Dr. Glover

The ASA office just received a phone call from the family of a woman whose life was saved more than 50 years ago by a team of doctors including a distinguished ASA member at that time, Dr. Richard P. Glover. The only reference they've been able to find to his family is the death notice in our ASA newsletter in 1961:

ROBERT P. GLOVER DIES

One of the most distinguished members of the ASA, Dr. Robert P. Glover, died at his home in Cynwyd, Pa, after an illness of six months. Dr. Glover was one of a three-man team of surgeons who in 1947 and 1948 pioneered in mitral valve heart operations. Later he found a way to slice into the heart near a diseased valve thickened by scar tissue and inserting a tiny rod-like instrument which opened like an umbrella to stretch the valve back to normal. In 1952 they developed the famous "drawstring" techniqu6 to reseal leaking heart valves.

Dr. Glover was Assistant clinical professor of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and chief of the department of thoracin and cardiovascular surgery at Presbyterian, St. Christopher's and Fitzgerald-Mercy Hospitals. He was the author of sections on cardiovascular surgery in a number of textbooks and was editor of the book, "Practical Diagnosis of Surgical Heart Disease". His last book will be published posthumously. His parents were medical missionaries in China. Dr. Glover is survived by his wife, two daughters and a son to whom our deepest Christian sympathy is extended.

The woman was one of the first to receive the heart treatment and she is still alive. Her family is interested in contacting the family of the doctor as part of appreciation for what he did. Do any of you have any knowledge of him or his descendents?

Randy
Received on Thu Mar 9 14:58:28 2006