Charles David Spivak (December 25, 1861 - October 16, 1927) was a Russian-born American medical doctor, community leader, and writer.
He studied medicine at Jefferson Medical School from 1887 to 1890 and later married a fellow Russian-Jewish immigrant, Jeannie Charsky, in 1893.
[5] Spivak practiced medicine in Denver and, in 1904, he became one of the founders of the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society (JCRS) tuberculosis sanatorium.
The campus of the JCRS hospital which Spivak became the American Medical Center in 1954 and is now the home of the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design.
His will stated that his skeleton should be donated to science and the rest of his remains should be buried with patients: “That my body be embalmed and shipped to the nearest medical college for an equal number of non-Jewish and Jewish students to carefully dissect.