John L. Glover, MD
#12: 1988-1989
Dr. Glover was Chief of Surgical Services at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, and was the Program Director of the Surgical Residency.
He was born in Nashville, Tennessee, and lived there until graduation from medical school. His undergraduate and medical degrees are from Vanderbilt University. His internship and surgical residency were at Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. His residency was interrupted in the third year when he was drafted during the Berlin crisis. He was assigned to the Trauma Investigation Branch of the U. S. Army Chemical Research and Development Laboratories in Edgewood, Maryland. As part of his investigation of trauma, he performed a survey of casualties in guerilla warfare at the Vietnamese military hospital near Saigon, Viet Nam in March and April of 1963. He returned to Indiana and completed the surgical residency in December of 1966. He was certified in both general and thoracic surgery in 1968.
After residency, he stayed on the staff of the Indiana University Medical Center, and remained there until July of 1986, having become a Professor of Surgery in 1975. He was interim chairman of the I. U. Department of Surgery from May of 1982 to March of 1984.
In 1971, he became chief of surgery at Wishard Memorial Hospital, the general hospital for Indianapolis and Marion County. During his tenure, Wishard, which previously had an independent surgical residency, became integrated with the Indiana University Medical Center and surgical residency.
As part of the trauma program at Wishard, and working with a biomedical engineer, William Link, PhD, he developed one of the early programs of autotransfusion in trauma and vascular surgery. Also while at Wishard, he worked with another biomedical engineer, Phil Bendick, PhD, in establishing a noninvasive vascular diagnostic laboratory; they published one of the first studies of restenosis after carotid endarterectomy. In addition, he collaborated with Malcolm Herring, MD, who initiated the studies which produced the first successful endothelial seeding of vascular prostheses. As part of that work, a study on endothelial cell adhesion done by Ken Kesler, MD, one of the residents working with Drs Herring and Bendick, won the Liebig Award given by the North American Chapter of the International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery in 1985.
Dr. Glover came to Beaumont in August of 1986. Working with Phil Bendick, who also came to Beaumont in 1986, he continued studies of clinical applications of noninvasice vascular studies. In addition, he continued research on endothelial linings for vascular grafts, collaborating with Laurace Townsend, PhD. During this time, two Beaumont residents, Robert Fietsam and Graham Long, won the Guthrie award given by the Midwestern Vascular Society.
Dr. Glover was a Founding Member of the Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society. While at Beaumont he also was president of the Western Surgical Association, the MidWest Surgical Association, and the Michigan Vascular Society. He and Jean live in Birmingham, Michigan. He died on January 4, 2007 of complications from cardiac surgery.
