Orthopedic Surgeon Ronald M. Lampert, M.D., passed away on Sunday, March 26, 2023, at the Hospice of the Valley in Phoenix, Arizona, at the age of 89.
Medicine was in Lampert’s DNA—both his father and uncle were doctors. His father had his practice in an office across the hall from the family’s brownstone apartment.
Following in their footsteps, Dr. Lampert decided to go into medicine after receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He earned his medical degree from the University of Tennessee in Memphis. It was there that he found a passion for orthopedics.
After serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force for two years, between 1959 and 1961, he did a surgical internship at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and then a surgical residency at the Hospital for Joint Diseases also in New York City.
In 1966, he moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, to join St. Paul Orthopedic Surgeons. He had surgical privileges at Miller and United Hospitals. In 1989, he moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, and set up a practice there. After retiring from medicine, he moved to Prescott, Arizona, to work as an expert witness in disability litigation. He worked all the way up until his early 80s and then moved back to Scottsdale.
Lampert was born in The Bronx in New York on July 10, 1933, to his parents, Benjamin and Rose Lampert. For most of his childhood, he was an only child, but then his sister Carol was born when he was 14 years old.
He was married twice. He and his first wife, Susan Rosenthal, had three children together—Scott, Brooke and Paige. He was married to his second wife Shari Bucholtz for 49 years. Their daughter Trisha was born in 1979.
Lampert is survived by his wife Shari, his children and his grandchildren, Giovanni Galeoto, Zoe and Ivy Lampert and Grey, Beckett, and Finley Andrews.
