Abstract of Recording

Dr. Garlock died on June 6, 1965. This was recorded on December 8, 1965, six months after his death, in the Blumenthal Auditorium, at The Mount Sinai Hospital. The speakers are: Albert S. Lyons, MD, Horace Hodes, MD, Samuel Klein, MD, Mr. Gustave L Levy, John Madden, MD, Burrill B. Crohn, MD, and Bernard Simon, MD.

Transcript of Garlock Memorial Service (EVE 0001)

Biographical Sketch

John H. Garlock was born in New York City on August 29, 1896. Following premedical preparation at the College of the City of New York, he attended Columbia University and then the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was elected to membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha honorary medical society and graduated in 1919 with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Medicine. After graduation he received training in Surgery at New York Hospital with Eugene Poole, MD. He was appointed Assistant Visiting Surgeon at New York Hospital in 1923, Instructor in Surgery at Columbia University in 1925, and shortly thereafter Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at Cornell University Medical College. During those early years he was concerned chiefly with general surgery, traumatic surgery, plastic surgery, thyroid surgery, and the surgery of the hand. In 1933 Dr. Garlock came to The Mount Sinai Hospital. He advanced rapidly through the Attending Staff ranks and in 1937 he was appointed Attending Surgeon and Chief of the Surgical Service that dealt mainly with gastrointestinal surgery. (With his Mount Sinai appointment came post-graduate teaching duties, for which he was named a Clinical Professor of Surgery at Columbia University.) He gained extensive experience in the problems relating to the surgical treatment of peptic ulcer, gastric cancer, inflammatory diseases of the small and large bowel and surgery of the biliary tract, and contributed significantly to the literature of these fields. Garlock's interest in the esophagus led him to gain extensive experience in the therapy of esophageal lesions as well, including hiatus hernia, esophagitis, stricture, diverticula and achalasia. Garlock's contributions to the surgical literature number upwards of one hundred sixty-five publications including a monograph on the surgery of the hand and chapters on esophageal and intestinal surgery. He was working on a book on the surgery of the alimentary tract at the time of his death on June 6, 1965.