Peter Zanca
Peter Zanca October 29, 1908, New York City July 31, 1976, San Antonio, Texas was an American physician who served as a doctor in the US Army foryears, achieving the rank of Colonel, and then served as Professor and founding Chairman of the Department of Radiology for the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio. Zanca married Helen F. Allen of Roanoke, Virginia in 1938. They had three sons, Joseph H., Peter A., and William S. Zanca. Mrs. Zanca died of leukemia in 1947. Zanca later married Margaret Quaid in 1949 and had two sons, John E. and David G. Zanca.
Zanca was born as the third of seven children to Italian immigrants, Joseph and Josephine Zanca. He grew up in Little Italy in New York City and graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School. After high school, he attended Washington Square Community College, NYU, 19271929 and Long Island University, 19291931, where he excelled in a premedical study. In 1931, he attended the Medical School at the University of Rome in Italy. In 1935, he returned to the United States and began his 41year medical career. He interned at St. Josephs Hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 19361937 and served as a resident of radiation therapy at the American Oncologic Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 193637. He joined the US Army Medical Corp in 1938.
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