March 1, 1954 - January 15, 2019

It is with deep sadness that we share that former Board of Directors member Dr. Thomas Lansdale passed away Tuesday, January 15 in Bethesda, Maryland.

A memorial service is planned at Tom’s high school alma mater in Pennsylvania on Saturday, February 9, 2019.

We remember Dr. Lansdale for his considerable contributions to our work and mission as a founding member of the Physician’s Advocacy Program Advisory Committee in the 1990s, Board member from 2008 to 2018, past Chair of the Program & Performance Improvement Committee (2009-2015), member of two Strategic Planning Committees (2012 and 2017), past Chair of the Board of Directors (2016 and 2017), and Chair of the Governance Committee (2018). He helped us navigate an evolving health care landscape and guided our evolution toward more integrated care delivery with calm presence, dry wit, and deep humanity. He made the world better than he found it.

See below the message from his brother and daughter posted on the Caring Bridge website. 

Dear All,

Our dear brother, Tom, son of Pat, father to Olivia, mentor, physician, and devoted friend to so many, passed away peacefully early this morning.  

Our family cannot thank you all enough for the love and support, the visits, and the well wishes that you expressed to him and to us on this forum and off. We are indebted to his doctors: Michele DeMusis, Helen Gordon, Jim Porterfield, and Jim Wolf.  During the course of this journey, Tom wished never to be left alone. To that end we would have been lost without his extraordinary caregiver, Fatima Diakite and her flock of angels as well as his dear friends Paul, John and Robyn, Kremena, Howard, Maggie, MJ, Delbert and Gina, Molly, Karen, Matt, Helen and Bill, Jeff and Cathy, and Peter who became our extended family members these past few weeks.

A service to celebrate his life will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 9th in the chapel at his high school alma mater, Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. The family will host a luncheon reception after the service at Keil Hall (also on campus). Following the reception the family will have a private interment to spread his ashes in the garden behind the chapel and lay a plaque in his memory:

Thomas F. Lansdale, III MD 
March 1 1954 - January 15 2019
Mercersburg Class of 1972
A good man and a life well lived.

We have also elected to create a scholarship in his name, for which contributions may be made to:

The Mercersburg Academy 
300 East Seminary Street
Mercersburg, PA 17236

We also welcome you to donate to the organization he loved, and whose board he chaired in recent years:

Healthcare For The Homeless 
421 Fallsway
Baltimore, MD 21202

We look forward to seeing you in February. 

With gratitude,

Olivia Lansdale
Page Lansdale