John D. Corson, MD
#27: 2003-2004
Dr. Corson is Professor of Surgery at the University Of Iowa College Of Medicine. He served there as Chief of the Vascular Surgery Section and Director of the Vascular Surgery Fellowship program for 16 years.
Dr. Corson did his preclinical medical studies at St. Andrews University and then transferred to Edinburgh University, where he completed his medical degree in 1968, at the age of 21. After completing surgical house jobs at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and then teaching anatomy at Glasgow University, he moved south for further postgraduate surgical training in London and Cardiff.
He came to Boston in 1975, on an exchange fellowship, for two years of surgical research prior to completing a surgical residency at Boston University in 1980. He then went to the Massachusetts General Hospital for a Vascular Surgery Fellowship. After six years in Albany, New York, as Chief of Vascular Surgery at the Albany VA Medical Center, he relocated to Iowa City in 1986 to become Chief of the Vascular Surgery Service at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.
Dr. Corson is a member of 48 professional societies. He received Ad Hominum Fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2001; he is also an Honorary Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Chapter of the International Society form Cardiovascular Surgery. He was President of the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery from 1996 to 1997, and is currently the Secretary of the International College of Angiology.
Dr. Corson’s primary research focus has been limb salvage procedures. He is the author of more than 200 articles on vascular disease and has contributed 47 chapters to surgical textbooks. He is co-editor of the general surgery textbook entitled, Surgery. He is a well-known speaker both nationally and internationally and has made more than 400 presentations on a wide array of subjects over the past 20 years. He serves on the editorial boards of several surgical journals.
Dr. Corson is an avid reader, golfer, and world traveler. He is married to Dr. Patricia Westmoreland Corson and is the father to two grown sons. He is the proud owner of a Brussels Griffon named Henry.
