F. MICHAEL GLOTH, III, M.D., F.A.C.P., A.G.S.F., C.M.D.

Dr. Gloth is President of Victory Springs Senior Health Associates and an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Gloth graduated from Wayne State University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore and a 3-year Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In 2005, President Bush appointed Dr. Gloth to serve as one of 22 members of the Advisory Committee to the White House Conference on Aging. Dr. Gloth was also appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to serve on the National Advisory Council on Aging to NIH and by the Governor of Maryland to serve on the State Advisory Council on Pain Management, which he chaired and the Maryland Board of Physicians as the first Geriatrician to serve on this Board.

Dr. Gloth represented the American College of Physicians in the development of the National Osteoporosis Foundation’s Guidelines for Osteoporosis. He also was the first Chair of the Special Interest Groups on Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Disease and for Health Information Technology for the American Geriatrics Society. He was the American Geriatrics Society Member on the national committee that developed the Non-Malignant Pain in Long-Term Care Clinical Guidelines, and most recently helped to develop the American Geriatrics Society’s Guidelines for the Management of Persistent Pain in the Older Persons. Dr. Gloth served on the panel for the Revised Beer’s Criteria on Drugs To Be Avoided in the Older Adult. Dr. Gloth has also written a book on pain management entitled Handbook of Pain Relief in Older Adults, released in December 2003 by Humana Press.

Dr. Gloth is active in numerous regional and national advisory boards and medical societies. He is an internationally recognized author and speaker with over 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications and over two hundred regional or national oral presentations. He has served as an ad hoc reviewer for a variety of scientific entities including Urban & Schwarzenberg Medical Publishers, the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, the Johns Hopkins University Press, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, the Annals of Internal Medicine, the NIH Grants Study Section, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the American Journal of Epidemiology, the American Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Dr. Gloth has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards including:
American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) Fellow (1990), International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) Research Foundation Fellow (1990 & 1991), John A. Hartford Foundation Faculty Scholar (1991), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Lilly Clinician Scientist (1992 & 1993), The American Geriatrics Society New Investigator Award (1993), "Top Doc" list for Geriatrics by Baltimore Magazine three consecutive times, Award for best 1994 Maryland Medical Journal article, "Hospice: The most important thing you didn't learn in medical school" (1995), and one of which he is particularly fond, the Golden Apple Teaching Award, Union Memorial Hospital Housestaff (1996). He has been listed in Who's Who (MARQUIS) and in Best Doctors in America, (Woodward/White Selection) on multiple occasions. In 1999, he was given the C. Lockhard Conley Award for Excellence in Resident Education and Research by the Maryland Chapter of the American College of Physicians/American Society of Internal Medicine. In 2001 Dr. Gloth was presented with only the second Outstanding Service Award from the Hospice Network of Maryland. In 2003, he was the top Health Care Hero award winner for Advances in Health Care given by the Daily Record. In 2004 the Alzheimer’s Association of Maryland honored him as a recipient of their Research Superhero Award. Dr. Gloth is the president of two non-profit organizations dedicated to medical education, as well as, an electronic medical records company, Victory Springs Smart E-records. In 1998, Dr. Gloth found time to run as a candidate for the U.S. Senate. Most importantly, he is a husband and the father of 4 delightful daughters.

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