Dr. Mark Rossberg, Johns Hopkins Anesthesiologist, Dies at 50

Mark I. Rossberg, MD, a pediatric anesthesiologist at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died Thursday of prostate cancer at age 50, according to a Baltimore Sun report.

Dr. Rossberg earned his undergraduate and medical degrees in 1987, after completing a combined seven-year program at City College of New York and Mount Sinai School of Medicine in Manhattan. He decided to combine his interest in pediatrics and anesthesiology and become a pediatric anesthesiologist.  

Dr. Rossberg completed residencies in pediatrics and anesthesiology at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, followed by a fellowship in pediatric anesthesia and critical care medicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He arrived at Hopkins in the mid-1990s.

His research interests included pediatric transplant anesthesia, anesthesia for children with congenital heart disease and mechanisms of neurological protection and fiberoptic intubation.

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