Dr. Glick is a tenured Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics, and OB/GYN of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, SUNY @ Buffalo and Vice Chairman for Finance and Development for the Department of General Surgery. He is the Director of the Buffalo Institute of Fetal Therapy (BIFT) and the Executive Director of the Miniature Access Surgery Center (MASC) and the Miniature Access Surgery Teaching, Training and Research Center (MASTTAR). Throughout his tenure at Children’s Hospital of Buffalo and SUNY @ Buffalo he has served on numerous hospital, departmental, and university committees. He celebrated his 20th anniversary with SUNY@Buffalo and the Women and children’s hospital of Buffalo in July 2008.
Dr. Glick was born and raised in Southern California. Dr. Glick received his undergraduate education at University of California @ Berkeley and went to medical school at University of California @ San Francisco. He did his General Surgery Residency, Chief Residency in General Surgery, and Fetal Surgery Residencies also at University of California @ San Francisco. He was a senior resident in Pediatric Surgery and Chief Resident in Pediatric Surgery at the University of Washington and The Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Washington. He received his MBA at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Dr. Glick is board certified in Pediatric Surgery, Adult General Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care. Dr. Glick’s academic honors include membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society and the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He has been named to the list of America’s Top Doctors and Western New York’s Top Doctor for the last six consecutive years.
Dr. Glick is an academic pediatric surgery that maintains a busy clinical practice caring for surgical problems of fetuses, newborn infants, children, and adolescents. His specific clinical interests include: congenital diaphragmatic hernia, chest wall defects (pectus excavatum and pectus carinatus), newborn surgery, surgical oncology, pediatric trauma, pediatric critical care, and miniature access surgical techniques. He leads a national and internationally recognized research program in the following areas: lung development, congenital diaphragmatic hernia, fetal physiology, birth defects, prenatal diagnosis of surgical problems, fetal surgery, the genetic aspects of surgical disease, and fetal growth factors. His non basic science academic interests include: the education process for students, residents, and fellows, virtual reality, surgical simulation, telemedicine, telesurgery, teleconferencing, telementoring, and computer applications in medicine, outcomes based research, business and leadership applications in medicine. Throughout his career, Dr. Glick has been interested in quality improvement, error reduction, and risk management efforts at the local, regional, and national levels. However, since obtaining his MBA, Dr. Glick is particularly focused on the effects of leadership and team management on patient safety in the operating room environment. His laboratory has been funded by The Women and Children’s Health Research Foundation (formerly known as Children’s Hospital of Buffalo), the March of Dimes, the American Lung Association, and the National Institute of Health (R01). The MASC and MASTTAR Programs are funded through grants via the Women’s and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo Foundation, Stryker Corporation, Ethicon EndoSurgery, Steris Corporation, Berchtold Corporation, and Computer Motion.
Dr. Glick teaches medical students, Pediatric and Surgical Residents, Pediatric Surgical Fellows, and Colleagues. Dr. Glick has trained 20 pediatric surgical fellows (a majority are practicing in academic departments), supervised 11 Research Fellows, and 4 successful PhD candidates. Dozens of undergraduate and medical students have done summer internships in his laboratory.
Dr. Glick has authored in excess of 130 peer reviewed journal articles, 30 non-peer reviewed articles, 2 cyber-publications, 5 books, 40 book chapters, 90 abstracts, and 50 scientific posters. He has been invited locally, nationally, and internationally to give in excess of 120 lectures on a variety of clinical and basic sciences topics and has been invited as a national or international Visiting Professor on six occasions. He is on two journal editorial boards and a reviewer for 8 peer review journals.
Dr Glick is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Pediatric Surgical Association, the American College of Surgeons, the American Surgical Society, the American Medical Association, the International Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society, the Association for Academic Surgery, the British Association of Pediatric Surgery, the Australian Association of Pediatric Surgery, the Pediatric Surgery Biology Club, the Central Surgical Association, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the Society of University Surgeons, the American Thoracic society, the American College of Physician Executives, and the American College of Hospital Executives.
Dr. Glick resides in Williamsville, NY with his wife, Dr. Drucy S. Borowitz, who is Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Lung Center and Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Center at Children’s Hospital of Buffalo and the Division Head of Pediatric Pulmonology, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine and biomedical Sciences, SUNY @ Buffalo. They have two children; one child is a Senior medical student (George Washington University) and the second child is a graduate student studying Information Management at the iSchool at Syracuse University concentrating on cyber-security policy. He has coached his children at various levels of baseball, softball, and hockey. He enjoys daily workouts on the elliptical trainer, golf, woodworking, and scuba diving. He is an active member of Temple Beth Am in Williamsville, NY.
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