John was born in inner-city Detroit, grew up on the west side of Cleveland, and is Dartmouth Class of 1964. He attended University of Michigan Medical School, where he and his wife, Karen, met. He completed his Surgical and Cardiothoracic Surgical training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, and practiced at Northwestern University Medical School and Dartmouth-Hitchcock for over 40 years. He teaches at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and volunteers at the Good Neighbor Health Clinic in White River Junction, VT. He served the past 2 years as president of OSHER at Dartmouth Lifelong Learning Institute. He and Karen share a love of everything outdoors, and manage 60 acres of forest and meadowland in Lyme.
