Background
Medins, Gunars was born on September 21, 1924 in Riga, Latvia. Came to the United States, 1950. Son of Janis and Olga Medins.
Medins, Gunars was born on September 21, 1924 in Riga, Latvia. Came to the United States, 1950. Son of Janis and Olga Medins.
Doctor of Medicine, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany, 1950. Master of Science in Surgery, Northwestern University, 1957. Postgraduate surgery training, Loyola University, 1958.
Postgraduate surgery training, Northwestern University, 1960. Postgraduate surgery training, University Tennessee, 1961.
Resident, Chicago, 1957-1958, 58-59, Memphis, 1960-1961. Private practice Illinois, 1952-1954, 63-65. Staff surgeon Canal Zone, 1961-1963.
Chief surgery Samoa, 1965-1967. Private practice Hawaii, 1967-1988, Georgia, since 1988. Volunteer surgeon Palau, Micronesia, 1977-1978, Kinshasa, Zaire, 1974-1976, Pago Pago, Samoa, 1985-1986, St. Lucia, 1989, Peshawar, Pakistan, 1991.
Fellow American College of Surgeons, American College Chest. Physicians; member Sigma Xi.
Married Jacqueline Burright, November 28, 1953 (divorced May 1959). 1 child, Peter; Married Carol Jean Benson, November 7, 1959. Children: Lisa, Juliette, Gunars, John, Christian, Maria.