Glenn W. Geelhoed, MD
Professor
of Surgery
Professor
of International Medical Education
Professor
of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine
George Washington University
Medical Center
Washington D.C.
Glenn W. Geelhoed,
received his BS and AB cum laude degrees from Calvin
College and his MD cum laude from the University of Michigan. Following the Harvard surgical
internship and residency at the Peter Bent Brigham
Hospital, Boston,
and the Boston Children's Hospital Medical Center,
he served as clinical associate and senior investigator at the National Cancer
Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,
Maryland. After completion of his
chief surgical residency, he joined the full-time faculty at George Washington
University as an Associate Professor
of Surgery in Washington, DC in 1975. He was awarded an appointment as
clinical scholar of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is a member of
numerous medical, surgical and international academic societies, including the
Society of University Surgeons and the American College
of Surgeons, and is past president of the Washington Academy of Surgeons. He
was selected the James IV Traveling Scholar of 1986, and inducted into the
Academie de Chirurgie de Paris in 1990.
He was named Humanitarian of the Year by George Magazine in 2000, and elected for GWUMC’s Faculty
Distinguished Service Award in 2006.
His major clinical
interests have been in endocrine surgery, surgical physiology, oncology and
transplantation. He has been a frequent Visiting Professor in most of the United States
and on all continents, traveling with a strong interest in global health that
includes the third world. He is a widely published author accredited with
several books and over 800 published journal articles and chapters in books,
and has a major interest in medical education in academic, professional and
international organizations. Recent
publications have included Out of Assa:
Heart of the Congo, and Surgery and
Healing in the Developing World.
To assist in
developing further volunteer surgical services in underserved areas of the
developing world, he completed the DTMH in the University of London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1990, and a Masters degree in International
Affairs from the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington
University in 1991. He
completed the MPH degree in Epidemiology: Health Promotion/Disease Prevention
in 1993 and in 1994 additionally achieved the MA cum laude in Anthropology with
special interests in Biologic and Medical Anthropology. He achieved the MPhil
degree in the Human Sciences in 2004 and is currently a candidate for the EdD
in the Executive Leadership Doctoral Program of the Graduate School of
Education and Human Development, 2007, of the George Washington
University. He was awarded the first Honorary ScD Degree
of the University
of Toledo’s Health
Science faculties in Humanitarian Sciences in 2006.
He completed a further
period of research and service in southern Africa
supported by an award as Senior Fulbright Scholar for 1996, in developing the
African Regional Research Program. He has led medical students, residents and
physicians into clinical experiences in the developing world on over one
hundred medical missions in Africa, Asia, South Pacific and South
America.
AB cum laude: Philosophy, English Literature
Calvin College,
1964
BS: Biology, Chemistry
Calvin College,
1965
MD cum laude: Physiology
University of Michigan Medical
Center, 1968
NIH Surgery Branch, National Cancer
Institute
National Institutes of Health, 1970-73
FACS: Endocrine Surgery, Oncology,
Transplantation, Shock/Trauma/Sepsis
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1968--69,
Harvard Medical School,
Boston Children's Hospital Medical Center, 1969--70
George Washington University Hospital, 1973--75,
American College of Surgeons, 1976
Clinical Scholar: Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation
George Washington
University Medical
Center, 1975--77
Surgical Traveling Scholar: James IV
Association of Surgeons
South Africa, England, Scotland,
North Ireland, Wales, Sweden and Pakistan, 1986
DTMH: Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
University of London,
London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Royal College
of Physicians, London,
1990
MA: International
Affairs
Elliot School
of International Affairs
George Washington
University, 1991
MPH: Epidemiology: Health
Promotion/Disease Prevention
School of Public
Health and Health
Services
George Washington
University, 1993
MA cum laude: Anthropology: Biologic and
Medical Anthropology
Columbia Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences
George
Washington University,
1995
Senior Fulbright Scholar: African
Regional Research Program
Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe,
Tanzania
Council on the International Exchange of Scholars, 1996
Humanitarian of the Year
George Magazine, Kennedy
Foundation, New York,
2000
MPhil: Human Sciences
CGSAS Doctoral Program in Human
Sciences
George
Washington University,
2004
ScD:
Humanitarian Sciences (honoris
causae)
Medical University
of Ohio School of Health Sciences
University
of Toledo. 2006
EdD: Executive Leadership Doctoral
Program,
Graduate School of Education and Human
Development
George Washington University
. (pending, 2007)
Surgical Faculty,
The National Institute of First Assisting, Inc. (NIFA) and;
The
College of Southern Nevada (CSN) 2008-
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