Chien S. Su, MD
1923 - 2003
SBCMS was recently notified that retired member Chien Sheng Su, M.D. has passed away (date unknown). Dr. Su practiced general and thoracic-cardiovascular surgery in Victorville from 1974 to 1994.

A native of Amoy, China, Dr. Su attended the University of Philippines where he received his medical degree in April 1952. He took his internship at Philippine General Hospital in Manila 1951-1952 and was Assistant Professor of surgery at Cebu Institute of Medicine, Cebu City, Philippines, 1964-1970. He came to the United States in 1953 for his surgical residency at Maryland General Hospital in Baltimore and completed a postgraduate fellowship in surgery at the Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, in 1959. Dr. Su then returned to Cebu City where he practiced until 1970. A thoracic and cardiovascular residency at Nassau Hospital, Mineola, New York brought him back to the U.S. in 1971 and he practiced in Baltimore, Maryland from 1972 to1974. He was board certified.

Dr. Su established his practice in Victorville and joined the Medical Society in 1974. He retired in 1994. Survivors include his wife, Corazon Dy Su, M.D.

M. Ned Estridge, MD
1919 - 2003
Retired San Bernardino Neurosurgeon M. Ned Estridge, M.D. died September 23, 2003 of complications of a heart attack at Community Hospital of San Bernardino. He was a member of SBCMS and CMA for 42 years.

Dr. Estridge was a native of Lancaster, South Carolina and graduated in medicine from the Medical College of South Carolina School of Medicine, Charleston in 1944. Dr. Estridge served an internship at Metropolitan Hospital, New York 1944-1945 and residencies at the V.A. Hospital in Los Angeles, the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, and the University of London, National Hospital Queen Square. He was board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery in 1953. Dr. Estridge served in the U.S. Navy from 1945-1946 and 1953-1954. It was the need of a doctor with his training and expertise in neurosurgery that brought him to San Bernardino in 1951.

Dr. Estridge was the first permanent neurosurgeon in the Inland Empire. He established the first neurosurgery intensive care unit at St. Bernardine Medical Center and was Assistant Clinical Professor at Loma Linda University. It is said that no matter how busy, he was generous with his time for his patients, and often without compensation. He retired in 1988, spent time with his family and authored a book about the Rolls-Royce Phantom III automobile.

Survivors include his wife, Inge Estridge of San Bernardino, a son and two daughters, five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Change of Status
The Medical Society's Board of Directors approved the request received from Doctor Wilson D. Lao for a reinstatement of his membership.

The Board of Directors also granted the requests received from the following physicians for retired status of membership:

Nillawan Chaya, MD
Fong Wen Chen, MD
Paul R. Ennis, MD
Catalina C. Lim, MD
Robert Z. Zappia, MD