University Times

A memorial service was held Nov. 27 for Kenneth Scott McCarty, a faculty member in pathology and medicine. McCarty, 62,  died Oct. 15, 2010, of cancer.

McCarty graduated from Duke University and Duke University Medical School and later practiced at Duke as a faculty member in internal medicine/endocrinology and pathology.

McCarty was hired here in December 1992 as a professor of pathology with a secondary appointment in medicine; in 2003 he transferred departments with a primary appointment in medicine and secondary appointment in pathology.

He was a former assistant dean for graduate medical education and former chair of the graduate medical education committee in the Pitt medical school.

He retained his tenured position at Pitt’s medical school but lost his clinical privileges as a pathologist at Magee-Womens Hospital after filing a lawsuit in 2004 alleging that errors at the hospital led to mislabeling of laboratory tests and misidentification of patients. He claimed hospital officials threatened and intimidated doctors who raised concerns about the matter.

He is survived by his wife, otolaryngology faculty member Berrylin J. Ferguson, and children Scott, Justin, Berryhill, Winston and Merriweather.

The family requested memorial gifts be made to organizations “investigating rare diseases or the ethical care of patients.”