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Kenneth M. Rosen, M.D.
1937 - 1982
Kenneth M. Rosen was born in New York City on March 18, 1937. He attended the Bronx High School of Science and received a B.A. from New York University.
After his medical education at the Chicago Medical School, he was an intern at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Following a stint at the US Air Force Hospital, he completed internal medicine training at Cincinnati General Hospital and Mount Sinai.
He went on to be a cardiology resident at Mount Sinai, chief resident, and then instructor in medicine. In 1968, he joined the US Public Health Services Hospital in Staten Island as a research associate. This setting, under the leadership of Dr. Anthony Damato, fueled much of the creative work and early growth in the field of cardiac electrophysiology. There, Dr. Rosen coauthored seven papers in 1 year. He came to Cook County Hospital in 1969 and joined the faculty of the University of Illinois.
In 1972, he became chief of cardiology section at the Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine, University of Illinois. At one point, he was offered a Chief of Cardiology position at Harvard by Dr. Eugene Braunwald. Rosen died suddenly on March 16, 1982, in Vail, CO, where he was attending a cardiac arrhythmia meeting.