Geelhoed, Glenn W., M.D. | Heritage Hall, Hekman Library

Glenn W. Geelhoed was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the third of four siblings, and the only boy. As an adult, Geelhoed received his BS and AB cum laude degrees from Calvin College. He also received his Medical Degree cum laude degree from the University of Michigan. After graduating from the University of Michigan Medical School, Geelhoed moved to Boston. Following a Harvard surgical internship and residency at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and also at the Boston Children's Hospital Medical Center, Geelhoed served as clinical associate and senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. After completion of his chief surgical residency, Geelhoed 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.

(from mmhof.org)