Surgery

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List of Professors

Name	Years at Michigan	Position
Jack Lapides	1950 - 1984	Professor of Surgery -Urology Chair of Urology
Aaron Isreal Vinik	1978 - 1990	Professor of Internal Medicine and General Surgery
Alan C. Peterson	1981 - 1982	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Alan M. Yahanda	1995 - 2000	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Alexander Burgess Vial	1946 - 1963	Associate Professor of Surgery Instructor in Bacteriology Director Pasteur Institute
Alfred E. Chang	1988 - 2022	Professor of Surgery
Alfred Scott Warthin	1891 - 1903	Professor of Pathology Director of the Pathological Laboratory
Ali Farouk Mallat	2008 - 2014	Assistant Professor
Alpheus Benning Crosby	1869 - 1871	Professor of Surgery
Alvise Bernabei	2010 - 2015	Assistant Professor of Cardiac Surgery
Ananias C. Diokno	1971 - 1984	Clinical Professor of Surgery
Ariel Barkan	1983 - 2021	Professor of Internal Medicina & Neurosurgery
Arnold G. Coran	1974 - 2007	Professor of Pediatric Surgery Chair Department of Pediatric Surgery
Barry Steinberg	1992 - 1997	Assistant Professor of Dentistry Assistant Professor of Oral Surgery
Beverly D. Ulrich	1999 - 2014	Professor of Kinesiology & Neurosurgery Research Professor Center for Human Growth & Development Dean of School of Kinesiology 2000-2008
Bruce R. Nelson	1990 - 1995	Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Surgery and Otorhinolaryngology
Calvin B. Ernst	1965 - 1972	Associate Professor of Surgery
Cameron Haight	1931 - 1970	Associate Professor of Surgery
Camille T  Flotte	1957 - 1959	Assistant Professor of Surgery Assistant Professor of Postgraduate Medicine
Carl Egbert Badgley	1920 - 1964	Professor Emeritus of Surgery Chair of Orthopedic Surgery
Carl Walter Eberbach	1921 - 1928	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Carol J. Bennett	1983 - 1987	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Carroll M. Harmon	1994 - 2000	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Chantal Parenteau	2012 - 2014	Research Assistant Professor
Charles Beylard de Nancrede	1889 - 1917	Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery
Charles F. Frey	1964 - 1976	Professor of Surgery
Charles G. Child III	1959 - 1978	Professor Emeritus of Surgery
Charles J. Shanley	1996 - 1998	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Chia-Ying Lin	2001 - 2014	Assistant Professor of Neurosurery Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
Christine L. Lau	2005 - 2007	Assistant Professor of Thoracic Surgery
Christopher Roark	2013 - 2016	Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Cyrenus Garritt Darling	1890	Professor of Surgery, Oral Pathology and Surgery
Dan Jayne Bulmer	1940 - 1943	Instructor in Surgery Assistant Professor of Military Sciences
Daniel B. Hinshaw	1987 - 2016	Professor of Surgery
Daniel C Hunter	1954 - 1960	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Darrell A. Campbell Jr.	1978 - 2016	Professor of Surgery
David A. August	1989 - 1994	Assistant Professor of Surgery
David E. Misek	1994 - 2016	Research Associate Professor
David G. Beer	1991 - 2019	Professor of Radiation Oncology Professor of Surgery Research Professor of Thoracic Surgery
David J. Dries	1998 - 1999	Professor of Surgery
David P. Wood Jr	2002 - 2012	Professor of Urology George F and Sandy G Valassis Professor of Urology
David Steinmuller	1984 - 1988	Professor of Immunobiology in Department of Surgery Professor of Epidemiology
Dennis P. Horan	1976 - 1979	Associate Professor of Surgery
Dheeraj Gandhi	2002 - 2008	Assistant Professor of Radiology Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Diane M. Simeone	1995 - 2017	Lazar J, Greenfield Professor of Surgery Professor of Surgery
Donald A. Ross	1989 - 2000	Associate Professor of Surgery Associate Professor of Otolaryngology
Donald C. Dafoe	1982 - 1987	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Douglas M. Behrendt	1971 - 1986	Professor of Thoracic Surgery
Duane Freier	1969 - 1980	Associate Professor of Surgery
Earl F. Wolfman Jr.	1960 - 1966	Associate Professor of Surgery
Edgar Adolph Kahn	1929 - 1971	Professor of Neurosurgery
Edward Ellis III	1982 - 1988	Assistant Professor of Dentistry and Surgery
Edward J. Hill	1963	Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
Edward L. Bove	1985 - 2021	Professor of Cardiac Surgery & Pediatrics
Edward S. Tank	1968 - 1973	Associate Professor of Surgery
Emerick Desiderius Szilagyi	1970 - 1983	Clinical Professor of Surgery
Enrique Criado-Pallares	2005 - 2016	John R. Pfeifer Collegiate Professor of Vascular Surgery Professor of Surgery
Eric J. Devaney	1999 - 2012	Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery
Eugene Breckenridge Potter	1928 - 1937	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Eustace Golladay	1995 - 2008
Evan J. Kass	1976 - 1980	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Flavian M. Lupinetti	1990 - 1993	Assistant Professor or Surgery
Flemming Carrow	1889 - 1904	Professor of Ophthalmic and Aural Surgery Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology Chair of Ophthalmic and Aural Surgery and Clinical Ophthalology
Fredrick A. Coller	1917 - 1958	Professor Emeritus of Surgery
Ganesh R. Deshmukh	1994 - 1997	Clinical Assistant Professor II of Surgery
Geneva M. Omann	1987 - 2004	Associate Professor of Surgery & Biological Chemistry
George B. Mychaliska	2004 - 2005	Assistant Professor of Surgery & Obstetrics & Gynecology
George D. Zuidema	1960 - 1964 1984 - 1994	Professor of Surgery Vice Provost for Medical Affairs 1984-1994
George E. Block	1958 - 1960	Assistant Professor of Surgery Assistant Professor of Postgraduate Medicine
George Hammond	1934 - 1946	Assistant Professor of Surgery
George Hugh Lawrence	1955 - 1957	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Gerald A. O'Connor	1958 - 2000	Associate Profesor of Surgery Team Physician of Michigan Athletic Department 1964-2000
Gerald B. Zelenock	1978 - 1999	Professor of Surgery
Gerhardt H. Bauer	1961 - 1964	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Gilbert R. Upchurch Jr	1999 - 2010	Professor of Vascular Surgery Leland Ira Doan Research Professor of Vascular Surgery
Gregory P. Graziano	1989 - 2014	Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
H. Burton Grossman	1977 - 1994	Professor of Surgery
Harry P. Koo	1995 - 2000	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Helen A. Pass	1997 - 2000	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Henry King Ransom	1926 - 1968	Professor of Surgery Chair Department of Surgery
Herbert Sloan	1950 - 1987	Professor of Thoracic Surgery Chief of Clinical Affairs at University of Michigan Hospitals Chair Department of Thoracic Surgery
Howard M. Sandler	1989 - 2008	Professor of Radiation Oncology Newman Family Professor of Radiation Oncology Professor of Urology
Hugh Cabot	1919 - 1930	Professor of Surgery Director Department of Medical School Dean of the Medical School
Ira Dean Loree	1902 - 1920	Associate Professor of Genito-Urinary Surgery
Irving Feller	1959 - 1990	Professor of Surgery
Jack L. Cronenwett	1980 - 1985	Associate Professor of Surgery
Jai K. Prasad	1976 - 1991	Assistant Professor of Surgery
James A. Knol	1980 - 2016	Associate Professor of Surgery
James A. Taren	1943 - 1997	Professor of Surgery
James C. Stanley	1972 - 2016	Professor of Surgery Research Professor of Vascular Surgery
James G. Gurney	2005 - 2011	Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Communicable Diseases Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery
James J Mulay	1995 - 2003	Professor of Internal Medicine Director, Immunology Training Program Professor of Surgery
James R. Mackenzie	1979 - 1985	Associate Professor of Surgery
Jamie Dananberg	1986	Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine - 1993
Jay K. Harness	1975 - 1989	Clinical Associate Professor II of Surgery
Jeremiah G. Turcotte	1963 - 2001	Professor of Surgery Chair Department of Surgery
Jessica Bensenhaver	2011 - 2016	Assistant Professor
Joe David Morris	1956	Professor of Surgery 1968 Clinical Professor of Surgery 1971
John Alexander	1920 - 1954	Professor of Surgery
John D. Birkmeyer	2004 - 2014	Professor of Surgery
John David Blaha	2002 - 2017	Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
John E. Niederhuber	1977 - 1987	Professor of General Surgery Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Adjunct Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
John F. Sweeney	1995 - 2001	Assistant Professor of Surgery
John L. Zeller	2008 - 2016	Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
John M. Park	1995 - 1997	Lecturer in Surgery
John R. Wesley	1977 - 1990	Associate Professor of Surgery
John Sutphin Tytus	1955	Assistant Professor of Surgery 1957
John Sylvester O’Connor	1950 - 1957	Associate Professor of Surgery
John T. Hayes	1956 - 1966	Associate Professor of Surgery
John W. Konnak	1969 - 2001	Professor of Surgery
John Yee	2000 - 2003	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Jon N Meliones	1989 - 1992	Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases Assistant Professor of Surgery
Jonathan I Greenfeld	1998 - 2000	Clinical Assistant Professor II of Surgery
Jorge L. Rodriguez	1995 - 1996	Associate Professor of Surgery
Joseph C. Cerny	1962 - 2005	Clinical Professor of Urology Surgery
Joseph E. Oesterling	1994 - 1997	Professor of Surgery
Joseph L. Lelli	1994 - 2000	Clinical Assistant Professor II of Surgery
Juan Valdivia	2009 - 2015	Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Karen S. Guice	1985 - 1991	Associate Professor of Surgery
Kathleen B. T. To	2011 - 2017	Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
Keith E. Cook	2002 - 2013	Research Associate Professor of Surgery Research Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Keith T. Oldham	1985 - 1991	Associate Professor of Surgery
Kenneth E. Jochim	1963 - 1980	Professor of Thoracic Surgery
Kenneth J. Pienta	1994 - 2013	Professor of Internal Medicine, Hematology/Oncology Professor of Urology
Kevin T. Nguyen	2010 - 2013	Assistant Professor
Kirk J. Wojno	1994 - 1998	Assistant Professor of Pathology and Surgery
Lawrence J. Marentette	1993 - 2020	Professor of Otolaryngology Professor of Neurosurgery
Lazar J. Greenfield	1987 - 2004	Professor of Surgery Chair Department of Surgery Frederick A. Coller Professor of Surgery
Leo George Upton	1970 - 2009	Professor of Dentistry Associate Professor of Oral Surgery
LeRoy Charles Abbott	1917 - 1923	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Leslie E. Quint	1986 - 2021	Professor of Radiology & Surgery
Lillian G. Dawes	2001 - 2007	Associate Professor of Surgery
Linda M. Graham	1983 - 2000	Professor of Surgery
Linnea Susan Hauge	2007 - 2010	Assistant Professor of Surgery Assistant Professor of Medical Education
Lisa A. Newman	2002 - 2015	Professor of Surgery
Lisa M. Colletti	1991 - 2015	Professor of Surgery Associate Dean & Director for Graduate Medical Education
Lloyd A. Jacobs	1989 - 2003	Professor of Surgery Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs
Louis A. Brunsting III	1991 - 1994	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Louis C. Argenta	1980 - 1988	Associate Professor of Surgery
Louis M. Messina	1986 - 1995	Associate Professor of Surgery
Louis Yglesias	1936 - 1937	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Mac C. Stirling	1987 - 1990	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Mahender Macha	2007 - 2018	Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery
Malcolm W. Marks	1986 - 1988	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Marion Spencer DeWeese	1950 - 1964	Associate Professor of Surgery
Mark A. Rubin	1998 - 2002	Associate Professor of Pathology and Surgery
Mark B. Orringer	1973 - 2015	Professor of Thoracic Surgery
Mark D. Iannettoni	1993 - 2003	Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery
Marvin M. Kirsh	1968 - 2005	Professor of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery
Mary E. Metrou	1999	Assistant Professor II of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases Clinical Assistant Professor II of Surgery
Mary Margaret Brandt	1997 - 2005	Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
Mary T. Hawn	1998 - 2000	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Matthew J. Eagleton	2003 - 2005	Assistant Professor of Vascular Surgery
Max M. Peet	1916 - 1949	Professor of Neurosurgery
Melanie G. Urbanchek	1992 - 2016	Research Associate Professor of Surgery Research Associate Professor Emerita
Meshach H. Newman	1971 - 1975 1981 - 2007	Clinical Professor of Surgery
Michael D. Klein	1980 - 1983	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Michael K. McLeod	1983 - 1994	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Michael L. Ritchey	1990 - 1993	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Michael W. Mulholland	1988 - 2023	Professor of Surgery
Moses Gunn	1850 - 1867	Professor of Anatomy and Surgery
Norman J. Betts	1999 - 2002	Associate Professor of Dentistry Associate Professor of Surgery
Norman Leslie Capener	1929	Instructor in Anatomy Associate Professor of Surgery
Norman Thompson	1962 - 2001	Professor of Surgery Henry Ransom King Endowed Professor of Surgery
Pan Zheng	2006 - 2013	Professor of Surgery Professor of Pathology
Paul A. Taheri	1994 - 2007	Associate Professor of Surgery
Paul E. Hodgson	1954 - 1962	Associate Professor of Surgery Associate Professor of Postgraduate Medicine
Paul Matthew Maggio	2004 - 2007	Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
Peter Liu	2007 - 2015	Assistant Professor
Raja Mahidhara	2008 - 2011	Assistant Professor of Thoracic Surgery
Ramon Berguer	2004 - 2016	Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Reed M. Nesbit	1926 - 1969	Professor of Urology Surgery Chair of Urology
Reed Othelbert Dingman	1940 - 1976	Professor of Surgery
Richard C. Schneider	1950 - 1983	Professor of Neurosurgery
Richard E Burney	1976 - 2012	Professor of Surgery
Richard F. Haines	1958 - 1991	Associate Professor of Microbiology in the Department of Surgery
Richard G. Fiddian Green	1976 - 1984	Associate Professor of Surgery
Richard G. Ohye	1998 - 1999	Lecturer in Surgery
Richard I. Whyte	1993 - 1997	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Richard L. Prager	1999 - 2021	Professor of Cardiac Surgery
Richard W. Long	1982 - 1985	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Riley S Rees	1988 - 2011	Professor of Surgery
Robert Champion Bassett	1944 - 1960	Associate Professor of Surgery
Robert E. Cilley	1990 - 1991	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Robert Edward Lee Berry	1945 - 1964	Associate Professor of Surgery
Robert Hawes Bartlett	1980 - 2005	Professor of Surgery
Robert J. MacGregor	1981 - 1982	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Robert M. Merion	1986 - 2014	Professor of Surgery
Robert William Buxton	1942 - 1955	Associate Professor of Surgery
S. Martin Lindenauer	1964 - 1997	Professor of Surgery -Urology
Sandra Lynn Wong	2005 - 2015	Professor of Surgical Oncology Associate Professor of Surgery
Seema S. Sonnad	1995 - 2002	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Shawn J. Pelletier	2003 - 2012	Associate Professor of Transplant Surgery
Stephen A. Koff	1975 - 1982	Associate Professor of Surgery
Stephen A. Rowe	2002 - 2003	Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
Stephen E. Feinberg	1990 - 2019	Professor of Dentistry & Surgery
Steven J. Kasten	1999 - 2004	Clinical Lecturer in Surgery
Steven R. Cohen	1990 - 1992	Assistant Professor of Surgery
Suresh Ramnath	1997 - 2020	Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery Clinical Assistant Professor Emeritus
Sylvester John  O'Connor	1946 - 1957	Associate Professor of Surgery
Theodore Z. Polley Jr	1982 - 2013	Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery Clinical Associate Professor Emeritus
Thomas J. Herrmann	1967 - 1983	Assistant of Surgery Associate Professor of Postgraduate Medicine and Health Professions Education
Thomas L. Dent	1971 - 1984	Professor of Surgery
Thomas R. Stevenson	1982 - 1989	Associate Professor of Surgery
Thomas W. Wakefield	1984 - 2023	Professor of Surgery
Timothy George Schuster	1998 - 2006	Assistant Professor of Urology
Timothy M. Johnson	1990 - 2020	Professor of Dermatology, Surgery & Otolaryngology
Timothy S. Harrison	1962 - 1975	Professor of Surgery
Todd A. Irwin	2010 - 2017	Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
Vernon L. Hart	1927	Instructor of Surgery
Vincent A. Simonetti	2007 - 2018	Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
Vincent M. Cimmino	1994 - 2012	Clinical Professor of Surgery
Vivian Iob	1942 - 1970	Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry
Walter Grierson Maddock	1932 - 1946	Associate Professor of Surgery
Walter M. Whitehouse Jr.	1979 - 1985	Associate Professor of Surgery
Warren L. Garner	1989 - 1998	Associate Professor of Surgery
William C. Grabb	1958 - 1982	Professor of Plastic Surgery
William Carman Baum	1950 - 1956	Associate Professor of Surgery
William D. Belville	1990 - 2000	Associate Professor of Surgery
William E. Strodel III	1979 - 1987	Associate Professor of Surgery
William F. Chandler	1979 - 2014	Professor of Internal Medicine Professor of Neurosurgery
William H. Weintraub	1974 - 1979	Associate Professor of Surgery
William J. Butler	1968 - 1986	Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
William J. Regan Jr.	1956 - 1958	Instructor in Surgery
William S. Gross	1976 - 1978	Assistant Professor of Surgery
William S. Smith	1950 - 1997	Professor of Surgery
William W. Coon	1956 - 1997	Professor of Surgery
William Warren Greene	1867 - 1868	Professor of Civil and Military Surgery
Yang Liu	2006 - 2012	Professor of Internal Medicine, Molecular Medicine & Genetics Professor of Surgery Charles B. de Nancrede Research Professor of Surgery
Yoshimi Anzai	1999 - 2000	Assistant Professor of Radiology

Surgery

List of Professors

Jack Lapides

Aaron Isreal Vinik

Alan C. Peterson

Alan M. Yahanda

Alexander Burgess Vial

Alfred E. Chang

Alfred Scott Warthin

Ali Farouk Mallat

Alpheus Benning Crosby

Alvise Bernabei

Ananias C. Diokno

Ariel Barkan

Arnold G. Coran

Barry Steinberg

Beverly D. Ulrich

Bruce R. Nelson

Calvin B. Ernst

Cameron Haight

Camille T Flotte

Carl Egbert Badgley

Carl Walter Eberbach

Carol J. Bennett

Carroll M. Harmon

Chantal Parenteau

Charles Beylard de Nancrede

Charles F. Frey

Charles G. Child III

Charles J. Shanley

Chia-Ying Lin

Christine L. Lau

Christopher Roark

Cyrenus Garritt Darling

Dan Jayne Bulmer

Daniel B. Hinshaw

Daniel C Hunter

Darrell A. Campbell Jr.

David A. August

David E. Misek

David G. Beer

David J. Dries

David P. Wood Jr

David Steinmuller

Dennis P. Horan

Dheeraj Gandhi

Diane M. Simeone

Donald A. Ross

Donald C. Dafoe

Douglas M. Behrendt

Duane Freier

Earl F. Wolfman Jr.

Edgar Adolph Kahn

Edward Ellis III

Edward J. Hill

Edward L. Bove

Edward S. Tank

Emerick Desiderius Szilagyi

Enrique Criado-Pallares

Eric J. Devaney

Eugene Breckenridge Potter

Eustace Golladay

Evan J. Kass

Flavian M. Lupinetti

Flemming Carrow

Fredrick A. Coller

Ganesh R. Deshmukh

Geneva M. Omann

George B. Mychaliska

George D. Zuidema

George E. Block

George Hammond

George Hugh Lawrence

Gerald A. O'Connor

Gerald B. Zelenock

Gerhardt H. Bauer

Gilbert R. Upchurch Jr

Gregory P. Graziano

H. Burton Grossman

Harry P. Koo

Camille T  Flotte