John J. Conley MD

Dr. Conley returned to New York City after the war. He became an assistant and then an associate of Dr. George T. Pack, a technically superb general oncologic surgeon at Memorial Hospital who taught Dr. Conley major ablative surgery of the head and neck.

They worked day and night catching up with the backlog of surgery that was neglected during the war years. The combination of his training in otolaryngology, the exposure to ablative surgery, and the World War II experience in reconstructive surgery set the stage for Dr. Conley to evolve his unique approach to head and neck surgery.