Albert P. Rosen, M.D.

Albert P. Rosen, M.D., author of Health Hints for Hikers (1994, NY-NJ Trail Conference) and a long-time contributor to Trail Walker, died November 18, 2007 at age 90. Dr. Rosen was a beloved pediatrician in Fair Lawn, NJ. He received his medical degree from Downstate Medical School, State University of New York, in 1943, and was a founding physician of The Valley Hospital, where he served as director of pediatrics from 1958 to 1976 and president of the medical board in 1963. He received the hospital's inaugural Distinguished Physician Service Award in 1997.

Dr. Rosen was an avid hiker and mountain climber and a member of many hiking clubs, including the Adirondack Mountain Club 46’ers, American Alpine Club, Catskill 3500 Club, Northeast 111, and White Mountains 4,000-Footer Club. He hiked around the world, usually with his wife Shirley, who died in 2001; their summits included Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), Kala Patar (Nepal), Mt. Ararat (Turkey), and Grand Teton (Wyoming). An accident in 1986—he was hit by a car while riding his bicycle—ended Dr. Rosen’s bicycling and hiking activities, but not his interests in these areas, as evidenced by his continued writing for the Trail Conference on health and hiking topics.

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