1940s - Frelick

Robert W. Frelick, M.D. ’44, of Wilmington, Del., liaison to the National Cancer Advisory Board for the Association of Community Cancer Centers, received the Christiana Care Health System’s annual commendation for excellence in October. The award recognizes a current or former member of the medical-dental staff of Christiana, Delaware’s largest health care provider, for outstanding clinical care and compassion and for distinguished achievement in education, research, community service or leadership. Frelick, a medical oncologist since the specialty’s earliest days, was honored for more than five decades of service and leadership. Frelick and his wife, Jane, met while he was in medical school and she was a nursing student at Yale.