Background
Gross, Robert Edward was born on July 2, 1905 in Baltimore. Son of Charles Jacob and Emma (Houck) Gross.
Gross, Robert Edward was born on July 2, 1905 in Baltimore. Son of Charles Jacob and Emma (Houck) Gross.
AB, Carleton College, 1927. Doctor of Science (honorary), Carleton College, 1951. Doctor of Medicine, Harvard University, 1931.
House officer pathology, Children's Hospital, Boston, 1931;
surgery, Children's Hospital, Boston, 1932-1933;
resident surgery, Children's Hospital, Boston, 1937-1938;
senior member permanent staff, Children's Hospital, Boston, 1939-1972;
associate visiting surgeon, Children's Hospital, Boston, 1939-1946;
surgeon, Children's Hospital, Boston, 1936-1946;
surgeon-in-chief, Children's Hospital, Boston, 1947-1972;
chief cardiac program, Children's Hospital, Boston, 1966-1972;
house officer pathology, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1933-1934;
resident pathology, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1934-1935;
assistant resident surgery, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1935-1937;
George Gorham Peters Travelling fellow, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1937-1938;
resident surgeon, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1938-1939;
junior associate surgery, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1939-1940;
associate, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1940-1946;
senior associate, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 1946-1972;
instructor pathology medical school, Harvard, 1934-1936;
instructor surgery, Harvard, 1937-1939;
associate surgery, Harvard, 1939-1942;
assistant professor, Harvard, 1942-1947;
Ladd professor children's surgery, Harvard, 1947-1972. Consultant pediatric surgery Boston Lying-In Hospital. Associate surgical staff N.E. Baptist Hospital.
Courtesy staff Massachusetts Women's Hospital. Visiting surgeon, visiting surgeon to pediatric surgical service Massachusetts Memorial Hospital. Associate staff Faulkner Hospital, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
Consultant to surgical staff Framingham (Massachusetts) Union Hospital. Consultant staff Woonsocket (Rhode Island) Hospital. Courtesystaff surgery Newton (Massachusetts)-Wellesley Hospital.
Fellow American College of Surgeons, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Academy Pediatrics (executive board), National Research Council, American (science council, founders group), Northeast heart associations, American Association Pathologists and Bacteriologists, Massachusetts Medical Society, American Medical Association, Boston Medical History Club, Northeast Pediatric Society, American Association Thoracic Surgery, American Society Experimental Pathology, Society University Surgeons, Society Pediatric Research, Northeast, Boston surgical societies, Society Clinical Surgery, American Cancer Society, American Surgical Association, Society Vascular Surgery (vice president).
Married Mary Louise Orr, June 11, 1931. Children: Marcie Carol, Edith Orr.