Santo Domingo is home to a pair of posh Marriott properties, the Renaissance Santo Domingo Jaragua Hotel & Casino and the JW Marriott Hotel Santo Domingo.
April 7, 2021
IIra Wexler, 84, passed peacefully in his sleep from pancreatic cancer a year ago, April 1, 2020. He was a wonderful husband, father, grandfather and friend. Ira’s wry wit and profound intellect were legendary. His family also loved him for his generosity and his modesty.
Although he never introduced himself as “Dr. Wexler,” Ira was a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, where he obtained his MD and his PhD in physiology. He published on renal blood flow, conducted research at Yale University and at the Karolinska Institutet, in Stockholm, Sweden. He spent the bulk of his career in private practice, in neurology.