Ruth Kerr Jakoby (born September 2, 1929) is an American neurosurgeon.

Biography

Ruth Kerr Jakoby was born on September 2, 1929, in Palo Alto, California. She completed medical school at the

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in 1956.Alan Siu, Christopher J Neal, Hasan R Syed, Daniel R Felbaum, M Nathan Nair, Kevin M McGrail, Anthony J Caputy, Donald C Shields; Creating a Culture of Collaboration: A Brief History of Academic Neurosurgery in Washington, DC, Neurosurgery, Volume 81, Issue 6, 1 December 2017, Pages 1029–1039, https://doi.org/10.1093/neuros/nyx187 She completed her residency through George Washington University in 1959.

Medical experience

Dr. Jakoby opened her own private practice in 1959."Ruth Kerr Jakoby, MD." Women In Neurosurgery (WINS), www.neurosurgerywins.org/doctor/dr-ruth-jakoby. Just two years after completing her residency, she became the first female Diplomate of the American Board of Neurological Surgery in 1961. In 1964, she would become a Fellow of the

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. Dr. Jakoby served as the Chief of the Spinal Cord Injury Service at the

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in Houston, Texas from 1977-1979. While serving as the Chief, she also taught at

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as an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery.

Beyond medicine

Through her experiences in medicine, Dr. Jakoby became increasingly interested in the legal issues related to the medical field. She attended Northern Virginia Law School, and she obtained her J.D. degree in 1986. In 1989 she went on to become the Dean of the

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. Dr. Jakoby primarily focuses on "antitrust issues and mergers of medical, legal and educational institutions."

Personal life

Her father Paul Francis Kerr was a mineralogist and member of the

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. Jakoby has two sons, Michael and Robert.

References

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