Education
Born in Latvia, Nagobads was educated at University of Tübingen in Germany, before immigrating to the United States in 1951, where he began his surgical residency at the University of Minnesota.
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Nagobads took a position with the Golden Gophers hockey program in 1958, where he met Herb Brooks, the eventual coach of the Gophers and the 1980 United States team, who was playing for the university at the time. He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame as an individual in 2010 and as part of the 1980 United States team, which was inducted en masse in 2003. In the 2004 film, Miracle Nagobads was portrayed by actor Kenneth Welsh.
He. wrote a book on his lifetime of experienced in the sports medicine world, "Gold, Silver, and Bronze: A Doctor"s Devotion to American Hockey" was published December 1, 2014.
Doctor Nagobads was chosen to serve as Ambassador for Children for the Kids First Fund on November 17, 2015 in honor of his work helping young people, for providing them with a safe environment, and for his passionate and tireless work as an advocate for Latvia.
