1960s - Greco

Ralph S. Greco, M.D. ’68, HS ’73, was appointed the Johnson & Johnson Distinguished Professor and chief of the Division of General Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he is also director of the General Surgery Training Program. After completing his surgical training at Yale, Greco spent two years in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in Seoul, Korea, and Fort Meade, Md., and then joined the faculty at the former Rutgers Medical School. He became a full professor there in 1983, three years before the school changed its name to the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Greco was appointed chief of surgery at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in 1996. His clinical interests include pancreatic surgery, surgical oncology and endocrine surgery. He has long pursued research directed at elucidating the response of host cells, namely neutrophils, to nonbiological surfaces utilized in biomedical implants and devices. Greco, his wife, Irene Wapnir, M.D., and their three children moved to Palo Alto, Calif., in August 2000.