Services to Be Held Today for Dr. Kozak
Funeral services will be held today in Orange for Dr. Peter P. Kozak Jr., co-director of the pediatric allergy clinic at Childrens Hospital of Orange County. Kozak, 50, died of an apparent heart attack Monday night while driving.
A longtime Santa Ana resident, Kozak was the immediate past president of the Lung Assn. of Orange County and the founder and medical director of SCAMP, a 13-year-old residential camp for asthmatic children in the San Bernardino Mountains that is a model for programs nationwide.
Born in Derby, Conn., Kozak received his medical degree from St. Louis University School of Medicine in 1960. He served in the Navy from 1962 to 1964 after taking an internship in pediatrics at St. Louis University.
Kozak completed additional training in allergy and pediatric allergy and immunology at the University of Rochester and at UCLA Harbor General Hospital. In addition to being co-director at CHOC, he was also an associate clinical professor in pediatrics at UCLA and the author of more than 30 papers in the field of immunology and allergy.
He is survived by his wife, Betty Jean; a daughter, Jeanne Marie, and three sons, Peter Paul III, Thomas Joseph and Daniel Joseph. He also leaves two sisters, Joan Slaughter and Dolores Dunn, and two brothers, Joseph and Robert Kozak, all of Connecticut.
Funeral services will be at noon at St. Norbert’s Catholic Church, 300 E. Taft Ave., Orange.
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