Dr. Glassenberg is a graduate of Northwestern University (B.A.).
He obtained his medical degree from The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine and performed his residency at The McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University where he also had a fellowship in Cardiac Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine.
In 2002, Dr. Glassenberg was the recipient of the SOAP Teaching Award.
His areas of academic interest include: difficult intubation, virtual reality for teaching intubation, computer modeling of oxygen exchange across the placenta, failed intubation in different surgical populations, and incidence of emergency hysterectomy.