John Gearhart
John Phillip Gearhart is an American professor in paediatrics and urology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is known for his work in treating children born with genitourinary tract deformities, including bladder exstrophy and epispadias.
John Gearhart' was born in 1949 in Lexington, Kentucky. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 1971 from Morehead State University and his MD in 1975 from the University of Louisville School of Medicine.
Career
Gearhart completed his internship at the Medical College of Georgia. There, he also did two residencies; a general surgery post that ended in 1977 and then a place in urology completed in 1980. He subsequently received a one-year fellowship in paediatric urology at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, in Liverpool, England. For two years he worked as a urologist at St. Mary's Medical Center, Huntington, back in the US. In 1985 he joined the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as associate professor of paediatric urology, having completed a two year fellowship there in the same field. In 1991, he was appointed director of paediatric urology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Four years later he was appointed professor of paediatric urology at Johns Hopkins, where he treats children born with genitourinary tract deformities, including bladder exstrophy and epispadias.
Gearhart co-founded the Society of Reconstructive Genitourinary Surgeons.
Gearhart was awarded a fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2008.
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