Robert Louis Yoerg
April 4, 1940-March 19, 2025
Atherton, California
Submitted by Elizabeth Yoerg Majoch

Robert Louis Yoerg, M.D., 84, passed away peacefully at home, on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 in Atherton, California.

Robert was born on April 4, 1940 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago with a degree in engineering in 1962 and a degree in medicine from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1967. He was elected to the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha in 1965. After a year’s internship at Washington University, St. Louis, he and his wife Sharon moved to Menlo Park in 1969 where he was a resident in Psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School.

He spent two years in Washington D.C. as an Executive Officer to the Director at the National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse where he also was a Clinical Instructor at Georgetown University Medical School.

He spent most of his professional career in private practice in Belmont, California. He was loved and respected by his patients, whose lives were forever changed for the better over his fifty-three years of practice in psychiatry. He continued to teach at Stanford Medical School as a Clinical Associate Professor and was a model for many residents.

He had a great appreciation and interest in all the arts, especially as a long term supporter of the San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Symphony, and board member of the Stanford Jazz Workshop. Dr. Yoerg was a curious and intrepid traveler. With his wife Sharon and daughter, Elizabeth, he traveled the world. Reading was a passion. In his own words “I lived a charmed life and would have done nothing differently. I am thankful for the life I lived and have no regrets.”

Dr. Yoerg will be remembered for his insightfulness, quiet strength and the beauty and selflessness of his life as well as for his devotion to his wife of 59 years, Sharon, their daughter, Elizabeth, granddaughter, Margot Majoch, and son-in-law, Andrew Majoch.

He is survived by his wife Sharon Yoerg, daughter Elizabeth Yoerg Majoch, son-in-law Andrew Majoch, and granddaughter Margot Majoch of San Francisco, sisters Kate Nelson of Seattle, WA and Susan Conover and her husband, John, of Golden, CO, as well as extended family in California, Michigan and Colorado.

He leaves behind a song that the rest of humanity continues… In that spirit, remembrances in his honor may be made to Stanford Jazz Workshop Scholarship Fund or the San Francisco Ballet School.