Paul A. Lavietes

Dr. Paul Alan Lavietes, a longtime Atlantan and radiologist who practiced for decades at Crawford W. Long Hospital (now Emory University Hospital Midtown), passed away on May 28, 2025, at The Breman Center Jewish Home. He was 95 and had been quite healthy and active until the last month of his life. He leaves behind his beloved wife of nearly 69 years, Marilyn.

Born in Derby, Connecticut, on August 31, 1929, he was the third child and only son of Joshua and Mary Ginburg Lavietes. His mother immigrated to the United States as a child from Minsk in Belarus; his father was the ninth and only U.S.-born child of a family that immigrated from Kyiv, Ukraine.

Paul, his sisters Lucille and Rita, and his parents lived in Derby, Ansonia and New Haven, Connecticut, until moving to Atlanta in 1945.

He went to Boys High School in Atlanta, earning his diploma in 1946. He spent one year at the University of Georgia before transferring to Emory University, where he received his degree in 1951. He earned his MD at the Medical College of Georgia in 1955. He then interned at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, where he met Marilyn, who was a delivery-room nurse at the hospital. They married on July 1, 1956.

After finishing his internship, he entered the U.S. Army Medical Corps as a captain, serving in the Radiological Services in the Army hospital at Fort McPherson from 1957 to July 1959. He then entered a two-year residency at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.

Dr. Lavietes began his professional career at Crawford W. Long Hospital in 1961 and served as chief of the radiology department from 1973-1978 and as a president of the hospital’s medical staff. He was a member of the American College of Radiology, the Georgia Radiological Society, the Atlanta Radiological Society (where he served a term as president), and a number of other professional associations. He retired the day after his 68th birthday, on September 1, 1997.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by his son Stuart, his wife, Hiroko, and son, Noah; his daughter, Janet Molleur, her daughters Alexa Besser (Jason) and Emily Carlson (Chris), and granddaughter Margot Carlson; and his son David, his daughter, Madelyn, and son, Jeremy.

Paul will be remembered for his kindness, his love of family, and his sincere interest in others and the way he always placed their needs ahead of his own. He touched many lives and lived a happy one himself. He was a good man.

A graveside funeral service will be held at Crest Lawn Memorial Park on Friday, May 30, 2025, at 10:30 AM. 

The family will be accepting guests anytime after 1:00 PM on Saturday and Sunday at 3286 Northside Parkway NW, Unit 601, Atlanta, GA 30327.