Robert G. Grossman, M.D.

Robert G. Grossman, M.D. is professor and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, and chief of neurosurgery at Methodist Hospital and St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital. A native of New York City, Grossman received his medical degree in 1957 from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He took his surgical internship at Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester and served in the U.S. Army at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, D.C. His postgraduate training was at the Neurological Institute of New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University. Grossman has held academic appointments at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and Parkland Hospital in Dallas, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he was chief of neurosurgery. Grossman and Dr. Kemp Clark were the two neurosurgeons at Parkland Hospital who examined President Kennedy in Trauma Room #1. He was not asked to testify before either the Warren Commission or the House Select Committee on Assassinations.