Dr. Robert Nugent
Dr. Robert “Bob” Nugent, one of the nation’s most respected neurosurgeons and a former medical staffer for Mountaineer football, has died.
Dr. Nugent’s affiliation with the West Virginia University football program began in 1968 when Jim Carlen was coaching the team and continued through the 2013 - a total of 46 seasons tending to the medical needs of Mountaineer football players.
Nugent, a Yonkers, New York, native, was a 1950 cum laude graduate of Kenyon College. He received his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati in 1953 and completed his neurosurgical training at Duke in 1958.