Press Secretary James Brady after the Secretary was shot in the 1981 Reagan assassination attempt. During his chairmanship at NYU, he was also known as an early and strong advocate of wider stem cell treatments. In 1992, Dr. Ransohoff left New York University Hospital for Tampa, Florida, at the behest of the James A. Haley VA Hospital, which wanted to reform its neurosurgical department. Professionally he greatly improved the neurosurgical and spinal centers at the VA Hospital and Tampa General Hospital, and significantly added to the brain cancer research programs at Moffitt Cancer Center. Personal life and death In 1940, he married Dr. Rita Meyer, a psychotherapist who wrote Venus After 40, a book about men's responses to sexuality in older women; they divorced in December 1983. In April, 1984, he married Lori Cohen (born 1956), a dentist; they had a son born in 1989. Ransohoff died at his home on the morning of January 30, 2001 of natural causes. Legacy The book Brain Surgeon: An Intimate View of His World () by Lawrence Shainberg was based on his life. He also served as a consultant to the popular television series Ben Casey; some viewers familiar with Ransohoff feel that he and Casey have similar personalities. He was a cousin of director/producer Martin Ransohoff. References External links Deceased member profile from the Society of Neurological Surgeons webpage 1915 births 2001 deaths American neurosurgeons Harvard University alumni 20th-century surgeons United States Army personnel of World War II