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Surgeon, scholar, humanist, medical researcher and prolific author, Leon Morgenstern (July 15, 1919 – December 23, 2012) was born in Pittsburgh. He earned his medical degree from NYU College of Medicine, then served two years with the U.S. Army Medical Corps before completing surgical training at Queens General Hospital. He moved to Los Angeles in 1952, where he became the inaugural Chairman for Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, a post he held until 1988.