Ronald I. Apfelbaum, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Anne Peterson, 14 December 2011

Transcript (52 pages) of an interview by Anne Peterson with Ronald I. Apfelbaum, professor of neurosurgery at the University of Utah, on 14 December 2011. Part of the University Oral History Project, Everett Cooley Collection tape no. U-3050

Ronald Apfelbaum was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he stayed until leaving for college. He talks about growing up and going to school in Atlantic City. Ronald attended Cornell University for three years as an electrical engineering student. He then opted for early acceptance into medical school at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia. After finishing medical school Ronald took an internship in Chicago at Presbyterian St. Luke´s Hospital where he decided to go into neurosurgery. He did his residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx where he eventually became Associate Professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery. Ronald talks about his time as a captain in the US Air Force and his time in the New York Air National Guard. He was recruited to the University of Utah as a professor of surgery in 1986. Ronald discusses his career and his achievements while a surgeon at the University of Utah.