Dr. Maurice F. Rabb, Jr., 72
By Johnathon E. Briggs
Tribune staff reporter
Published June 9, 2005
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Dr. Rabb, 72, died of cancer Monday, June 6, in his Gold Coast home, with his wife by his side, one day after their 39th wedding anniversary.
Born in Shelbyville, Ky., Dr. Rabb was the only child of Dr. Maurice F. Rabb Sr., an anesthesiologist, and Jewel Miller Rabb, a teacher. Blacks were banned from attending the University of Louisville, so Dr. Rabb spent the first two years of college at Indiana University in Bloomington, before transferring to Louisville after the university was desegregated. He earned a biology degree and graduated from the university's medical school in 1958.
Dr. Rabb completed his ophthalmology residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago and became the first African-American chief resident there in 1963. His affiliation with UIC lasted 43 years, from resident to full professor of medicine.
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