Ann Douglas Mcfarlane Proctor

Ann Douglas Mcfarlane Proctor passed away at her home on Wednesday December 31, 2025. She was born on June 26,1944 in Washington D.C. to Margaret Kathryn Gets Mcfarlane of Baltimore, MD and Douglas James Mcfarlane, Capt., USN of Delavan, WI.
Ann attended The Sidwell Friends School, Bethesda Chevy Chase High and Catalina High Tucson, AZ where she was a rodeo queen and a debutante presented at the Tucson Symphony Ball in 1961.
   After attending Goucher College, she majored in biology and completed her premedical studies at Boston University. Obtaining her medical doctorate degree in 1970 from the Medical College of Virginia, she graduated receiving the Janet M. Glasgow award for First in Class.
She was the first female student to be accepted into an Internal medicine internship at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. She completed her anatomic pathology residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and her clinical pathology residency at Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs and Mercy Hospital in Denver.
After her board-certification in both anatomic and clinical pathology, she graduated from the Denver University College of Law receiving her J.D.- degree in 1981. She became interested in aeromedical law and served as a consultant to an aviation law firm in Denver.
As Medical Director of ambulatory care for faculty, students and hospital staff at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, she had faculty appointments in Preventive and Family Medicine.
Because of her love of the Rocky Mountains, Ann moved to Aspen where she opened a solo general practice serving the general public, the Aspen Ski Company, the Aspen School Board and the Roaring Fork Transit Authority for nearly a decade. During this period, she also established a medico-legal consulting firm, Pitkin Professional Associates.
Because of her interest in practicing in underserved and rural areas, she undertook interim positions as a medical director in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and West Virginia.
For many years, her M.D., J.D. colleagues attempted to recruit her from Aspen to join a twelve member panel of medico-legal case analysts in the Dept. of Defense in Washington D.C. In 1996, she joined their mission defending military physicians against civilian lawsuits.
Ann and Robert Whitaker Proctor were married in Chatham, MA in 2003 and had many wonderful years together until he passed in 2014.
Ann was a member of several professional societies and was also a member of the DAR and Order of the Eastern Star.
Her many interests included: ballet dancing at the Washington School of Ballet, modeling, piano and flute lessons, equestrianship: hunter-jumper and dressage, hiking and mountaineering, downhill and cross country skiing, snowshoeing, fly fishing and fly-tying, sailing, scuba diving and snorkeling, log building, motorcycling, watercolor and oil painting, fiber arts: knitting and spinning, pottery, culinary arts and travel.
Ann’s life was not defined by her academic and professional achievements alone. Ann lived a complete life. Whether she was motorcycling throughout the mountains of the American West or traveling throughout Europe, she always had a presence and impact on anyone who had the pleasure of meeting her.
She engaged herself to friends and strangers. Last June Ann celebrated her 80th birthday. The love she gave to so many of her friends was repaid to her in their presence and tribute to her on her birthday.
Ann will be missed. But the memories she provided for us will remain forever.