John Watson Harmon

Background

Harmon, John Watson was born on April 22, 1943 in White Plains, New York, United States.

Education

Bachelor, Harvard University, 1965; Doctor of Medicine, Columbia University, 1969.

Career

Intern, then resident in surgery Harvard surgical service, Boston City Hospital and New England Deaconess Hospitals, 1969-1975; Harvard research fellow in surgical gastroenterology, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, 1972; fellow in gastrointestinal and endocrine surgery, Lahey Clinic, Boston, 1973; surgical investigator, Walter Reed Army Institute Research, Washington, 1975-1985; director division surgery, Walter Reed Army Institute Research, Washington, 1983-1985; staff surgeon, Walter Reed Medical Center, Washington, 1977-1985; chief surgery, VA Medical Center, Washington, 1985-1996; professor surgery, Georgetown University, Washington, 1985-1996; professor surgery, George Washington University, Washington, 1985-1996; professor, vice department chairman surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, since 1996; department chairman surgical science, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, since 1996. Professor Uniformed Superior vena cava syndrome U. Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland., since 1978. Surgery and bioengineering study section National Institutes of Health, Army liaison, 1983-1987, ad hoc member surgery merit review board VA, 1992, program specialist study section, 1994-1997.

Member panel VIII physics and medicine of wound ballistics and casualty care North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1983-1986. Member task force on clinical research in surgry Institute Medicine, 1992.

Achievements

• John Watson Harmon has been listed as a noteworthy Surgeon, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Colonel Medical Corps, United States Army Reserve, since 1987. Member American College of Surgeons, Shock Society, Society University Surgeons (representative to American Association Medical Colls. 1982-1985), Association for Academy Surgery (nominating committee 1982-1984), Society.for Surgery Alimentary Tract, Association VA Surgeons (local arrangements chairman 1986), American Federation for Clinical Research, Association Military Surgeons United States, Collegium International Chirurgiae Digestivae, International Society Surgery, American Physiological Society, Pancreas Club, American Association Endocrine Surgeons, Association Program Dirs. in Surgery (associate), American Surgical Association, Surgical Biology Club III, Chesapeake Vascular Society, Cosmos Club, Alpha Omega Alpha.

Connections

M. Gail McGreevy; children: James Milton, Eve Page.

child:

Eve Page Harmon

child:

James Milton Harmon