Surgery: Vascular, Endovascular
Aortic Grafts/Stents for Aneurisms
Venous Disease, Varicose Veins
Hemodialysis for Kidney Failure
Gene Expression During Wound Healing
Nondiabetic Wound Healing

K-12 and college students, lay public

Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery, F. Edward Herbert School 
of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health 
Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, MD

Assistant Chief, Vascular Surgery Service, Walter Reed Army 
Medical Center (WRAMC), Washington, DC

After receiving his medical degree, Dr. Gillespie completed an 
internship at the Letterman Army Medical Center in San 
Francisco and a residency in surgery in Boston University's (BU) 
Surgical Residency Program. He has continued to teach surgery, 
first at BU and then at USUHS, and has hospital privileges at 
WRAMC, National Naval Medical Center, and Malcolm Grow 
Medical Center at Andrews Air Force Base, MD. Dr. 
Gillespie's clinical practice involves major vascular and 
endovascular procedures, and he spends many hours with 
students at USUHS.

D.M.C.C. (Diploma in the Medical Care of Catastrophes), 
Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London

M.D., USUHS

B.S, cum laude, Zoology, Washington State University (WSU), 
Pullman, WA

B.S., cum laude, Biochemistry, WSU

Dr. Gillespie grew up in a military family and cultivated his 
interest in science through reading about animals in encyclopedias. 
In high school, he was turned on to science by his teacher's 
lessons on microbiology. During his college years, Dr. Gillespie 
found that he loved the labs and coursework in organic 
chemistry,biochemistry, and anatomy. He acknowledges that his 
surgical hand-eye coordination came from his artistic mother and 
woodworking father. As a surgeon, Dr. Gillespie studies 
anatomical pathology and works to relate it to molecular and 
genetic events at the cellular level. He is also interested in chip 
technology as it influences the treatment of wound healing.    

Alpha Omega Alpha, BU School of Medicine Chapter

Fellow, American College of Surgeons

Manuscript/Book Reviewer, Journal of Vascular 
Surgery

Member, International Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, 
Association of Academic Surgeons, International Society of 
Endovascular Specialists