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John P. McGoff, MD, served as the 135th President of the Indianapolis Medical Society in 2008-2009.
Born and raised in the Broad Ripple area of Indianapolis, John attended St. Pius X Catholic Grade School with his five brothers and sisters. He graduated from North Central High School in 1977. When not in school or at wrestling practice, Dr. McGoff volunteered in the Wishard Hospital Emergency Department, and it is there that he decided to become a physician.
In 1980, at the age of 20, Dr. McGoff graduated from Indiana University with a degree in biology and then matriculated into the IU School of Medicine. During his third year of medical school, he joined the Medical Officer20Training Corps with the Indiana National Guard and he has been serving in the military ever since. Upon completion of medical school in 1984, he performed his three-year residency in Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. There, he met a young nurse named Karen Strom, now his wife. They have a 13-year-old daughter, Ava. After finishing his residency in 1987, John returned to Indianapolis and began working in the Emergency Department at Community Hospital, where he has since helped tens of thousands of patients from many different backgrounds.
Dr. McGoff has continued with the National Guard and has been recently confirmed by the US Senate for promotion to Brigadier General. He currently serves as the Air Guard Assistant to the United States Air Force Surgeon General at European Headquarters. John has deployed extensively around the world with operational tours in Antarctica, Turkey, Jordan, Bahrain and Germany and has currently logged over 600 hours of flight time. In 2001, he graduated from the Air Force's Air War College. He returned last January from a tour in Iraq, where he served as the Director of Emergency Services at the 332 EMDG, Joint Base=2 0Balad.
In addition to his roles as a father, physician, and Colonel, Dr. McGoff remains an active member of the community in many other ways. He has served on a variety of national, state and local boards including the Board of Directors for Community Hospitals, Marion County Forensic Science Commission, Indiana Organ Procurement Organization, Indiana Brain Injury Leadership Board, and Past-President of the Indiana Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Dr. McGoff has also been active in Republican politics in Marion County and Indiana for many years. In 1996, he was elected Marion County Coroner, serving two terms. In May 2008, he narrowly lost an election for the Republican nomination for Indiana's Fifth Congressional District.
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Jon D. Marhenke, MD
Jon D. Marhenke, MD, an Indianapolis Psychiatrist, served as the 128th President of the Indianapolis Medical Society in 2001.
Dr. Marhenke graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1969, completed a rotating internship at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis in 1970, and finished his residency in Psychiatry at IU in 1975. He served as Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy Medical Corps from 1971 to 1973. Dr. Marhenke was certified in Psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 1979.
He has served as Acting Director of the Mental Hygiene Clinic at the Roudebush V.A. Hospital in Indianapolis, and has also served on the hospital staffs of Methodist, Winona, St. Vincent's, Humana Women's and Community.
He has served on numerous committees at IU School of Medicine, Veteran's Hospital, Crossroads Rehabilitation Center, Indiana Psychiatric Society, Indiana State Medical Association, Central State Hospital, and Methodist. He has been the Indiana Psychiatric Society Representative or Deputy Representative to the Assembly of District Branches of the American Psychiatric Association from 1987 to 2002.
His professional activities include Psychiatric Consultant to Military Entrance Examination and Processing Station from 1977 to the present, private practice of general adult psychiatry from 1976 to the present, and various other consulting services.
Dr. Marhenke has served on the Board of Directors of the Indianapolis Medical Society since 1991 and has held the position of Vice Chairman and Secretary/Treasurer on the Executive Committee. He has been active in the Society by serving on various committees.