Childhood, Education and Family
Joseph E. “Joe” Bogen, M.D. was born on July 13, 1926, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
He was raised in Ohio, moved to Southern California at 16 and graduated from Monrovia High School, Monrovia, California in 1943. He began undergraduate studies at Caltech in 1943, but left to join the United States Navy in 1944. He was deployed to the South Pacific and was honorably discharged in 1946. He completed his undergraduate education at Whittier College and received a B.A. in Economics in 1949. He enrolled in the University of Cincinnati and UCLA, followed by the USC School of Medicine.
In 1955, he married the former Glenda A. Miksch, R.N. They had three children, a boy named Glenn David, who died in infancy, and two daughters, Meriel and Mira.
Dr. Bogen received his M.D. from the University of Southern California in 1956. From 1956-57 he completed an internship in Surgery at the New York Hospital Cornell, from 1957-58, he completed his residency in Surgery at that institution. From 1958-59, he was a Fellow in Medical Sciences at the National Research Council. From 1959-63, he was a Resident in Neurosurgery, at White Memorial Hospital. In 1966, he received his board certification and was a Diplomate, American Board of Neurological Surgery.
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