Jonathan B. Towne, MD
#13: 1989-1990
Dr. Jonathan B. Towne was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Pittsburgh in 1963. He graduated from the University of Rochester Medical School in 1967. His first two years of surgical training were at the University of Michigan, and his General Surgery training was completed at the University of Nebraska.
Following general surgery training, he was Chief of General Surgery at Vandenberg Air Force Base Hospital in California from 1972 to 1974. He then completed a vascular fellowship under the direction of Dr. Jesse Thompson in Dallas, Texas. He has been on the faculty of the Medical College of Wisconsin since July 1975, where he is Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Section of Vascular Surgery.
His academic interests include studies of patients with abnormal clotting factors as a cause for unexplained thrombosis, and factors affecting long-term patency in distal grafts.
Dr. Towne has authored or co-authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals as well as textbook chapters.
Dr. Towne is a member, and has served as President of the Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society, Peripheral Vascular Surgical Society, Jesse Thompson Vascular Society, the Wisconsin Surgical Society, the Society for Vascular Surgery, Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery, the Milwaukee Surgical Society, the Central Surgical Association, and has been elected to serve as Director of the American Board of Surgery.
Dr. Towne and his wife, Sandra, have three children and four grandchildren.
