Having qualified as a doctor, Sandor Rado met Sigmund Freud in 1915 and decided to become a psychoanalyst.
In the United States, he was instrumental in the relatively fraught creation of "the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, painfully wrested from the New York Psychoanalytic in 1944 by Sandor Rado, in a savage schism."[REF]