Christopher J. Conners, 51, physician

Christopher J. Conners, 51, an attending physician in diagnostic radiology at Lankenau Hospital from June 1992 to March 2001, drowned Tuesday, July 3, in a boating accident off the Danish island of Mon.

Since 2009, he had been an attending physician in teleradiology service for NightHawk Radiology Services, with headquarters in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Dr. Conners worked for the firm most recently from its offices in Sydney, Australia, and Zurich, Switzerland, his sister, Anne, said.

"He had just left the Zurich office to take time for himself, to fulfill the dream of sailing," his sister said.

Dr. Conners had bought a 35-foot Sirius in Germany, she said, and "was set to sail the Baltics" after already sailing on short trips.

The Australian and Swiss offices of NightHawk "afforded him the opportunity to travel and at the same time continue with his profession."

Born in Bryn Mawr, Dr. Conners earned a bachelor's degree in premedical sciences, summa cum laude, at Lehigh University in 1981 and graduated from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1985.

He completed an internship in internal medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1986, a residency in diagnostic radiology at Cornell University Medical Center in New York City in 1990, and a fellowship in body imaging at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in 1991.

Dr. Conners was an attending physician for medical imaging at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City while an assistant professor of radiology at Cornell University Medical College in the 1991-92 academic year.

After working at Lankenau Hospital, he earned a master's degree in public health at Johns Hopkins University in 2002.

Dr. Conners added the public health studies to his other degrees, his sister said, because "he expressed an interest, if and when he returned to the U.S., in perhaps joining an organization" such as the Department of Veterans Affairs.

After Hopkins, he was an attending physician in the diagnostic radiology department at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown from 2002 to 2008, while he was a clinical assistant professor of radiology at the Penn State College of Medicine.

Besides his sister, Dr. Conners is survived by brothers Mark, Peter, and Jeffrey. Services were private.