Background
Selby, John Horace was born on November 11, 1919 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Howard Williams andEthel (Wagg) S.
Selby, John Horace was born on November 11, 1919 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Howard Williams andEthel (Wagg) S.
Bachelor of Arts, Dartmouth College, 1941. Doctor of Medicine, Boston University, 1944. Postgraduate University of Pennsylvania, 1948.
Intern Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1944-1945. Resident New England Deaconess Hospital, 1945-1946, Portsmouth Naval Hospital, 1946-1948, Massachusetts Memorial Hospital, 1949-1950, Boston City Hospital, 1950-1951 (all Boston), practice medicine, specializing in thoracic surgery, Lubbock, Texas, 1952. Chief thoracic surgery Methodist Hospital, Lubbock, 1964-1973, 77-79, chief surgery, 1954-1956, 64-65.
Chief of staff Saint Mary"s Hospital, Lubbock, 1973, chief surgery, 1970.
Chief surgery University Hospital, 1973. Active staff Methodist Hospital, Saint Mary"s, Health Sciences Center.
Director medical staff affairs Highland Hospital, 1986-1992. Honorary staff West Texas Hospital.
Consultant staff South Park Hospital, Memorial, Seminole, Mercy, Slaton, Cook Memorial, Levelland Hospitals.
Regional medical director Texas Medical Foundation Peer Review Organisation, 1986-1994. Medical director.HMI, Incorporated, 1986-1993. Member medical care advising committee Texas Department Human Superior vena cava syndrome, 1990-1994, chairman physician payment advising committee, 1991-1994.
Chairman of the Board South Plains Health Systems, 1975-1981.
Member Statewide Health Coordinating Council, 1977-1985, Executive Committee, 1979. Clinical professor surgery Texas Technology Medical School, 1975.
Member of advisory committee Lubbock County Hospital District Board, 1979. Trustee, medical director All American Security Life Insurance Company, 1954-1955.
Board of directors Texas Tuberculosis Association, president, 1967-1968.
Board directors Lubbock Community Planning Council, 1954-1956. Chairman advisory board Salvation Army, 1956-1957. Board directors Institute.for International Research and Development.
Board directors Lubbock Area Foundation, 1983, treasurer, 1985.
Diplomate American Board Thoracic Surgery, American Board Surgery.
Chairman advisory board Salvation Army, 1956-1957. Active Statewide Health Coordinator Council, 1977-1985, executive committee, 1979. Advisory committee Lubbock County Hospital District Board, 1979.
Trustee, medical director All American Security Life Insurance Company, 1954-1955. Board director Texas Tuberculosis Association, President, 1967-1968. Board director Institute International Research and Development, Lubbock Area Foundation, since 1983, treasurer, 1985, South Plains Food Bank, since 2001, Goodwill Industries Lubbock, Food Bank, since 2000, Breedlove Dehydration, since 2000.
Board director Lubbock Community Planning Council, 1954-1956. Chairman Board Health, Lubbock, Texas, since 2000. Fellow American College of Surgeons, American College Chest Physicians, International College Surgeons, International Academy Medicine, Southwetern Surgical College.
Member American Medical Association, Southern Thoracic Surgery Association, Southwest Surgical Conference, American Thoracic Society, Texas Trudeau Society (president 1959-1960), Lubbock-Crosby-Garza County Medical Society (president 1984), Panhandle S-Plains Medical Society, Texas Medical Association (house of deals since 1979), committee on health planning 1979-1983, council on socioeconomic 1983-1990, chairman 1985-1990), American Cancer Society (director Texas division 1961-1963), South Plains Heart Association (president 1957), Lubbock County Tuberculosis Association (president 1959-1960, president South Plains Kidney Foundation since 1989), Sigma Chi (Order Constantine since 1994), Rotary International (president Lubbock 1980-1981, district governors representative 1981-1982, governor nominee 1982-1983, governor 1983-1984, inter. national assembly 1985).
Son of; children by previous marriage: John H., Susan, Sherrill, Lucinda. Married Carolyn Symes, February 14, 1970.