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Inside this issue:
Dr. Miguel West
1-4
Dr. Todd
Lavery’s Mission
5
ACS Research
Award
6
Dr. Jason
Bodzin Update
7
Match Day 2013
7
WSSS Dues
8
WSU Monthly
Conferences
9
WSSS
10-11
Dr. Miguel S. West was
born and raised on the
south side of Chicago. His
father, an electrical engineer, and his mother separated when he was young.
Consequently, he and his
one older brother along
with his four younger sisters
were raised in the public
housing projects in Chicago.
The public housing projects
throughout all of our great
cities are known for violence, elicit drugs, dangerous gangs, and poverty. His
mom worked as a keypunch
operator for one of the
many data agencies in Chicago. This was before the
modern computer age when
data had to be entered by
hand onto keypunch cards,
which were later transferred by hand into computers. The electrical transfer
age had not yet arrived.
After raising her six children,
Mom went back to DePaul
University in Chicago where
she finished her degree in
social work and serviced the
State of Illinois Social Services for the next 25 years.
Miguel attended the Chicago public school system
where, at an early age, he
decided that he wanted to
be a doctor. His earliest
mentors came from televi-
sion, where he admired the
works of Dr. Kildare and the
subsequent Kildare imitators, namely, Dr. Ben Casey,
Dr. Trapper John, and Dr.
Marcus Welby. He became
mesmerized by how these
television doctors dedicated
their lives to helping others.
About the fourth grade,
Miguel learned that many of
the neighborhood guys
were skillful at drawing various types of artwork; he
often played basketball with
these
budding
artists.
About this time, he took
copies of the human body
from the World Book Encyclopedia (those plastic pages) over to the basketball
court, so that between
games, he would have his
buddies recreate the pictures from the World Book.
He would then write in the
names for the various organs and memorized them.
When Mom’s friends came
over, he would take out the
pictures with his labels in
order to impress them. He
remembers that he was
about 9 years old when he
used to do this.
Following
grammar
school, Miguel entered the
Lindblom Technical High
School in Chicago, which
specialized in mathematics
and science,
similar to the
Cass
Technical
High
School in Detroit. Miguel
was gifted as
an
athlete Dr. Miguel West
and starred in both football
and basketball while at Lindblom.
Sadly, Lindblom
Technical High School did
not have the outstanding
teams that Cass Technical
High School in Detroit is
known for. Miguel was agile
and speedy, which helped
him play free safety on the
football team and shooting
guard on the basketball
team. He recalls playing
against a running back
named Tony Cofield, who
could run the 100 yard dash
in 9.4 seconds. Like today, a
major aspect of inner-city
sports
(and
suburban
sports) has to do with talking or jiving as much as playing. Miguel told Tony that
every time he touched the
ball, he would be there to
tackle him. Needless to say,
they encountered each other many times during the
game.
Miguel probably
remembers having overrun
him on a wide sweep as
Tony was heading down the
sidelines. Unfortunately,
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Lindblom lost the game 2 to 0 when frustrated, because all of the kids that he
their quarterback got caught in the end saw in the outpatient clinic had cough,
zone for a safety.
fever, stuffy nose, and diarrhea. Everybody was treated the same way; they
During that game a coach from the
even had pre-printed prescriptions for
University of Michigan named Dave
Tylenol, Amoxicillin (the pink stuff) and a
Brown was present in order to recruit
decongestant. His pediatric experience
Tony Cofield for the U of M. While he
was not much better on the in-service
was there, he recognized the skills posrotation, since there were eight students
sessed by Miguel and offered him a
who had to fight over an average of six
scholarship to play football at the U of
patients. During his surgical rotation,
M. When Miguel set out for the U of M,
however, he rotated at the U of M Hospihe was quite scared. Not because of the
tal in Ann Arbor, where he had the opfootball challenge but rather because his
portunity to be taught by such giants as
teachers from Lindblom had told him
Dr. Norm Thompson, Dr. Jim Stanley, and
that he was the first Lindblom student to
Dr. Bob Bartlett. He had strong interns
attend the U of M and, therefore, he had
who recognized Miguel’s ambition and
to perform well, so that other students
allowed him to put in many central lines.
who would apply to the U of M in the
During his senior year of medical school,
future would get accepted. Miguel
Miguel knew that he was going to be a
needn’t have worried, since the training
future pediatric surgeon, which would
he received at Lindblom left him in good
allow him to combine his love for surgery
stead for a very successful academic
with caring for young people. He had the
performance at the U of M. By the time
privilege of rotating with Dr. Arnold
Miguel graduated, there were three adCoran and Dr. Michael Klein, the latter
ditional students who had been acceptbecoming the long-time chairman of Peed to the U of M from Lindblom.
diatric Surgery at WSU. He even pubMiguel’s football career at the U of M lished his second paper with Dr. Klein as a
was not as successful. His competitors letter to the editor of the journal
on the gridiron included Dwight Hicks, “Lancet,” discussing bowel sounds.
James Pickens, and Scott Jolly, all outFollowing his medical school training,
standing athletes and competing for the
Miguel went back home to Chicago,
same position. Miguel, wisely, did not
where he began his surgical residency at
want to take the option of being “red
the University of Illinois. This also gave
shirted” with the result that he played
him the opportunity to take care of many
sparingly each Saturday. He eventually
very ill patients at the Cook County Hosleft the team after his third year. During
pital, where Miguel was born. Dr. West
these years, however, he continued to
had a great internship year. He recalls
excel in the classroom and was accepted
doing a hernia with the famous Dr. Lloyd
to the U of M Medical School.
Nyhus, who was always referred recurMiguel enjoyed working with children rent hernias from surgeons from all over
and knew that he was going to be a pedi- the Chicago area. Dr. Nyhus was a longatrician. Unfortunately, when he did his time chairman of Surgery at the Universipediatric rotation at the old Wayne ty of Illinois. Dr. Olga Jonnason, who latCounty General Hospital (WCGH), he was er was the chairman of Surgery at the
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Ohio State University, served as his advisor and provided his first exposure to
transplantation. One of his senior residents was Dr. L.D. Britt, who later would
become the president of the American
College of Surgeons, the American Surgical Association, and the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. Dr.
Miguel West was truly exposed to many
surgical giants during his medical school
and residency training years.
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Dr. West’s mother smiles with her son,
Miguel, and daughter-in-law, Sandra
Sandra and Miguel West on vacation
in the Caribbean
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Following his residency training, Dr.
West went to the Maimonides Hospital
in Brooklyn to do research with the famous T.S. Ravikumar. He was investigating cytokines, namely, CD3 and others in relationship to surgery, trauma,
and oncologic diseases. When Dr. Ravikumar decided to go back to the Harvard Medical School in 1985, Miguel
returned to Chicago. During the fourth
year of his residency, Miguel rotated at
The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto
in pediatric surgery. Dr. Robert Filler
was the chairman, and Dr. West had the
opportunity of rotating with the wellknown Drs. Ein and Shandling. Dr. West
recalls that this was a very rewarding
rotation. He remembers the challenge
of treating a 3-year-old who was transferred in for recurrent bowel obstruction. The youngster had been injured
about 10 days prior and was unable to
tolerate diet. The CAT showed a midlevel bowel obstruction. At the time of
laparotomy, he found that the small
bowel was caught between the child’s
vertebrae. They had to get the orthopedic surgeon into the operating room in
order to distract the vertebral bodies so
that the small bowel, which was strangulated, could be reduced, resected, and
re-anastomosed. The youngster was
being held by his mother, who was secured with a seatbelt when the motor
vehicle collision occurred. The surgical
team theorized that, when the car came
to a sudden stop, the vertebral body
separated in order to entrap the small
intestine and then returned to their normal position when the child was thrown
back by the seatbelt. Dr. West thought
that this had to be reported until he
found out that Dr. Ein had reported on a
similar case 20 years earlier.
One of Miguel’s next rotations was on
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the transplantation service at the University of Chicago, where he worked with Dr.
Frank Stuart, Dr. Christopher Brolsech,
and Dr. Jean Edmond. Miguel was a
member of the first surgical team that
was able to successfully transplant split
livers into two children that survived. At
that time, it was unexpected for both
children to survive a split-liver transplantation. This involvement in this early success stimulated Miguel’s interest in transplantation. This also allowed him to combine his surgical skills with the treatment
of children.
Following his residency training and
specialty training, Miguel entered into a
surgical practice in Dayton, Ohio doing
general and vascular surgery. Although
he was quite successful in this practice,
he did not have self-satisfaction; he eventually realized that he did not want to
spend his life doing general and vascular
surgery and wondering what would have
happened if he had gone into transplantation. Stimulated by these feelings, he
contacted Dr. Stuart who had moved on
to Northwestern University in Chicago to
find out if there were any positions open
in transplantation. Dr. Stuart made some
inquiries, so that shortly thereafter, Dr.
West received an invitation from Dr.
Sutherland at the University of Minnesota to become a trainee in their worldfamous transplant program. Dr. West
quickly closed his practice and moved to
Minnesota where he learned to do liver,
pancreas, small bowel, and kidney transplants. During these years, he had a
great experience, wrote 22 peer review
papers, two book chapters, and did much
research on xeno-islet transplantation
which, Miguel believes, will one day cure
diabetes.
Following this very rewarding stay at
the University of Minnesota, Miguel
moved to the Howard University and
performed the first pancreatic transplant at that institution. He is one of the
few African-American transplant surgeons. Following a very successful career at Howard, Miguel moved back to
the Midwest and accepted a position in
the transplantation program in the department of Surgery at WSU. Miguel
has been with us since 2001. He has
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Dr. West enjoys the time he spends
with his nieces and nephews
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many kin in Southeast Michigan. During
the past 12 years, Dr. West has become
recognized for his technical skills, his
patient care, and his dedicated efforts to
educate the residents and medical students with whom he comes in contact.
He is currently the prime mover in the
WSU/DMC transplant program. He has
also been quite active in the research
activities, with many of his publications
having occurred since he joined the WSU
faculty. Dr. West hopes to make a difference by stimulating more AfricanAmericans to be organ donors or recipients.
During June of 2011, Miguel had a major scare that almost put a stop to his
career. He was driving north on Woodward Avenue toward Birmingham after a
typical 100-hour week of many consultations and several transplantations.
Everything felt good, and he was satisfied that this had been a very successful
week. He noticed that the car was not
behaving properly and would not stay
between the white lines outlining each
lane. He thought maybe it had something to do with the brakes, which had
been repaired one day earlier, and wondered whether the repairman had not
tightened one of the bolts. He pulled off
to the side of the road and when he got
out of the car, he felt lightheaded. After
resting there for about 20 minutes listening to music, he got out and rechecked the car, and everything seemed
to be okay. When he got out of the car a
second time, he could hardly stand up.
Being a typical surgeon, he avoided calling EMS but rather drove back to the
hospital in order to be examined. He
determined that if he felt okay by the
time he got back to the hospital, he
would simply turn around and go home.
Since he had a bottle of soda pop in the
car, he decided he better drink it, because surely they would make him NPO
when he got to the hospital. He noticed
that when he tried to drink the soda with
his right hand, he could not lift the can
easily, so he decided to drink the soda
with his left hand. He then noticed that
he had no positional sense in his right leg.
He found that he was hitting the gas pedal too hard and then would have to
quickly hit the brake pedal, which would
almost throw him through the windshield. Needless to say, he drove about
10 miles an hour to get back to the hospital. When he got to the hospital he got
all of his books and computer out of the
car and found that he was staggering to
get into the emergency department. He
immediately had a CAT scan and MRI.
When he exited the MRI at 11:30 p.m.,
he knew he was in trouble because the
neuro ICU attending physician was in the
MRI suite. He was admitted to the ICU.
By the next morning, he could not move
anything on the right side, and his speech
was not normal, although it seemed normal to Miguel. His right eye was tearing,
and his right face was droopy. After a
week in the ICU, his family took him
back to the Rehabilitation Institute of
Chicago, which is part of the Northwestern University. This turned out to be a
six-month journey with three of those
months spent in a wheelchair. Miguel
was determined that he would make it
back completely. After he got movement and feeling in his right hand two
months later, Jeremy, a circulator at the
Harper operating room, sent him instruments and his therapist started to practice with him for hours and hours each
day. Six months later, he was back in
the operating room observing and doing
small cases with supervision. Eight
months later, he was working full-time
again. Miguel is very thankful, since he
loves surgery. He extends his thanks
and well-wishes to all of the residents
and staff who helped him get back on
his feet.
Dr. Miguel West, in 1984, married his
lovely bride, Sandra, who was known to
him from the time that she was six years
old. They even published a story about
Miguel and Sandra in the Detroit Free
Press in 2004. She has served as an assistant controller for the City of Chicago
and has managed the finances of both
O’Hare and Midway Airports in Chicago.
Miguel and Sandra have eight goddaughters and three godsons. Miguel
and Sandra can be reached at
[email protected].
Dr. Miguel West with his two grandmothers. His
maternal grandmother (L) is 95 years old and he
enjoys taking her fishing in the summer months;
his paternal grandmother (R) who is 99 years old
looks forward to going to church on Sunday with
Miguel when he is visiting home in Chicago.
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Dr. Todd Lavery’s Mission
Dr. Todd Lavery (WSUGS 2012)
is a missionary surgeon at Tenwek Hospital in Kenya. His new
position finds him caring for a
myriad of unusual surgical problems presenting in patients of all
ages. This past week, he repaired
a pediatric hernia, resected a
cystic hygroma, performed a superficial parotidectomy, placed
split-thickness skin grafts for a
lower extremity burn, and did a
distal gastrectomy, hemorrhoidectomy, and surgery on a retroperitoneal mass. He is very thankful
for the broad surgical training that
prepared him for this huge variety
of surgical challenges.
Todd is also involved in developing a trauma service and enhancing the residency training program. He is involved in the training of ten Kenyan general surgical
residents, or two residents per
year, for each of the five years of
training. They are creating a trauma service and have found out
how difficult it is to accurately col-
Dr. Todd Lavery and , his bride, Jen,
after climbing Mt. Motigo in Kenya
lect data on standardized forms
and then have it properly entered
into a trauma program registry.
He is currently teaching his residents how to calculate the Injury
Severity Score (ISS).
They are
treating over 200 injured patients
per month and have been utilizing
a locally developed ISS but want
to convert to the international version of ISS, so that they can do
future comparisons with other hospitals.
Dr. Lavery has been busy since
his arrival. Besides the operations
that he performed this past week,
he has removed giant thyroid disease for goiter, elevated depressed
skull fractures, performed tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies,
done a Heller myotomy, performed
lots of open cholecystectomies,
debulked for intestinal worms, did
a Whipple operation, performed
hepatic cystectomy for hydatid
disease, superficial parotidectomy,
gastrectomies, esophagectomy,
fundoplications, and many sig-
moid volvuluses.
Needless to say,
he is working long
hours and is no
longer
impaired
by the 80-hour
work week.
On
his first night of
call, he treated a
Dr. Todd Lavery
youngster
who
had a penetrating neck wound
from a stick.
This caused a
through-and-through injury to the
common carotid artery, which
was resected and primarily repaired. Todd was sent there by
an organization called Samaritan’s Purse. He thinks that this
is a good name and reminds him
about the biblical story when the
Good Samaritan asked Jesus,
“Who is my neighbor?” Jesus
responded by telling the story of
the two religious men who
passed by a man lying on the
road after being beaten before a
stranger stopped and helped.
Todd feels grateful for the opportunity to help people get back on
their feet and grateful for the opportunity to educate some of Kenya’s brightest future surgeons so
that they may do the same. Todd
extends his best wishes to everyone in Detroit. He can be reached
at [email protected].
On Dr. Lavery’s first night call he took
care of an 8 year old patient who suffered a penetrating injury to the neck
after falling on a stick
General surgery residents
at Tenwek Hospital in
Tenwek Hospital in Bomet, Kenya
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An aerial view of Tenwek
New Education Residential
Building, Bomet, Kenya
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Dr. Abubaker Ali Receives the American
College of Surgeons Research Award
The American College of Surgeons (ACS)
has an annual resident competition for the
best clinical and best basic science papers.
Each of the residents participating in the
competition present first at their State Chapter meetings. Dr. Abubaker Ali (WSUGS
2015) presented a paper at the Michigan
Chapter of the ACS Committee on Trauma
meeting entitled, “The Stress Hormone Epinephrine Increases IGA Transport Across Respiratory Epithelial Surfaces.” This was sponsored by Dr. Larry Diebel (WSU/GS 1980/86).
Dr. Ali received fist prize in the basic science
category at a state level, thereby, allowing
him to compete at the ACS Region V level,
which includes many of the Midwest states.
Dr. Ali also won the competition at the Region
V participation, so that he and the winners
from the other regions were able to compete
at the spring meeting of the ACS Committee
on Trauma which, this year, was held in San
Diego, California. Dr. Ali was the winner at the
national competition and received a plaque in
recognition of his excellent basic research paper. Dr. Ali is thankful for the opportunity to
meet with many of the leading trauma surgeons in American and is especially thankful
to his sponsor, Dr. Larry Diebel.
Dr. Abubaker Ali with Dr. Sarita Eastman and Dr. Brent Eastman, current President of the ACS
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Jason and the Golden Fleece
Dr. Jason Bodzin celebrated St. Patrick’s Day at the Dossa Hospital, where
he is receiving stem cell infusion for amyotropic lateral sclerosis. Jason was
hydrated by intravenous fluids and then received his modified stem cells by
intravenous route, intramuscular thigh injections, and direct return to the
spinal canal. The procedure went well and, shortly thereafter, he enjoyed
dinner of schnitzel and carrot pudding with family members and grandkids.
His physician, Dr. Orr, stated that the cells looked good, and they froze some
of them for possible future infusion. As Jason says, “There are no promises,
but we all hope that there is a good result.”
On Sunday, March 22, Palm Sunday, Jason had the opportunity to visit the
Western Wall in Jerusalem. This is part of the Old City, so that it took some
time and effort to actually get there. The walk exhausted Jason but, as he says, it was well
worth it. Jason and his family had the opportunity to see many Christians with their palm
branches walking through the streets. He contemplated on how it was such a wonderful thing
to see three different religions with a common origin celebrating together without any conflict. He wishes that this could be true all over the world. Jerusalem is very busy at this time,
since Passover and Easter occur at almost the same time. Jason and his family spent the
Passover holiday in a resort near the Golan Heights.
Dr. Jason Bodzin
Jason extends his best wishes to the extended surgical clan members and thanks them for
their prayers and support. You can send your good wishes to Jason at
[email protected].
WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE SENIOR
MEDICAL STUDENTS?
Each March the senior medical students throughout America find out where they’re going
to be spending the next many years! Match Day was successful for WSU, as 99% of the graduating seniors successfully matched at one of their choices. As is typical for the WSU graduates, most elected to stay in the great state of Michigan with the vast majority of those remaining in Southeast Michigan. This will continue the pattern whereby most citizens of Michigan are cared for by WSU graduates. There were 33 of 274 applicants who will remain with
the DMC/WSU complex and an additional five WSU students selecting WSU programs not
affiliated with the DMC. Later, Dr. Tyburski will be releasing the information on those students who will become a part of our WSU/DMC surgical programs. All of the current residents and alumni wish them the best.
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Wayne State Surgical Society
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2013 Dues Notice
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WSU MONTLY CNFERENCES
2013
Death & Complications
Conference
Every Wednesday from 7-8
Didactic Lectures - 8 am
Kresge Auditorium
Harper Hospital
Wednesday, April 3
“End Tidal CO2 and End Points of Resuscitation”
James Tyburski, M.D.
WSU Department of Surgery
Wednesday, April 10
“Paraesophageal Hernia”
Yanira Perez, M.D.
“Esophageal Perforations”
Rebecca Bachusz, M.D.
Chief Residents, WSU Department of Surgery
Wednesday, April 17
TO BE DETERMINED
WSU Department of Surgery
Wednesday, April 24
“Coller Day Presentation by Surgical Residents”
WSU Department of Surgery
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Missing Emails
Over the years the WSU Department of Surgery has lost touch with many of its alumni. If you know the email, address, or phone number of the following WSU Department of Surgery Residency Program graduates please email
us at [email protected] with their information so that we can get them on the distribution list for the WSU
Department of Surgery Alumni Monthly Email Report.
Ram Agrawal (1974)
Abdul A. Hassan (1971)
Jerome P. Pucelik (1966)
Peter Y. Wong (2002)
Mohammad Ali (1973)
William C. Huettner (2008)
Everton Quadros (1968)
Shane Yamane (2005)
David B. Allen (1992)
S. Amjad Hussain (1970)
Ami Raafat (1998)
Chungie Yang (2005)
R. Gil Altman (2005)
Rose L. Jumah (2006)
Kevin Radecki (2001)
Hossein A. Yazdy (1970)
Tayful R. Ayalp (1979)
R. Kambhampati (2003)
Sudarshan R. Reddy (1984)
Lester S. Young (2008)
Amy Bandy (1994)
Aftab Khan (1973)
Edgar Roman (1971)
Lawrence S. Zachary (1985)
Rick Becker (1997)
Mark Leiser (1996)
Renato G. Ruggiero (1994)
Paul Zidel (1986)
Robert C. Birks (1970)
Samuel D. Lyons (1988)
Parvid Sadjadi (1971)
Juan C. Calzetta (1982)
Russell Marion (1972)
Samson P. Samuel (1996)
Sebastian J. Campagna (1969)
Dean R. Marson (1997)
Knavery D. Scaff (2003)
Kuan-Cheng Chen (1976)
Syed A. Mehmood (2007)
Steven C. Schueller (1974)
Elizabeth Colaiuta (2001)
Mehul M. Mehta (1992)
Anand G. Shah (2005)
Fernando I. Colon (1991)
Toby Meltzer (1987)
Anil Shetty (2008)
David Davis (1984)
Roberto Mendez (1997)
Scott Silver (2007)
Teoman Demir (1996)
Mark D. Morasch (1998)
Chanderdeep Singh (2002)
Judy A. Emanuele (1997)
Daniel J. Olson (1993)
Raj A. Sukhnandan (1966)
Lawrence J. Goldstein (1993)
Ellen Beth Ozolins (2000)
D. Sukumaran (1972)
David M. Gordon (1993)
David Packer (1998)
David G. Tse (1997)
Raghuram Gorti (2002)
Daniel S. Paley (2003)
Peter VandenBerg (1986)
Karin Haji (1973)
Y. Park (1972)
Christopher N. Vashi (2007)
Michelle Hardaway (1989)
Bhavik G. Patel (2004)
Carlos M. Villafane (1990)
Morteza Hariri (1970)
Michael M. Peikoff (1970)
Larry A. Wolk (1984)
WAYNE STATE SURGICAL SOCIETY
The Wayne State Surgical Society (WSSS) was established during the tenure of Dr. Walt as the
chairman of the Department of Surgery. WSSS was designed to create closer contact between
the current faculty and residents with the former resident members in order to create a living
family of all of the WSU Department of Surgery. The WSSS also supports department activities.
Charter/Life Membership in the WSSS is attained by a donation of $1,000 per year for ten years
or $10,000 prior to ten years. Annual membership is attained by a donation of $200 per year.
WSSS supports a visiting lecturer each fall and co-sponsors the annual reception of the department at the annual meeting of the American College of Surgeons.
Dr. Lisa Flynn
(WSU/GS/VS1993/98/99) passed the baton of presidency to Dr. Mark A. Herman (WSU/GS
1994/2001) at the WSSS Gathering during the American College of Surgeons meeting in October 2012. Members of the WSSS are listed on the next page. Dr. Herman hopes that all former
residents will become lifetime members of the WSSS and participate in the annual sponsored
lectureship and the annual reunion at the American College of Surgeons meeting.
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Members of the Wayne State Surgical Society
Charter-Life Members
Ahn, Dean
Colon, Fernando I.
(Deceased)
Lucas, Charles E.
Stassinopoulos, Jerry
Allaben, Robert
Davidson, Scott B.
Herman, Mark A.
Montenegro, Carlos E.
vonBerg, Vollrad J.
Ames, Elliot L.
Flynn, Lisa M.
Huebl, Herbert C.
Narkiewicz, Lawrence
Washington, Bruce C.
Amirikia, Kathryn C.
Fromm, Stefan H.
Johnson, Jeffrey R.
Novakovic, Rachel
Auer, George
Fromm, David G
Johnson, Pamela
Rector, Frederick
Walt, Alexander
(Deceased)
Bassett, Joseph
Galpin, Peter A.
Kovalik, Simon G.
Sarin, Susan
Bouwman, David
Gerrick Stanley
Lange, William (Deceased)
Shapiro, Brian
Clink, Douglas
Grifka Thomas J.
Lim, John J.
Smith, Daniel
Weaver, Donald
Wilson, Robert F.
Wood, Michael H.
Members of the Wayne State Surgical Society
Antoniolli, Anita
Heartwell, Barbara
Kaderabek, Douglas J.
Smith, Randall W.
Tennenberg, Steven
Williams, Mallory
Zoellner, Steven M.
AN OPERATION A YEAR FOR WSU
January 1, 2013 through
December 31, 2013
Bambach, Gregory A.
The WSU department of Surgery has instituted a new group of alumni who are remembering their training by donating the proceeds of one operation a year to the department. Those who join this new effort will be recognized herein as annual contributors.
We hope that all of you will remember the department by donating one operation, regardless of difficulty or reimbursement, to the department to help train your replacements. Please send you donation to the Wayne State Surgical Society in care of Dr.
Charles E. Lucas at Detroit Receiving Hospital, 4201 St. Antoine Street (Room 2V),
Detroit, MI, 48201.