Early Life
Stanley Sarnoff received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University (1938) and his medical degree form Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1942). Although he was interested in research as a medical student, Sarnoff was strongly encouraged to become a cardiac surgeon by his father, Jacob Sarnoff, who was a prominent surgeon of the time.
However, it was while Sarnoff was assisting his father in the operating room that he made observations which challenged conventional thoughts on cardiac physiology. The observations he made on that day would become the foundation of his bench research and revolutionize the way cardiology was practiced.
His observations were so revolutionary that they infuriate his father to which Stanley, displaying the belief in scientific observation that would take him so far, would reply, "Dad, I know what I saw."
After his residency, Sarnoff completed post graduate training at Bellevue Hospital (New York), Beth Israel Hospital (Boston), Mount Sinai Hospital (New York), and Harvard Medical School.
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