Peter LaMotte [SEP] date of death
Peter LaMotte
Peter LaMotte (1929–2007) was a physician. LaMotte served as the first team physician of the New York Mets baseball team from their founding until 1974. He also founded Hilton Head Hospital on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
Early life and education.
LaMotte was born to Louis LaMotte, Jr. and Lois LaMotte in Manhattan in 1929. During his childhood, he contracted polio. LaMotte later raced Stearman model 75 biplanes as a teenager. After graduating from the Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland, he
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Hilton Head Hospital.
Louis LaMotte and his wife Lois (Gubelman) helped their son Peter to found Hilton Head Hospital on Hilton Head Island. They served as the largest financial benefactors of the hospital when it opened during the 1970s. The LaMotte Building at Hilton Head Hospital now bears their name.
Peter LaMotte served as chief of trauma surgery and chief of orthopedic surgery at Roosevelt Hospital (now Mount Sinai Roosevelt) in Manhattan. He also served