Abstract
American neurology lost one of its most prominent and vocal spokesmen for bioethics when Dr. Ronald E. Cranford died of metastatic renal carcinoma on May 31, 2006, at age 65 years. Ron was much in the national news throughout 2005 as an expert witness in the sensationalized and tragic case of Teresa Schiavo, but this public role culminated his long history of involvement and advocacy in other precedent-setting medicolegal cases. More than any other neurologist, he helped to catalyze the recognition that it could be ethically acceptable for physicians to discontinue life-sustaining therapy on neurologic patients with impaired consciousness. Ron was born in Peoria, Illinois, where he developed a lifelong love of golf. He attended the University of Illinois on an Evans Scholarship awarded to promising golf caddies, and the University of Illinois College of Medicine from which he was graduated in 1965. After internship at Presbyterian-St. Lukes Hospital, he served in the US Air …
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