Max Gomez, an award-winning medical and science journalist who delivered informed reports for more than 40 years on TV stations in New York and Philadelphia, most recently during the COVID-19 pandemic, died on Sept. 2 at his home in Manhattan. He was 72.
His partner, Amy Levin, said the cause was head and neck cancer, with which he had been diagnosed four years ago.
Billed as “Dr. Max,” he brought an easygoing gravitas to reporting on subjects like vaccinations, knee replacements, prostate cancer, colonoscopies, sickle cell anemia and, when he himself contracted them, Lyme disease and the MRSA infection. One of his reports on Alzheimer’s disease focused on his father, a physician, who was swindled as his memory abandoned him.
