Mary Silverman Ravin

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SCARBOROUGH, MAINE – Mary Silverman Ravin died at the Maine Veteran’s Home Nov. 17. She was born in Providence to the late Jeanette (Schonfeld) and John Silverman and graduated from Classical High School and the University of Rhode Island with a bachelor of science degree.

She joined the Navy as a Pharmacist’s Mate First Class stationed in Chicago and was transferred to the tropical diseases laboratory at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. The GI bill allowed her to attend Tufts Medical School and she was the first female house officer in Medicine at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Later she pursued Emergency Medicine and became Director of Emergency Services at Sinai Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, for 10 years before opening a private practice in New Seabury, Massachusetts.

She was predeceased by her brother, Eugene Silverman and her husband, Herbert Ravin, M.D. Her three children, Bart Ravin of Hampton New Hampshire, Daniel Ravin D.M.D. of Scarborough, Maine, and Paula Ravin Rothschild M.D. of Wayland, Massachusetts shared special memories with extended family at a memorial at the National Cemetery in Bourne, Massachusetts. Donations in her memory can be made to the Mary A. Ravin endowed scholarship at the University of Rhode Island, attention James Roehm of the URI Foundation.