David. L. Glancy, MD

David Lucas (Luke) Glancy was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and reared in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his MD degree from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland and completed a residency in Internal Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital where he served as Chief Resident. Dr. Glancy served in the United States Public Health Service from 1966 to 1972 and was assigned to the National Heart Institute in Bethesda, Maryland where he worked in cardiac pathology with William C. Roberts for two years and was Chief of Cardiovascular Diagnosis in the Cardiology Branch his last four years.

In 1972 Dr. Glancy came to LSU Medical School in New Orleans as Chief of Cardiology. In 1974, he became Medical Director of Cardiology at Hotel Dieu (now University Hospital), a position he held for 18 years. He returned to academic medicine in 1992 as Chief of Cardiology both at LSU and at University Hospital. He currently serves as Professor of Medicine, Emeritus Director of the Cardiology Fellowship Training Program, Emeritus Chief of Cardiology at LSU, and Medical Director of Cardiology at University Hospital.

Dr. Glancy joined the American Heart Association in 1966 and has been a fellow of its Council on Clinical Cardiology since 1970, twice serving as the Council's Mississippi/Louisiana representative. He served the Louisiana Affiliate of the AHA in many capacities, was its president in 1982-83, and its Heart Gala honoree in 2001. Dr. Glancy also is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the American College of Cardiology. He was named a Master Teacher of the American College of Cardiology in 1973 and was Governor of the Louisiana Chapter of the ACC from 1982 to 1985. He is a fellow of The Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions, which he helped found in 1978, and a member of the Southeastern Clinical Club (President 1993), the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Federation for Clinical Research, and the New Orleans Academy of Internal Medicine. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Medical Center of Louisiana Foundation. He has served on the editorial boards of Medical Letter, Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, the American Journal of Cardiology, and Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society since 2002. He has been visiting Principal Fellow at the Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial School of Medicine, London, UK and Visiting Professor of Cardiology at the Shick Cardiac Education Center, Naples, Florida.

He has 300 publications in peer-review medical journals.