John Flake Anderson, MD: A Conversation with the Editor

Abstract

John Anderson (Figure ​(Figure11) was born at Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC) on November 29, 1948, and grew up in McKinney, Texas. In high school he was both a star athlete (in football, basketball, and baseball) and a top student. He entered Baylor University in Waco, Texas, in 1967 and after 3 years entered Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, graduating in 1973. Both his internship and residency in surgery were at BUMC. He finished the 5-year program in June 1978 and then did a fellowship in vascular surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis under Dr. H. Edward Garrett, who did the first coronary bypass operation when he was in Houston with Dr. Michael DeBakey. After his fellowship, Dr. Anderson returned to BUMC, entering the private practice of vascular and general surgery beginning in July 1979.