John J. Cranley, Jr., MD
#4: 1980-1981
Dr. Cranley is Director Emeritus of the Department of Surgery at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati, and Director Emeritus of the John J. Cranley Vascular Laboratory of that hospital. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Surgery at the University of Cincinnati.
He received his A.B. (Honors) from Boston College in 1941 and his Medical Degree from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1944. After a surgical internship on the Fifth Surgical Service of Boston City Hospital, he served in the U.S. Navy, as medical officer of the animal research ship at the atom bomb tests in the South Pacific. He was appointed as a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School and Fellow in Vascular Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1949 to 1951. He became a Clinical Associate in Surgery at M.G.H. and Director of the Vascular Laboratory from 1951-1952. He then served as the Lucie Rawson Fellow in Vascular Surgery and Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of Cincinnati from 1952-1954. He was named Chief of the Section of Vascular Surgery at Good Samaritan Hospital in 1954, and Director of Surgery at that institution in 1961-1985.
He is a member of the American College of Surgeons, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the Central Surgical Association, and the Clinical Vascular Society. He was President of the Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society in 1980. He is an honorary member of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Past President of the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati. He was the first director of the Kachelmacher Memorial Vascular Clinic in Logan, Ohio. He is the founder of Cranley Surgical Associates. He is now retired from the University of Cincinnati.
Dr. Cranley has published over 150 articles in the surgical literature, four books, and over 60 book chapters and exhibits. The Fogarty embolectomy catheter was developed under his guidance, and he has pioneered in the field of noninvasive vascular testing. He developed the phleborrheograph for the functional diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis of the lower extremity. He and Helen, married 50 years in 1992, have eight children. Their son Robert is a vascular surgeon and a member of Cranley Surgical Associates.
After his retirement, he resided in Naples, Florida, until his death in September 2003. Dr. Cranley left a rich heritage in innovation throughout his career. His hobbies included music, golf, and bridge.
