Ronald J. Ross is a Cleveland, Ohio

radiologist Radiology ( ) is the medical discipline that uses medical imaging to diagnose diseases and guide their treatment, within the bodies of humans and other animals. It began with radiography (which is why its name has a root referring to radiat ...

known for research on brain injury in professional and amateur

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s and for the first clinical use of

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imaging (NMR later known as

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) on human patients. Ross is also credited with the first use of head and whole body computed tomography imaging (CT) in a private clinical setting in the United States.

Biography

Early life and education

Ross is one of three children born of Lithuanian and Russian immigrants. He grew up and attended school in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Ross earned his undergraduate degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1956 and received his medical degree from

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in 1960.

Career

After completing his internship and residency in radiology in Cleveland, Ross was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and Government of Sweden Award in 1964 to complete his fellowship studies in radiology at

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. In the mid-1970s, he opened the first U.S. based private diagnostic imaging center that featured a whole body CT scanner for clinical use. In 1981, he performed the world's first MRI clinical studies on patients. Ross's medical research includes brain damage in boxers and the MRI evaluation of diseases of the breast. Ross was as an abstractor for radiology journals. In 1983, his study of brain injuries in professional and amateur boxers was published by the Journal of the American Medical Association; the study drew global attention, stirred up controversy in the boxing world and spurred the

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to call for stricter medical supervision of the sport in the United States. In 1998, Ross was elected to the National

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Board of Trustees in Washington, D.C., and served as its national president from 1998 to 2000. Ross retired from the practice of medicine in 2000 after a career that spanned 40 years. He is currently the Director Emeritus of the Department of Radiology and Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Hillcrest Hospital- Cleveland Clinic Health System and serves on the Board of Directors and Board of Trustees of the

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Personal life

Ross is married to Helen Manas Ross and they have 3 grown children.

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ross, Ronald J. Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Physicians from Cleveland American radiologists Case Western Reserve University alumni Albert Einstein College of Medicine alumni