Georgia Gwinnett Professor Recovering From Hit And Run

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA - A Georgia Gwinnett College professor is in a Maryland hospital recovering from injuries he received in a hit-and-run accident on New Year’s Eve, according to his Go Fund Me account.

Tom Gluick is an assistant professor of chemistry at GGC, and is recovering after multiple surgeries at Maryland’s R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Gluick’s ex-wife, Sheila Garrity said on the page.

Gluick was walking across the street near the Towson Mall in Maryland and was struck by a vehicle that reportedly left the scene, according to WMAR Baltimore. He was stopping in Maryland on his way home after visiting family in New York, according to the Garrity.

Gluick was airlifted to Shock Trauma in critical condition. FOX 5 Atlanta reported Gluick suffered broken bones in his arms, eye sockets, right leg and eight ribs. Gluick has undergone multiple surgeries since the accident and was gaining consciousness on Monday.

Garrity launched a Go Fund Me page to help cover his recovery financially. The fundraiser had exceeded $12,000 on Tuesday afternoon.

Garrity said the road to recovery for Gluick will be a long one, but she was keeping him in positives spirits and was encouraged by the support from the community helping aid his recovery.

“I remind myself and Tom of all we have to be grateful for: he is alive, he is under the care of the best available providers in the country at Shock Trauma, and he is surrounded by people who care,” Garrity wrote. “It takes a village and I thank you all.”

Georgia Gwinnett College issued a statement consoling Gluick and his friends and family recovery.

“We are very sorry to learn of Dr. Gluick’s situation,” the statement said, according to the Gwinnett Daily Post. “He is a member of our Grizzly family and our thoughts and prayers are with him, his family and friends during this difficult time.”

Gluick expressed an interest at an early age in becoming a chemist, according to his GGC profile. At Princeton, his interests turned to applying chemistry towards developing renewable fuels.

He earned his first assistant professor position at University of Texas at Arlington. Gluick found himself in Georgia during the recession as he briefly worked for the Army Forensics Division. He and the Army did not get along, so that was that, the profile says

Gluick then entered the hallways of GGC where he says, "he has great colleagues and is enjoying himself, but working too hard. It is possible, he still thinks he is twenty years old."