Dr. Jost, 88, was former chief of neurotrauma at Frankford Hospital in Philadelphia, which now operates under the name Aria-Jefferson Health.
She opened a private practice in Philadelphia with two other female neurosurgeons in 1968. It was the only such group in the U.S. at the time, according to Women in Neurosurgery, a subdivision of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
Dr. Jost began practicing at the hospital in 1968 and worked there until she retired in 2007.
She was affiliated with Philadelphia-based Einstein Medical Center, Jefferson Health and Temple University Hospital, where she was a clinical professor of neurosurgery.
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