Glenn H. Shepard, M.D.

Born and raised in Newport News and graduated in the Warwick High School Class of '55.

Undergraduate and Med School, UVA Internship and Surgical Residency Vanderbilt University.

Plastic Surgery Residency, Duke.

Certified, America Board of Surgery and the American Board of Plastic Surgery

Surgeon, US Army Hospital of Ft. Gordon, Georgia, and the Second Surgical Hospital in An Khe, Viet Nam.

Practiced Plastic Surgery 28 years in Newport News, in solo practice for most of those years before joining the Plastic Surgery Center of Hampton Roads in 1995.Directed, Peninsula Craniofacial Anomalies Clinic, where with numerous generous volunteer Dentists and dental specialists, Speech Pathologists, Audiologists, ENT Doctors, and Anesthesiologists, and with the support of Riverside Hospital and the Newport News, Hampton, and Williamsburg Schools special needs programs, care was provided to 500 children with cleft lip and palate and other deformities of the face and hands.Directed the Riverside Hospital Laboratory for Microvascular Research for 20 years with basic research on wound healing, cleft palates, and fingernail growth and development. Author of 62 medical papers on wound healing, new surgical procedures of the breast, face and hand, and case histories of medical problems. Past President, The Va. Society of Plastic Surgery, Riverside Dept. of Surgery, and the Mary Immaculate Hospital Dept. of Surgery.Served on the Editorial staffs of The Virginia Medical Monthly, The Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and the Journal of Surgery, Gynecology, and Obstetrics. May, 2010 was a volunteer surgeon with the Notre Dame Hospital Group in Haiti. Currently, a writer with the recent publication of fiction novels, The Missile Game, The Zombie Game and third book in the series, The Ebola Game, to be published in January 2016. The novels are action thrillers that follow the Plastic Surgeon, Dr. Scott James, as he fights to free himself of a double murder conviction and to save his hospital from a terrorist bomber. In the Zombie Game, Dr. Scott James, goes to Haiti to help following a earthquake and gets caught up in the underground zombie culture that tries to make him a zombie. In the third book in the series, The Ebola Game, a terrorist bomb at his hospital released the deadly Ebola virus. Dr. James learns of a secret Ebola immune serum in Haiti and returns, this time enlisting the help of the zombie culture.