Surgery

Office: 6th Floor, University Health Center; 313-577-5013
Chairperson: Donald Weaver
Website: http://www.med.wayne.edu/surgery

Professors

Frank Baciewicz, Marc Basson, David L. Bouwman, Lawrence Diebel, Scott Dulchavsky, Scott Gruber, Michael D. Klein, Anna M. Ledgerwood, Charles E. Lucas, Robert M. Mentzer Jr., Vishwanath Sardesai, Allen Silbergleit, Yvan J. Silva, Larry W. Stephenson, Choichi Sugawa, James Tyburski, Henry Walters, Donald W. Weaver, Robert F. Wilson

Clinical Professors

Agustin Arbulu, O. William Brown, Mehdi Hakimi, Waldo Cain, Adrian Kantrowitz, Andris Kazmers, Mark Mattos, Juan Parodi, Fredrick Rector, Homer Smathers, Michael Wood

Associate Professors

Chenicheri Balakrishnan, Arthur Carlin, Kenneth Granke, Eti Gursel, M. Salik Jahania, Mary Ann Kosir, Julian Losanoff, Madhu Prasad, Charles Shanley, Christopher Steffes, Steven Tennenberg, Anil Wali, Miguel West

Clinical Associate Professors

Susan E. Adelman, Federico A. Arcari, Ingida Asfaw, Joseph S. Bassett, Jason H. Bodzin, Joseph Buck, Michael Busuito, Elizabeth Dawe, Donald Ditmars, Thomas Flake, Darla Granger, J. William Gross, Keith Hinshaw, Khatchadour Hamamdjian, Michael Jacobs, Ali Kafi, Larry Lloyd, Robert J. Lucas, Vijay Mittal, Eduardo Phillips, Krishna Sawhney, Thomas Siegel, Joe G. Talbert, Narendra Tyagi

Assistant Professors

Jugpal S. Arneja, Ramesh B. Batchu, Alfred Baylor, Cassann Blake, Shannon Bongers, Marc L. Cullen, Scott Laker, Scott Langenburg, Arlene Rozzelle, Ilan S. Rubinfeld, Walter A. Salwen, Masood Shammas, Christina Shanti, Aamir Siddiqui, Hiroe Shiratsuchi, Paul Stockman, John Webber, Matthew Weiner, Michael White

Clinical Assistant Professors

King Ang, Dimitrios Apostolou, Zacarias G. Asuncion, Jr., Roberta Barbosa, John Barnwell, Carl Bergen, Tamer Boules, Lauran Bryan, Luis Camero, Hyun Chang, Chairat Chomchai, Reza Dabir, Elango Edhayan, Lorenzo Ferguson, Lisa Flynn, Maurice Frankel, Paul Friedman, Gary Goodman, Michelle Hardaway, Abdelkader Hawasli, John M. Hartzell, Michael Heuton, Joseph Hildebrand, Robert J. Holmes, John Hramiec, Hubert Huebel, John A. Ingold, William Kestenberg, Ramachandra Kolachalam, Yash Lakra, JoAnne Levitan, Michael Lodish, James Lulek, Hayward C. Maben, Jeffery McFadden, Alasdair McKendrick, Ahem Meguid, Mehul Mehta, Michael Meininger, Andre Nunn, Paraskevi Orfanou, Ralph Pearlman, Shivana Prakash, Paul Rizzo, Jerry Rogers, Ilan Rubinfeld, Marc P. Sakwa, Michael J. Schenden, Donn Schroder, Kenneth Shaheen, Sumet Silapaswam, Allen Telmos, Edward Treisman, You-Wen Tsai, Oscar C. Tumacder, Fuad Turfah, Satish C. Vyas, Bruce Washington, James Whitten, A. Neal Wilson, Leroy Wirthlin, Steven M. Wolf, Burton Zack

Instructor

Candace Moody

Clinical Instructors

Edward Burke, Ronald A. Rusko, Richard Singer

Adjunct Associate Professor

Steven Salley

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Howard Matthew

The main objectives of the Department of Surgery are to relate the principles of the basic sciences to clinical practice and to impart the details of patient care in light of modern physiological and pharmacological knowledge. Emphasis is on understanding of the deranged metabolic processes occasioned by surgically treatable disease and physical trauma, the translation of these into recognizable symptoms and signs and the rational correlation of therapy with these basic disturbances. Surgery is taught as only one aspect of patient care and emphasis is placed on the relationship of the surgeon to other personnel who form part of the health care team. As part of their education, students are part of the resident care team and are assigned patients for study.

With the unusually broad spectrum of diseases treatable by surgical methods present in the Wayne State University affiliated hospitals, students have contact with oncological, vascular and gastrointestinal problems. Students obtain a wide clinical experience at Detroit Receiving and Harper University Hospitals. During their third year, they may also select to rotate to one of the other affiliated hospitals such as the Veterans' Administration, Sinai-Grace, Beaumont, Henry Ford, and North Oakland Medical Center.

Students are encouraged to participate in experimental and clinical research programs with staff supervision during their senior elective periods and summer vacations. The program is designed to provide the student with the opportunity to develop career interests in surgery at an early stage in their education.