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Glenn Whitman, MD (he/him/his)

Professor, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Co-Director, CVSICU, JHH Director, Cardiac Surgery Quality,JHHS
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

Glenn J.R. Whitman, M.D. is a Professor of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He has served as the Director of the Adult Heart Transplant Program from 2009-17 and is currently the Co-Director of the CVSICU, which he has led since 2009, and the Director of Quality for Cardiac Surgery for the Hopkins Health System.

Dr. Whitman graduated from Harvard College in 1974, following which he was the Harvard Scholar to Cambridge University from 1974 to 1975. After medical school and general surgical training at the University of Pennsylvania, he followed Dr. Alden Harken to the University of Colorado where he finished his general and cardiothoracic surgical training. Dr. Whitman served as the Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Denver Veteran’s Administration Hospital before returning to his home city of Philadelphia, in 1990, to assume the role of Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. In 1998, Dr. Whitman moved to Baltimore to become the Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the University of Maryland. Unfortunately, he has had to withdraw from the active practice of cardiothoracic surgery due to arthritis. Since that time, Dr. Whitman has served as the Director of Transplantation and Perioperative services at Temple University, as well as the Director of the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Thomas Jefferson Hospital.

In the summer of 2009, Dr. Whitman was recruited to Johns Hopkins to be the Director of the Cardiovascular Surgery ICU and to oversee the performance improvement and quality assurance programs for cardiac surgery. He has served as the Chair of The Society of Thoracic Surgery National Workforce on Critical Care from 2014-20. He has close to 300 peer reviewed publications and 50 book chapters and has had leadership roles in the most active thoracic surgical societies in the United States. However, Dr. Whitman is most proud of the many residents and medical students he has mentored over the past 40 years, many of whom have gone on to be leaders and educators in the field of cardiothoracic surgery in their own right.

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