Career
He developed and introduced a number of microsurgical techniques that improved the safety and effectiveness of neurosurgery, including the use of the surgical microscope in neurosurgery. He also designed many of the commonly used of microsurgical instruments, which bear his name. Rhoton was born in the 1932 in Parvin, Kentucky.
He received his medical and surgical training at Washington University in Saint Louis.
Rhoton worked as a staff surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. In 1972 he joined the University of Florida as a professor and Chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery.
In 2014 Rhoton was the director of the Neuro-Microanatomy Laboratory at the McKnight Brain Institute. Rhoton died in Gainesville, Florida on February 21, 2016 at the age of 83.
Rhoton has served as the President of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, the Society of Neurological Surgeons and the North American Skull Base Society.
