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APS Bulletin • Volume 18, Number 2, 2008
In Memoriam
Dr. Hubert Rosomoff
Hu and Renee Rosomoff accepted the APS Clinical Centers of
Excellence in Pain Management Award in 2007 on behalf of the
The Rosomoff Comprehensive Pain and Rehabilitation Center. |
Longtime APS member and past president (1992–1993) Hubert L. Rosomoff, MD DMedSc, died on June 5, 2008, at the age of 81.
Dr. Rosomoff, founder of The Rosomoff Comprehensive Pain and Rehabilitation Center, devoted his career to freeing patients from pain—first as a neurosurgeon and then through rehabilitative therapies.
In a 2004 interview with the APS Bulletin, he called the noninterventional multidisciplinary approach to pain, of which he was a pioneer, the “hallmark of pain medicine.”
Dr. Rosomoff is widely recognized as a world authority on pain and its treatment. Among many accomplishments, he pioneered investigation of hypothermia for intracranial vascular surgery and developed techniques of cryosurgery. He also introduced several innovative surgical procedures for the spine.
In 1971, Dr. Rosomoff became professor and the first chair of the then new department of neurological surgery at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
In 1974, Dr. Rosomoff founded the University of Miami’s Comprehensive Pain and Rehabilitation Center (now the Rosomoff Comprehensive Pain and Rehabilitation Center). He served as its medical director, and his wife and longtime APS member Renee Rosomoff, MBA BSN CDMS CRC CRRN, serves as program director. In a 1996 oral history interview for the John C. Liebeskind History of Pain Collection, Dr. Rosomoff described the Center: “It’s a rehabilitation program in the truest sense of the meaning; it takes every single discipline and technique that could be valuable to the patient to increase their capacities physically and mentally to the highest that they can be brought.” In 2007, APS honored the Center as one of its first national Clinical Centers of Excellence in Pain Management.
During his career, Dr. Rosomoff was a leader in APS and many other professional organizations including the International Association for the Study of Pain, the Eastern Pain Association, the American Academy of Pain Medicine, and the Southern Pain Society.
APS extends its deepest sympathy to Renee Rosomoff and the Rosomoff family.
