In Memoriam

Daniel Manganaro

The whole of the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) family has been shocked and saddened by the sudden loss of Daniel S. Manganaro, a fourth-year medical student from LECOM. The 27-year-old scholar from Chemung County, New York died in a mid-April mishap while canoeing with a friend on Seneca Lake.

Daniel Manganaro was a respected and highly capable LECOM student. Word of his loss has affected the College deeply. He was an enthusiastic and energetic force, a compassionate medical scholar, and he possessed a clear passion for his calling. His absence leaves a vast hole in the fabric of the LECOM family.

Recently, Daniel had matched into an orthopedic residency and he was eager to begin the calling into which he had been envisioning since his earliest pronouncements as a first-year student. He was described by Richard Terry, DO, LECOM Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, as “an exceptionally competent, compassionate, and caring scholar with a true medical heart and spirit and an obvious zest for learning.” A noticeably anguished Dean Terry, offered abundant praise of his student, recalling Daniel’s passion to become an orthopedic surgeon as “evident from the start.”

The Manganaro family has long been a part of the LECOM family. Daniel’s brother, Mark, also a LECOM medical student, recently matched into a radiology residency and the brothers’ father, Stephen Manganaro, MD, is a founding faculty member of the Arnot Ogden Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Arnot Ogden Medical Center, a LECOM clinical campus since 2013.

The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine offers its deepest condolences to Daniel’s family and friends in the loss of a cherished scholar and colleague. LECOM remains grateful for the life of Daniel Manganaro. His is a legacy that will remain as a testament to those who seek to work for the betterment of others. May the light of his all too brief life bring a sense of hope and purpose to others as his mission lives on in that which he leaves behind.