and 1950, his wife, Helene, said, Dr. Heskel was a physician for coal-mining companies in Lookout, Ky., and Montgomery, W. Va.

In 1951 and 1952, she said, he was an Air Force flight surgeon stationed in Florida and Texas.

While completing his residency in endocrinology and diabetes at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., he earned a master's degree in endocrinology at the University of Minnesota in 1955.

In 1956, Dr. Heskel set up his medical practice in the Olney neighborhood of Philadelphia, and from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, his daughter Julia said, he was chief of endocrinology at what is now Albert Einstein Medical Center.

He maintained a private practice in endocrinology and diabetes, which he moved to Elkins Park in 1982, where he practiced until last month.

Besides his wife and daughter, Dr. Heskel is survived by sons Dennis, Neil, and Mitchell; a sister; and five grandchildren.

The funeral is at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Goldsteins' Rosenberg's Raphael-Sacks, 310 Second Street Pike, Southampton, with burial in Montefiore Cemetery in Jenkintown.