Grand Bahama native, Dr. Donald Glass II, MD / PhD,
Assistant Professor of Dermatology at the University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Centre, Dallas, Texas, was recently
named a Dedman Scholar in Clinical Care at the Medical Centre.
A release appearing in the
CENTERTIMES, a publication of the
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre, as well as in the Dallas
Morning News (a major dailynewspaperserving theDallas,Texasarea, reads “The Dedman Family
Scholars in Clinical Care (is) an endowed program focused on recruiting
talented clinician-scientists early in their careers. The Dedman Foundation
made a landmark $12 million gift in 2009 to establish the Dedman Family endowed
Program for Scholars in Clinical Care at UT Southwestern. The gift made to
Southwestern Medical Foundation, was matched to create a $24 million endowment,
which aids in recruiting the more promising early-career physicians to the
medical center and launching their careers under the mentorship of senior
clinicians and clinical scientists.”
Continuing, the release stated,
“At UT Southwestern, Dr. Glass studies keloids (exuberant scarring of the skin)
and how they occur. He is investigating the genes that predispose people to
develop keloids, which can be painful and itchy as well as disfiguring. He has
an interest in studying diseases that affect patients of color, and keloids
occur disproportionately more often within these groups. Developing keloids can
be an inherited trait within families and Dr. Glass is compiling a registry of
individuals as well as affected families in order to collect samples and
information for further study. There is no current treatment to prevent keloids
from occurring or from reforming if they are surgically removed. By better
understanding why these scars occur, Dr. Glass said he hopes to devise more
effective preventive treatments for keloids.”
Dr. Glass was born in Freeport,
Grand Bahama, where he attended Mary Star of the Sea Catholic School,
graduating as Co-Valedictorian. He attended St. Paul’s Methodist College and in
the eleventh grade, received a scholarship to attend a summer session at Taylor
University in Upland, Indiana. He
graduated from St. Paul’s Methodist College at the age of 15 yrs as
Valedictorian and Deputy Head Boy. He earned 13 GCE’s, including one AP and
during the graduation ceremony was the recipient of 8 subject awards, including
the Principal’s Award for the highest GPA.
While in school in Freeport, he
enjoyed playing soccer at the YMCA, participated in the Junior Achievement
Programme and was Most Distinguished Achiever. A football aficionado, he had
the opportunity to train under Coach Mike Bass with the Guinness Titans.
Dr. Glass received a United
World Colleges Scholarship to attend Lester B. Pearson College in Victoria,
Canada, where he received his International Baccalaureate Degree. He attended
the University of Pennsylvania, graduating magna cum laude with a B. Sc. Degree
in Chemistry. He matriculated at Baylor
College of Medicine at Texas Medical Centre in Houston, Texas, where he
received his MD / PhD. His dissertation at Baylor focused on the role of Wnt
signaling in bone regulation, and he was selected to represent his class as the
Speaker at his Ph.D. graduation ceremony.
Dr. Glass interned at Cambridge
Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts and completed his
dermatology residency at UT Southwestern.
Dr. Glass has lectured on his
research at a number of conferences in the United States and Canada. He has
publications in various journals including the
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, Developmental Cell and
the New England Journal of Medicine.
Dr. Glass expressed his
appreciation to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Glass, Sr, and to his teachers
at Mary Star and St Paul’s and to all those individuals and organizations who
have assisted him in his academic career.