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Military doctor from New Jersey killed in Iraq
by Sharon Adarlo/The Star-Ledger
A Philadelphia trauma surgeon who lived in South Jersey was killed Christmas 
Day in Iraq, where he was serving in an Army reserve medical unit.

Dr. John P. Pryor, a 42-year-old Moorestown resident, was killed Christmas 
morning in his sleeping quarters when a mortar round struck his trailer in 
Mosul, according to the Department of Defense. His brother, Richard, said Pryor had 
gone back to his trailer after a holiday Mass and was probably sleeping. He 
was killed instantly.
Pryor was serving his second tour of duty as a major with a forward surgical 
team with the Army's 1st Medical Detachment, based in Fort Totten, N.Y., and 
had arrived in Iraq just a week ago, his brother said. Pryor had previously 
served two years ago at a combat support hospital in Abu Ghraib.  
After the 9/11 attacks, Pryor decided to enlist in the Army reserves because 
he thought his skills as a trauma surgeon would be valuable, Richard Pryor 
said.  
"He was a surgeon who just gave 100 percent commitment to his career," the 
brother said. "He was always working, trying to be the best surgeon he could. He 
helped perfect strangers who required emergency care, victims of trauma. He 
was also a compassionate, loving, doting father."  
Pryor is survived by his wife, Carmela Calvo Pryor, and three children, 
Danielle, 10; Frankie, 8, and 4-year-old John Jr.  
The family learned of his death on Christmas night after Army officials 
tracked down his wife, who was visiting friends and family in Brooklyn, N.Y., and 
his parents, Victoria and Richard Pryor, who were in Saint Lucie, Fla.  
After growing up in Clifton, N.Y., Pryor completed medical school and surgery 
residency at the State University of New York at Buffalo, according to this 
brother. He then did training in trauma surgery and critical care at the 
University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.  
He was the director for the Trauma Center at the University of Pennsylvania, 
and the school's Office of Life Support education for the Division of Trauma. 
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