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John Griswold M.D.

Department Chairperson

 

School of Medicine

Email: John.Griswold@ttuhsc.edu


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Areas of Expertise:

  • Burns
  • Surgery

Education:

Medical School: Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, 1981
Residency: General Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 1986
Fellowship: Burn Research Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, 1987; Burn Clinical Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, 1988

Awards/Certifications:

Griswold is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Critical Care.

Biography:

Griswold is a professor and chairman of the Department of Surgery in the School of Medicine.

He has also served as the medical director of the UMC Harnar Burn Center, the medical director of Nutrition Support Services, medical director of Regional Transport/Dispatch, Enterostomal Therapy, director of Trauma Services, co-director of Advanced Trauma Life Support, and medical director of Borden County EMS.

  Research Interests   Nutrition in critical care
Pseudomonas infection and virulence
Serum specific indicators of severity of injury
Stroma free hemoglobin effect on cytokine production in acute and chronic illness