Roy Glenwood Spurling

Roy Glenwood Spurling (1894 to 1968), known as Glen Spurling, was an American neurosurgeon who is remembered for describing Spurling's test. Born in Centralia, Missouri, he took his medical degree at Harvard in 1923 and trained under Harvey Cushing at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. In 1926 he founded the neurosurgery service at the University of Louisville medical school and led it until 1960. He helped form the American Association of Neurological Surgeons in 1931 and served as its president, and he was a founding member and later president of the American Board of Neurological Surgery. During the Second World War he organised neurosurgical care for the United States Army, served as first chief of neurosurgery at Walter Reed, and attended General Patton after his fatal car accident in 1945.