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Herbert Sloan, M.D.: A Biographical Sketch
Herbert Sloan was born October 10,1914, in Clarksburg, WV, the sixth of the seven children of Luella Dye and Dr. Herbert E. Sloan. He attended Washington and Lee University, where he was graduated summa cum laude in 1936 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Sloan achieved election to Alpha Omega Alpha at the Johns Hopkins University and received his medical degree there in 1940.
He spent four more years at the Hopkins, where he was successively a house officer, the Halsted Fellow in surgery, and resident surgeon. Dr. Sloan married Dons Edwards, a surgical nurse at the Hopkins, in 1943. They are the parents of five children: Herbert, Ann, Elizabeth, John, and Robert.
His war years from 1944 to 1947 were spent in the Far East on Okinawa and in Korea, where he rose to the rank of Major. It was on Okinawa that his interest in thoracic surgery was stimulated by Max Chamberlain, and this led to an application for a residency in thoracic surgery at the University of Michigan under John Alex- ander and Cameron Haight.
Dr. Sloan arrived in Ann Arbor in 1947 to begin his residency. He rose through the academic ranks and was appointed professor of surgery in 1962. Following the
This biographical sketch was taken from the program for the celebration in honor of h. Sloan held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, Nov 4-5, 1984.
death of Dr. Haight in 1970, Dr. Sloan was appointed head of the Section of Thoracic Surgery and has re- mained in that position up to the present time. In 1982, Dr. Sloan assumed the additional position of Chief of Clinical Affairs of the University Hospitals.
Dr. Sloan holds memberships in nineteen medical societies. He has served as president of both the Ameri- can Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Society of Thoracic Surgeons. His numerous awards include the Distinguished Service Award of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Distinguished Alumni Service Award of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and the Bruce Douglas Award of the Michigan Lung Associa- tion. He has served as secretary-treasurer of the Ameri- can Board of Thoracic Surgery since 1973 and holds memberships in 10 other learned and professional societies.
In addition to his professional responsibilities, Dr. Sloan has served on 39 advisory councils and commit- tees at the University of Michigan since 1961. When plans for the Replacement Hospital began to take shape, he was made cochairman of the campaign to raise $20 million for the new hospital. Dr. Sloan was Editor of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
from 1969 to January, 1984. His bibliography contains 143 entries from journal articles that he has either au- thored or coauthored. He is coauthor of eleven book chapters and a book, Blunt Chest Trauma.
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