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Deceased Member
Joseph Ransohoff, MD
Elected:
1966
Senior:
1975
President:
1975-1976
1915-2001
JOSEPH RANSOHOFF, II, was born July 1, 1915 in Cincinnati, Ohio to a medical family as both his grandfather and father being Professors of Surgery at the University of Cincinnati.
He was educated at Harvard University where he obtained a B.S. in 1938, and graduated from he University of Chicago with an M.D. in 1941.
He had his general surgery internship and residency 1941-1944 at the University of Cincinnati and then entered the U.S. Army where he remained from 1944-1946 where he served as a neurosurgeon (Army classification 3131C) until the termination of World War II. He then went to Montefiore Hospital in New York where he took Neurology and Neurosurgery under Dr. Houston Merritt and Dr. Leo Davidoff.
He was appointed to the Department of Neurosurgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and became Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the New York University Medical Center 1961 where he remained until 1992.
He moved to the University of South Florida where he was Director of Neurosurgery and Professor of Neurosurgery at the James A. Haley Veterans’ Administration Hospital and the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute.
He retired from active practice and was editing a book on malignant brain tumors with other members of the USF faculty, and organizing the monthly Journal Club given by the residents.
He belonged to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the American Academy of Neurological Surgery of which he was elected President and the Society of Neurological Surgeons of which he also served as President.
His major interests were in brain tumors, and resident training in neurosurgery. He had hobbies in boating and fishing.
He was originally married to Rita Ransohoff and they were divorced in 1984 after having two children. He remarried in 1984 to Dr. Lori C. Ransohoff and they had two children. Although they separated, they were on good terms.
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