Background
Bowen, John Canada was born on March 8, 1941 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Son of John Canada Junior and Laura Louise (McDaniel) Bowen.
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John Canada Bowen
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Bachelor, Yale University, 1963; Doctor of Medicine, Columbia College, 1967.
Career
Intern, University Hospitals of Cleveland, 1967-1968;
resident, University Hospitals of Cleveland, 1968-1969;
resident, chief resident, Case Western Reserve U. Affil. Hospitals, Cleveland, 1971-1973;
assistant professor surgery and physiology, University Texas Medical School, Houston, 1974-1976;
surgeon, Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, since 1976;
director surgical education and research, associate medical director, Alton Ochner Medical Foundation, New Orleans, 1976-1987;
associate professor surgery and physiology, Louisiana State University Medical School, New Orleans, since 1982;
program director general and vascular surgery, Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, New Orleans, 1993-1997;
department chairman surgery, Ochsner Clnic anc Ochsner Foundation Hospital, New Orleans, since 1993. Board directors, secretary South Louisiana Medical Associations, Houma, Louisiana, since 1978.
Burroughs Wellcome visiting professor Royal Society Medicine, England, 1992.
Achievements
Membership
Board trustees Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, New Orleans, 1988-1997, Board of Governors since 1997. Board of Governors Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, 1987-1989, 93-94. Major United States Army, 1969-1971.
Fellow American College of Surgeons. Member American Physiological Society, Southern Surgical Association, Society Surgery Alimentary Tract, Society Surgical Oncology, International Society Cardiovascular Surgery.
Connections
Married Mary Dupree Eldridge, August 8, 1964 (divorced February 1972). Children: Laura Bowen Wills, Eldridge. Married Myriam (Mimi) Robinson, September 14, 1991.
