The Ward M. Canaday Center

for Special Collections

The University of Toledo

Finding Aid

Glenn Geelhoed Papers, 1995-2015

MSS-233

Size: 6 linear feet

Provenance: Received from Dr. Glenn Geelhoed in December 2009

Access: Open

Collection Summary: Much of this collection consists of Geelhoed’s travel logs regarding his medical missions to developing countries.  His recollections are also presented in the form of emails to friends and colleagues, and photographs.

 

Subject(s): Medicine and Health; Philanthropy; Social Welfare; Travel

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Processing Note:

 

Copyright: The literary rights to this collection are assumed to rest with the person(s) responsible for the production of the particular items within the collection, or with their heirs or assigns.  Researchers bear full legal responsibility for the acquisition to publish from any part of said collection per Title 17, United States Code.  The Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections may reserve the right to intervene as intermediary at its own discretion.

 

Completed by: Sara Mouch, July 2014; Jacalyn DeSelms, September 2015

 

  

Biographical Sketch

 

            Dr. Glenn W. Geelhoed is a widely-published surgeon and professor.  A native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, he received his B.S. and A.B. cum laude degree from Calvin College and his M.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan.  He then moved to Boston to complete his Harvard surgical internship and residency at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the Boston Children’s Hospital Medical Center.  Following his residency, Dr. Geelhoed served as clinical associate and senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.  After he completed his chief surgical residency, he joined the full-time faculty of the George Washington University Medical Center in 1975, where he remains as a Professor of International Medical Education.

 

            Dr. Geelhoed’s interest in global health and developing volunteer surgical services in underserved areas of the developing world led him to complete additional degrees and education, including the Masters degree in International Affairs from the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University (1991); the Masters in Public Health degree in Epidemiology: Health Promotion/Disease Prevention (1993); the Master of Arts cum laude degree in Anthropology with special interests in Biological and Medical Anthropology (1994); the Master of Philosophy degree in Human Sciences in the interdisciplinary program at George Washington University (2004); and the Executive Leadership Doctoral Program (2009).  In 2006, the University of Toledo awarded Dr. Geelhoed the first honorary Sc.D. degree in Humanitarian Sciences of the Health Sciences program, as well as appointed him Distinguished Global Professor of International Health.

With major clinical interests in endocrine surgery, surgical physiology, oncology, and transplantation, as well as in medical education in academic, professional, and international organizations, Dr. Geelhoed has been a frequent Visiting Professor in most of the United States and on all continents. He is also a member of numerous medical, surgical, and international academic societies, including the Society of University Surgeons and The American College of Surgeons, and is a 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. George Magazine named him Humanitarian of the Year in 2000.  He has contributed to several books and over 500 published journal articles.  Publications include Out of Assa: Heart of the Congo and Surgery and Healing in the Developing World.

One of his most recent publications, Mission to Heal, shares the name of Geelhoed’s non-profit organization, founded in 2010.  Through Mission to Heal, he leads medical students, residents, and physicians on medical missions to Africa, Asia, South Pacific, and South America.  To date, he has made over one hundred missions, many of which he describes in detail in the materials contained within the collection.

 

Scope and Content Note

 

            The Glenn Geelhoed Papers consist of travel logs, email communication, and photographs primarily documenting his medical missions to developing countries.  He also discusses some personal events in his life, including the birth of his grandchildren and his experience at the National Airport on September 11, 2001.  The photographs are digital, thumbnail printouts, mostly black and white, with the exception of an album included on a CD. 

 

            The collection is arranged chronologically.

 

Folder List

 

Box

Folder

Item

1

1

1995, 1998-2000

1

2

1999, 2005, 2008-2010, 2013-2014 (electronic files burned to CD)

1

3

January-February 2001

1

4

March-April 2001

1

5

May-June 2001

1

6

July-August 2001

1

7

September-October 2001

1

8

November-December 2001

1

9

January-February 2002

1

10

March-April 2002

1

11

May-June 2002

1

12

July 2002

1

13

August 2002

1

14

September-October 2002

1

15

November-December 2002

1

16

January-February 2003

1

17

March-April 2003

1

18

May-June 2003

1

19

July-August 2003

1

20

September-October 2003

1

21

November-December 2003

2

1

July 2004

2

2

August-September 2004

2

3

October-November 2004

2

4

December 2004

2

5

January-February 2005

2

6

March-April 2005

2

7

May-June 2005

2

8

July 2005

2

9

August 2005

2

10

September 2005

2

11

October 2005

2

12

November-December 2005

2

13

2005, Surgery and Healing in the Developing World, Ch. 1-21

2

14

2005, Surgery and Healing in the Developing World, Ch. 22-46

2

15

January-February 2006

2

16

March 2006

2

17

March 2006, photos

2

18

April-June 2006

3

1

July-August 2006

3

2

September-October 2006

3

3

November-December 2006

3

4

January-February 2007

3

5

March 2007

3

6

April 2007

3

7

May-June 2007

3

8

July-August 2007

3

9

September-October 2007

3

10

November-December 2007

3

11

January-February 2008

3

12

March-April 2008

3

13

May-June 2008

3

14

July-August 2008

3

15

September-October 2008

3

16

November-December 2008

3

17

Dissertations, 2008

3

18

January-February 2009

4

1

March-April 2009

4

2

May-June 2009

4

3

July 2009

4

4

August-September 2009

4

5

October-November 2009

4

6

December 2009

4

7

January-February 2010

4

8

March-April 2010

4

9

May-June 2010

4

10

January 2011

4

11

February 2011

4

12

March-April 2011

4

13

May-June 2011

4

14

July-August 2011

4

15

September 2011

4

16

October-November 2011

4

17

December 2011

4

18

January 2012

4

19

February-March 2012

5

1

April-May 2012

5

2

June 2012

5

3

July 2012

5

4

August-September 2012

5

5

October-November 2012

5

6

December 2012

5 7 January 2013
5 8 February 2013
5 9 March 2013
5 10 April 2013
5 11 May 2013
5 12 June 2013
5 13 July 2013
5 14 August 2013
5 15 September 2013
5 16 October 2013
5 17 November 2013
5 18 December 2013
6 1 January 2014
6 2

January 2014

6 3 February 2014
6 4 February 014
6 5 March 2014
6 6 April 2014
6 7

April 2014

6 8 May 2014
6 9 June 2014
6 10 June - July 2014
6 11 July 2014
6 12 August 2014
6 13 September 2014
6 14 October 2014
6 15 October 2014
6 16 November 2014
6 17 December 2014
5 19 January 2015
5 20 February 2015
5 21 March 2015
5 22 April 2015
5 23 May 2015
5 24 June 2015