John Robert Cobb

John Robert Cobb (* 1903, † March 24, 1967 ) was an American surgeon and orthopedic surgeon, known by the Cobb angle for the classification of spinal deformities.

Training

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City, he attended the Staunton Military Academy in Virginia and hired 16 years on a merchant ship. In 1925 he completed his studies in English Literature at Brown University in Providence with a Bachelor of Arts. He decided to study medicine, and spent a year at Harvard to prepare for study at Yale Medical School, he 1930 with the MD (Doctor of Medicine ) graduated. Subsequently he worked for a year as a medical resident and a year in the orthopedic surgery at the New Haven Hospital. In 1936 he obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Columbia University in New York City.

Work

From 1934 he worked at the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled, today Hospital for Special Surgery ( Surgical Hospital ) New York City, where he built a scoliosis clinic. At that time little was known about scoliosis and its cause and there was no effective treatment. Cobb experimented with various methods of treatment and concluded that the best method is the use of a plaster corsets in combination with spinal fusion. But he also realized that only about 10% of patients requiring such surgery with scoliosis. To assess the severity of the spinal deformity, he determined the angle of curvature. This method was later called the Cobb angle.

John Robert Cobb died on 24 March 1967.

Activities

  • Post-doctoral fellow of the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital
  • Post-doctoral researcher at Seaview Hospital on Staten Iceland
  • Assistant visiting orthopedist at the Willard Parker Hospital
  • Advisor to the line
  • Employees of the New York Academy of Medicine

Memberships

  • American Medical Writers Association
  • Association of American Medical Colleges
  • American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
  • American Medical Association
  • American Geriatrics Society
  • President of the Alumni Association of the Hospital for Special Surgery
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