From the time he was 10 years old, 70 years ago, he learned to play the piano. He has performed annually at the Doctors Piano Concerts at the Steinway Piano Gallery in Boca Raton in 2005, 2006 and 2007 where he plays popular favorites such as Embraceable You, and Body and Soul as well as classical numbers including Chopin Nocturne in E Flat Major Opus 9. You get the idea—he plays it all!

Throughout his entire 45 year career as a doctor Kaitz devoted himself to help and heal his patients. His hobby during those years was horticulture, specializing in raising orchids in his own greenhouse. Upon retiring in November 1999 he maintains residences in Massachusetts and Delray Beach.


Imagine his surprise and pleasure when the American Orchid Society’s Visitors Center and Botanical Gardens opened off Jog Road in Delray in 2000. He volunteered his services and they quickly gave him a job as a weeder. When Alan began taking pictures of the orchids and designing “What’s In Bloom” posters for the Orchid Society (where he is known as “Mr. Technology”), he didn’t have to weed anymore. He also created a website which provides a virtual tour of the Orchid Society facility.

Alan, slightly built at 5’ 6 ½”, weighing 134 lbs., is a native of Chelsea, MA. After graduating from Chelsea High School he entered Harvard College. At the end of his freshman year he enlisted in the Army. Returning from service after VJ Day, with the aid of the GI Bill he resumed his education at Harvard, graduated from there and then Harvard Medical School, specializing in internal medicine and geriatrics.

He became Chief of Medicine at Chelsea Memorial Hospital and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. When Chelsea Memorial Hospital closed in 1978 he practiced in Revere, MA. until 1993. He went on to work at the Rehabilitation Hospital in Woburn until retirement, where he cared for many former high school classmates and their parents.

Alan and his wife Marlene raised two daughters and a son. One daughter is a CPA, the other a physical therapist. Their son followed in Dad’s footsteps, attending Harvard Medical School and becoming a primary care physician in Concord, N.H. The couple enjoys nine grandchildren. Alan and Marlene plan to spend more time with their children’s families who live in Andover MA., North Andover, MA. and Concord, N.H.

Dr. Alan enjoys reading biographies when he’s not practicing playing his piano, caring for his orchids, or working in his spacious home office where he uses two computers, a desktop, and a laptop, two printers, a copy machine and scanner. He also takes beautiful orchid pictures with his Sony digital camera.

Healer, piano artist, photographer, ex weeder and loving family man. That’s Dr. Alan Kaitz, the modern Renaissance man.

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