Visiting with Dr. Ralph Heinz

M Castillo

doi:10.3174/ajnr.a2945

Abstract

On a lovely late summer afternoon, I walked 2 blocks up the hill from my house to see Dr. Ralph Heinz. Dr. Heinz lives in what is—at least in my opinion—the perfect professor's house in a college town. A well-tended lawn fronts a medium-sized house painted yellow-cream with brown shutters and an

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M.C.: Can you briefly tell me about your life before medicine, that is, growing up during the Great Depression and your involvement with basketball?
M.C.: You were present at the beginning of modern neuroradiology in the United States
Who and what was responsible for it? R.H.: I was deferred for the Korean War and, after graduation from the University of Pennsylvania, I was stationed at the USPHS Hospital in Staten Island—as a surgical resident— to pay back my service obligation

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M.C.: Can you briefly tell me about your life before medicine, that is, growing up during the Great Depression and your involvement with basketball?. He obtained an MD from the University of Pennsylvania, did his radiology residency at the Philadelphia General Hospital (no longer in existence), and was a fellow in neuroradiology with Dr Juan Taveras at the Neurologic Institute at Columbia University in New York City (1962– 64). A desire to do things with my hands, my love of diagnosis, and improvements in fluoroscopy, such as image amplifiers, led me to accept a 3-year residency in radiology back in Philadelphia.

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