Goldring, Sidney

Polish-born American neurosurgeon who pioneered the surgical treatment of epilepsy.

Beginning in the 1970s, Dr.

Goldring developed a technique that allows the brain to be mapped, enabling the procedure to be used with children with intractable epilepsy.

After a stint at the University of Pittsburgh, Goldring in 19966 joined the faculty at Washington University in St.

Louis where he became the head of neurological surgery and co-chair of the newly created Department of Neurology and Neurological Surgery in 1974. Dr.

Goldring died in 2004 at age 81 of Alzheimer's disease