Birth name Stanley Robert Spiro Years active 1943–2011 | Name Stanley Spiro Died October 6, 2011 | |
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Born May 27, 1919 ( 1919-05-27 ) Origin Brooklyn, New York, USA Occupation(s) Dentist, anesthesiologist, bandleader | ||
Stanley Spiro (May 27, 1919 – October 6, 2011) was a dentist and anesthesiologist, and musician.
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Biography
Stanley Robert Spiro was born on May 27, 1919 in Brooklyn, New York, son of David and Rose (Meyer). He was awarded his A.B. undergraduate degree at Brooklyn College in 1940, and received his D.D.S. at Temple University in 1943. He was also a member of professional fraternity Sigma Epsilon Delta.
He served in World War II, as Captain of Dental Corp 1257th Combat Engineering Battalion, U.S. Army European Theater of Operations from 1943 through 1946.
Professional career
From 1948 to 1951, he was appointed to the Department of Anesthesiology, Queens General Hospital, Jamaica, New York as a three-year resident-trainee; he then held the position of Associate Professor of Dental Surgery (Anesthesiology) at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, and Chief of the Section of Anesthesiology, Department of Dentistry at The Bronx Municipal Hospital, Chief of Anesthesiology Service at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical in Brooklyn, and Chief of the Section of Anesthesiology, Division of Handicapped Patients, Lutheran Hospital, Brooklyn, New York.
He established his private practice in New York City, and later at Hempstead Medical Center on Long Island, New York.
Spiro was a member of the American Dental Association, American Dental Society of Anesthesiology, International Anesthesia Research Society. Dr. Spiro was a frequent contributor to professional journals as well as authoring two books, Amnesia-Analgesia, Techniques in Dentistry and Pain And Anxiety Control in Dentistry.
For 38 years he practiced dentistry, and then at the age of 65 he closed his practice, and with wife Thelma and he moved to Marco Island, Florida where Dr. Stanley Spiro became Stan Spiro jazz musician and bandleader of the Stan Spiro and The Townsmen Orchestra.
He was interviewed by southwest Florida's WIXI radio station, became the subject of a Time Magazine article, and was profiled in Denis Waitley's 1988 book Being The Best.