{"id":5909,"date":"2013-04-03T16:33:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T20:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=5909"},"modified":"2013-04-03T16:33:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T20:33:59","slug":"dr-glenn-elrod-91-a-man-on-a-mission-in-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/04\/03\/dr-glenn-elrod-91-a-man-on-a-mission-in-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Glenn Elrod &#039;91  &#8211; a man on a mission in Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr.\u00a0Glenn Elrod\u00a0\u201991<\/strong> is an obstetrician-gynecologist in Wasilla, Alaska \u2013 where the temperature\u00a0today happens to be in the 40\u2019s.\u00a0 But since Monday this week, Glenn has been in a much warmer climate during a mission trip to Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>Glen and his wife, Tara Kramer Elrod, who is a midwife, are volunteering at a hospital in Haiti &#8212; Tara is assigned to Labor and Delivery, and Glen to assist the one obstetrician &#8220;with whatever he needs.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/taraelrod.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/day-3-doctors-perspective.html?spref=fb\">Click here<\/a> to read \u201cDay 3- The Doctor&#8217;s Perspective\u201d\u00a0from Tara\u2019s blog about their experiences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/04\/Glen-Elrod-in-Haiti-from-blob.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5910\" title=\"Glen Elrod in Haiti from blob\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/04\/Glen-Elrod-in-Haiti-from-blob-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/04\/Glen-Elrod-in-Haiti-from-blob-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/04\/Glen-Elrod-in-Haiti-from-blob.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glen graduated cum laude from Wabash with a B.A. in Biology, and earned his M.D. from Indiana University in 1997. He completed his residency at Bethesda Hospital in Cincinnati, and after completing his residency, spent six years in the United States Air Force as an ob\/gyn. He now has a private practice, Sleeping Lady Women\u2019s Health Care, in Wasilla.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of the blog<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A Doctor, A Midwife, and A Partridge in a Pear Tree<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.\u00a0Glenn Elrod\u00a0\u201991 is an obstetrician-gynecologist in Wasilla, Alaska \u2013 where the temperature\u00a0today happens to be in the 40\u2019s.\u00a0 But since Monday this week, Glenn has been in a much warmer climate during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}