June 2014 - The Department of Surgery | Wayne State University
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JUNE 2014 Humanitarianism and Volunteerism The following article appeared in the American College of Surgeons Foundation Annual Report 2013. June 14 Inside this issue: Dr. Ingida Asfaw Honored 1-2 1st Annual JC Rosenberg Lecture 3 Greetings from a Radiologist who acts like a surgeon 4-9 Reports from the Outfield 10-11 WSSS Dues 12 WSSS Alumni and Friends 13 WSSS 2014 Ballot 14 WSU Monthly Conferences 15 WSSS June 15 16-17 Dr. Ingida Asfaw (WSUGS 1974) was again honored for his contributions to others. Ingida Asfaw, MD, FACS, from Grosse Pointe, MI, received the 2013 Surgical Volunteerism Award for international outreach for his commitment Dr. Ingida Asfaw to improving medical and surgical care in Ethiopia. Dr. Asfaw grew up in (WSU/GS/TS 1974/75) Ethiopia and, at age 16, traveled to the U.S. for school with the promise of returning home to provide state-of-the-art health care in his country. He attended Indiana University Medical School—Indianapolis and completed general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery residencies at Wayne State University and Detroit Medical Center, MI, followed by a fellowship in cardiovascular surgery at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston. After completing his training, the political climate in Ethiopia prevented his return for 28 years. In the interim, Dr. Asfaw arranged for Ethiopian citizens needing complex medical and surgical care to travel to Michigan and other states for pro bono care, assisting with their hospital costs. In 1999, Dr. Asfaw founded the Ethiopian North American Health Professionals Association (ENAHPA), charged with improving access to quality care in Ethiopia. Under his leadership, ENAHPA has had a far-reaching and lasting impact on the Ethiopian health care system. In 2003, during their inaugural mission in Ethiopia, Dr. Asfaw and his team performed the country’s first open-heart, cardiac pacemaker, and laparoscopic cholecystectomy operations. Since then, ENAHPA has conducted more than 40 missions to Ethiopia, performing nearly 3,000 procedures. The organization has proved instrumental in improving the medical and educational infrastructure, including presentation of the first telemedicine conference in Ethiopia, the establishment of surgical skills laboratories at Addis Ababa and Gondar Universities, the development of emergency medicine residency training and first responder/allied health education programs at Addis Ababa University and St. Paul’s General Hospital, and the procurement of a medical rescue ambulance. In 2004, ENAHPA collaborated with the Christian Children’s Fund of Canada to establish community-centered holistic HIV care and implemented the first free major antiretroviral drug treatment distribution program in Ethiopia. An outreach program to HIV orphans was created with a local grassroots organization. ENAHPA partnered with the Clinton Foundation to create a pediatric HIV JUNE 2014 Humanitarianism and Volunteerism, cont.. Maternal Child Health Center in Hawassa—a primary level hospital managing high-risk births and complex patients. Numerous Ethiopian physicians, nurses, and allied health care professionals have been trained through ENAHPA’s education programs. ENAHPA continues to provide oversight to its initiatives in collaboration with local Ethiopian health care officials while transferring much of the programmatic control to the local workforce. Dr. Asfaw has been recognized with the Volvo For Life Award, a commendation from the City of Detroit, and myriad awards from organizations in North American and Ethiopia. Dr. Asfaw is a cardiothoracic surgeon and clinical associate professor of surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine and chief of the medical staff at St. Joseph Mercy Oakland-Trinity Health in Pontiac, MI. Dr. Asfaw can be congratulated at [email protected]. Dr. Asfaw (second from left) with his first patients at the newly opened, state-of-theart Maternal Child Health Care Center in Hawassa, Ethiopia in 2011 Page 2 JUNE 2014 1st Annual JC Rosenberg Lecture Dr. Jerry Rosenberg, a long-term department of Surgery faculty member and Trailblazer for the transplant program, supported the development of an “Annual JC Rosenberg Endowed Lecture” which was initiated on Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Dr. Scott Gruber introduced the 1 st Annual Lecturer. Scott, until recently, was in charge of the WSU/DMC Transplant Program and now is chief of staff at the Veterans Administration Hospital. On Tuesday, May 6, the visiting lecturer, Dr. Joseph Leventhal, Professor of Surgery and chief of the division of Organ Transplantation at Northwestern University, was hosted by Dr. Rosenberg, Dr. Gruber, and Dr. Weaver at Da Edoardo Foxtown Grille in downtown Detroit. Many of the faculty members and people involved in the transplant program had the opportunity to visit with Dr. Leventhal. Dr. Leventhal’s presentation on Wednesday morning dealt with “Clinical Tolerance Trials.” This was a very comprehensive presentation, which covered both scientific and clinical materials. There was a very active question-and-answer session. Dr. Rosenberg can be [email protected]. congratulated er, Dr. Josep Dr. Scott Grub senberg (Left to right) d Dr. Jerry Ro an l, ha nt ve Le h Dr. Mona Doshi and Mr. Omar Fagoaga enjoy the festivities of the 1st Annual JC Rosenberg Lecture Page 3 for initiating 1962/67) Dr. Charlie Lucas (WSU/GS t and Ms. Kathy Reinhard this annual lectureship Dr. Darla Granger shares a with Dr. Joseph Le funny story venthal (Left Weav to right) D er (W SUGS r. Jerry R o at Da 1979), an senberg, D d Edoa rdo F Dr. Josep r. Donald oxtow h n Gril Leventha l le Dr. Alan Silbergleit (WSUGS/TS 1960/65) and his bride, Ina at MAY 2014 Greetings from a Radiologist Who Acts Like a Surgeon! During the current academic year, Dr. Charlie Lucas (WSU/GS 1962/67) served as the president for the WSU SOM Alumni Association. Each of the graduates from five-year intervals were invited to attend their reunion with their fellow classmates. Dr. William Cox, the westernmost radiologist in North America, sent his excuse for not attending his 35th anniversary. His letter explaining why he could not attend was accompanied by an experience he had from 1998. An unedited summary of this experience follows. The extended surgical clan will probably find it enlightening and humorous. Gennadi and Pavel Siberia 1998: Secret passwords, spilled blood, and the Russian criminal mafia. It was the spring of 1998 and I was itching to get back to Russia. It had been two years since my previous visit, and something about the place resonated with me. I just missed Russia. I had no official reason to go but I knew if I got an invitation, a visa, and a plane ticket, and put out the word that I was going, the reasons and requests would follow. That was how it worked in Anchorage back then in the 90s. I put in a call to my friends at the University. Weeks later the phone started ringing. Misha pulled onto my Anchorage driveway in a late-model SUV one warm afternoon in June. Misha was one of those nouveaux Russian residents in Anchorage at the time. Entrepreneurs of glasnost and perestroika. The latest model cell phone dangled from his belt. Dressed in casual slacks and an expensive-looking silk shirt open at the collar, he had the confident air of the new generation of young Russian businessmen. The friend of a friend, Misha had a contact who was going to pick me up at the airport in Khabarovsk when I arrived. The plane got in around midnight and taxis were very few and far between. Would I take some cash over to his friend, Misha asked? No problem, I thought; I’d taken small amounts of cash into Russia before, as well as various gifts and parcels, including a small box of Miracle-Gro for a Magadan telecommunication guru’s potatoes. (The guy in Magadan thanked me by pushing a beige-colored phone across a giant desk in his giant office and told me I could call anywhere in the world, which was a big deal in the Russian Far East in the early 90s.) “How much cash to you want me to take?” I asked Misha. “Four thousand,” he replied. I hesitated, suggesting this was a large amount of money and might be trouble. “No problem,” Continue page 5 Page 4 JUNE 2014 Greetings from a Radiologist Who Acts Like a Surgeon! (cont) replied Misha, “just declare it to Russian customs. It’s perfectly legal.” He went on to tell me he’s carried as much as $100,000 in cash in an attaché case to Moscow several times and there was no problem. I did not find that reassuring and wondered what kind of business Misha was involved in. “Ok, four thousand,” I agreed, “but we need a secure password so I give the money to the right person.” I thought for a second and suggested: obleypikha, cheryawmykha, smorodina. Three Russian berries. Misha indulged me, looking bored, then pulled out a small camera. “How about I just take your picture, scan it, and send it to my friend so he recognizes you?” he asked. Misha is no fun, I remember thinking. If I was going to had off a big wad of cash to a stranger in a Russian airport, I wanted some drama. And that meant secret passwords. We agreed: photo and passwords. It was nearly midnight when I cleared customs at the airport in Khabarovsk and wandered into the main lobby. I turned up my collar and cast furtive glances about the lobby, looking for a Slav with cold, steely eyes staring at me over the upturned pages of a copy of Komsomolskaya Pravda he was pretending to read. I discerned nothing suspicious. Then a young man came up to me and said, “You must be Bill.” Misha’s friend, I thought, somewhat disappointed. These guys are just not going to play along and indulge me. “the password,” I insisted. “Smo… Smo… - come on, you can do it, I thought, giving him the first syllable—Smorodina! “Cher… Cher…” We got through two berries. I felt dumb conducting a post-midnight game of charades in a Siberian airport and could tell he was just humoring me. I handed over the four grand and he gave me a ride to Nellie’s. Not being a Russian, I had never seen a babushka. So I adopted Nellie. She was the mother of a translator I knew from Magadan. I loved that dear old woman. Married to her second husband, Volodya, who retired involuntarily after almost 40 years of working at a local factor, they were poor pensioners living in a tiny flat in a northern district of Khabarosk. Volodya, who liked to ice-fish on the Amur River, had shown me some of the most beautifully handcrafted pieces of wooden ice-fishing equipment I’d ever seen. They had no phone, so I could not give them advance notice of my arrival. I just showed up and banged on their door at 1 a.m. And then it was all I could do to dissuade Nellie from frying up a batch of potatoes for me in the wee hours. “God bless the Russian people.” The next morning, with Nellie’s grandson, Seryozha, in tow, we headed downtown via tram and bus for my first “assignment. Continue page 6 Page 5 JUNE 2014 Greetings from a Radiologist Who Acts Like a Surgeon! (cont) Andrei worked for one of those new and politically sensitive “independent radio stations.” But, as I came to find out, he covered his bases. Little Seryozha was impressed by all of the electronic equipment at the station. Then we all headed over to the airport where Andre’s mother was awaiting us. The Russian wife of a Seattle-area physician had myelofibrosis and would probably need a bone marrow transplant in the not-tooWilliam Cox and his bride greet Gubad distant future. Her nephew Andrei and her sister (Andrei’s mother) Dr. Talabani, (center) son of Iraq President, Jalal were judged to be the best possible candidates for a bone-marrow do- Talabani, in Nome, Alaska in November 2008 nation. I had a box full of test tubes that needed to be filled with blood—courtesy of Providence Hospital’s “Angel of Mercy” Esther Petrie. And 48 hours to get the blood samples to Virginia Mason in Seattle via Alaska Airlines from Khabarovsk. God Bless Esther Petrie! As a radiologist, I didn’t draw blood regularly. But drawing blood is like riding a bicycle. It comes back quickly. Andrei’s veins were a “piece of cake” and I filled the requisite 7 or 8 tubes in no time. But his mom, unfortunately, turned out to be the phlebotomist’s nightmare. Heavy-set women were always a bit of a challenge to me, but I knew there was more blood going down a larger extremity and that same blood had to come back up. Almost always I could sense the hidden big vein, poke it and strike red gold. Not today. I worked my way down her forearm and into her wrist, poking away. Suddenly, the room felt about 20 degrees warmer. The pilot was calling in from the Alaska Airlines jet on the runway telling me, in no uncertain term, to hurry up. And then I remember the advice of my former mentor in Detroit, the great trauma surgeon, Dr. Charles Lucas. “If you’re having trouble drawing blood or starting an IV,” he counseled us, “go wash your face.” Apparently, it helps you reset. I followed his advice, using the cold water from a nearby sink. Chasing collapsing veins down to the base of her fingers, I managed to coax enough blood to fill about 5-1/2 test tubes. Olga, the station manager, was most patient. Her desk top, where I had set up shop, was covered with splotches of blood. The Alaska Airlines pilot was revving his engines. I was relieved to find out, weeks later, that the samples were sufficient for a complete type cross-match. And some years later I ran into Olga at Carrs on Dimondiin Anchorage and apologized for the blood mess I made on her desk. Continue page 7 Page 6 JUNE 2014 Greetings from a Radiologist Who Acts Like a Surgeon! (cont) Andrei wanted to thank me for my service by taking me out drinking. Vodka lubricates most social, family, and business encounters in Russia; it is always shared with others and served with food. A multi-course meal filled with laughter and conversation and punctuated with multiple vodka or cognac toasts will go on for hours until tea and a sweet dessert is finally served. We ate, drank, and talked. Like many Russians, Andrei had a very fluid, or nuanced, approach to the law. He was comfortable on both sides. Dictators like Stalin and Brezhnev did not inspire fidelity to the Rule of Law, although they might be supported by the people out of nationalistic pride, or fear. I once met a wonderful and hospitable peasant woman in the Altai who told me how she cried when Stalin died in 1953. She cried because her newborn son would never have a chance to meet him. It’s complex. And for many Russians it’s just a matter of physical survival. I couldn’t pretend to understand, but at least I was here, on-site, and on a learning curve. I credit the counsel of Pythagorus again: “Check your prejudices at every port of entry.” The times they were a-changing, though I doubt Bob Dylan had any clue about Russia. Andrei explained to me that there were now three mafias to be dealt with: 1) the government mafia—out to do the government’s work, 2) the businessman’s mafia, probably spawned during the chaotic Yelsin years when state assets made their way into private hands, and, finally, 3) the criminal mafia —its reputation for crime and brutality undiminished. The three mafias usually operated independently, he explained, although occasionally the criminal mafia would be invited to join the government or businessmen’s mafia on a project. I tried to explain this arrangement once in a letter to George Bush’s lapdog, Tony Blair, after exKGB agent Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned to death with polonium-210 in Great Britain in November 2006. I don’t know if he ever understood, although #10 Downing Street did acknowledge receipt of my letter. Andrei suddenly decided to call a lady friend of his to join us, hoping she was in town. “Criminal Woman” is how he referred to her in English. Andrei spoke good English. He never mentioned her name, just “Criminal woman,” explaining that she did jobs for the mafia. He didn’t say which of the mafias she worked for, but I could guess. He got her on the phone. Continue page 8 Page 7 JUNE 2014 Greetings from a Radiologist Who Acts Like a Surgeon! (cont) I was intrigued, envisioning a scowling and menacing version of Angelina Jolie dressed in black. They talked in Russian a while until Andrei hung up, disappointed. “She just got back from a job in Moscow,” he explained. He didn’t go into details. “She just wants to take a shower and sleep.” Well, that just intrigued me more. But it was not to be. The night was young and Andrei had other friends he wanted me to meet. Andrei and his friends had been helping Pavel hide out for the past year. Pavel was a member of, or at least worked for, the Russian criminal mafia. This is where trust came in. I followed Andrei to the “hiding place.” But first we needed to stop at a liquor store for a bottle of gin. It was raining heavily and muddy water was gushing over the surface of the poorly drained street, making for very slippery conditions. It was very dark and the vodka I consumed at Andrei’s was probably starting to hit me. The combination of these three factors likely contributed to what happened next: I went down and gashed open my knee. Sheer machismo embarrassment propelled me back to an upright position. I hobbled after Andrei, we purchased the gin and finally arrived at the “hiding place.” A word needs to be said about “friendship” in Russia. In America, you meet someone on a bus or in a bar, chat about an interest you have in common, and you’re “friends.” Not in Russia. The Russians make clear distinctions between druk (“friend”) and znakawmie (“acquaintance”). The difference is crucial. An acquaintance is just that: casual, probably honest, possibly fleeting. But true friendship, as I was beginning to understand, transcends family, political, legal, international, and other barriers. It implies trust and responsibility and probably other qualities only to be distilled from the extensive Russian lexicon of Pushkin. Pushkin, I am told, had a command of the Russian language greater than all other Russian authors. Which would eclipse my favorite, Anton Checkhov. Checkhov’s stories were criticized for being all middle and no beginning or end. But he wrote about the common people—who lived and survived in the present. That’s where I was, and I was about to add some more druks to my life-long list. Pavel didn’t impress me as someone who was in hiding. He welcomed me into the typical, non-descript, small Soviet-style apartment he shared with a roommate, Gennadi. Gennadi was a police captain. Interesting arrangement, I thought. It certainly afforded Pavel an extra margin of safety if he was hiding from something. They were probably friends who went to their posts by day and returned to a shared apartment in the evening. Continue page 9 Page 8 JUNE 2014 Greetings from a Radiologist Who Acts Like a Surgeon! (cont) Before I could analyze the situation any further they popped open the gin, poured shots, and we all toasted. They out came a guitar and the two roommates began to sing, with Andrei occasionally joining in. I sat back and reveled in the enjoyment of a mini-concert of Russian folk songs by a most unusual two-man band, barely noticing the blood trickling down my leg from a make-shift bandage on my knee. Shortly after midnight it became time to leave. My arrangement with the University in Anchorage, for apparent business related reasons, required me to spend a night at the Hotel Amur downtown. Police captain Gennadi had a car and offered to drive us back to town. Andrei and I finished off the gin in the back seat and I remember wondering if this was legal. Then I remember thinking that if anyone pulled us over, a police captain was behind the wheel and a member of the Russian criminal mafia was in the passenger seat. We had our bases covered. They escorted me safely to my room at the Hotel Amur. I awoke early the next morning with a vicious thirst and an equally vicious hangover. Then I discovered I was locked in my room (the key would not open my door from the inside). And the phone did not work. I slaked my thirst with cold tap water and went back to sleep, hoping somehow this would all work itself out. I woke up again toward noon. Nothing had changed, except I wasn’t quite as thirsty. I started counting the sheets, and measuring them, wondering if I could lower myself down from the 3rd floor, when I heard a knock on the door. It was Sasha, a friend from Magadan now living in Khabarovsk, and her mother, worried about me and, apparently, the company I’d been keeping. “Klooch ne rabotayet,” I said, “the key doesn't work.” They summoned help and I was released before I had to start tying sheets together and breaking glass. Seems like I was the only American on the 3rd floor. They all seemed to know me. The dezhormaya, or woman-in-charge-of-the-floor, offered me a shot of vodka in a very fancy crystal glass when she learned of my prokhmelya, or hangover. My head wanted it, but my stomach reacted as if it was being twisted like a washrag. I felt bad declining her hospitality, but physically, I had no choice. Her daughter, a drop-dead-gorgeous dancer named Nastia, who had been working in Korea, gave me her address and phone number. Sometimes, Russia overwhelms. I followed Sasha and her mom back to their relatively spacious apartment where I spent the next few days until my flight back to Anchorage. Page 9 JUNE 2014 REPORTS FROM THE OUTFIELD Dr. Tim McGuire (WSUGS 2003) reports how shocked and saddened he was to hear about the death of Dr. Bala. He points out to everybody that Dr. Bala taught him “lots of skills” that he uses almost daily. transformative science in which the spiritual is integrated within the research, education, and practice of all of the healing arts both conventional and alternative. Dr. Tim McGuire CREATIVITY Surgeons, in a sense, are really creative individuals who apply their skills in the operating room and in an office setting, but behind the mask of conservative stoicism, there is a creative urge trying to Dr. Mike Denney get out. Fortunately, this urge sometimes succeeds. Dr. Mike Denney (WSUGS 1967) has published a new book called “Nobody’s Boy: An Old Doctor and a New Science.” This book is a heartwarming medical memoir telling of Mike’s lifelong quest for unification of spirituality with science in the healing arts. Dr. Denney, whose special skills include surgery and psychology, tells dramatic and inspirational stories of his childhood, medical education, and years of practice, all of which offer new pathways toward a new science of the 21st century, namely, a Page 10 Dr. Evan Geller (WSUGS/TS 1987/90) has come out with the second book of the Claddagh trilogy. This book, entitled The Problem with God, deals with Father Zimmerman who knows all about life, death, God, and salvation. Zimmerman has Dr. Evan Geller seen it all, having lived and fought through war and other difficulties. Now in his role as a professor Jesuit priest teaching “The Problem with God” course to his Georgetown undergraduates, he has become accustomed to stimulating them with difficult questions. Of course, this makes it difficult to grade the answers. Zimmerman learns that life is so much more complicated than he ever imagined; so is death! When a woman with no name falls from a bridge, Zimmerman has the fleeting impression that he’s witnessing an angel falling to earth. Later, he finds out that he was wrong about that also. Evan is a stimulating writer with a great imagination, so that his works are recommended by the editor. JUNE 2014 REPORTS FROM THE OUTFIELD The year-end combined meeting of the Detroit Surgical Association (DSA) and the Academy of Surgery of Detroit (ASD) occurred on May 8 and was held at the Colony Club in downtown De- Dr. Alicia Olson troit. At that meeting Dr. Alicia Olson (WSUGS 2014) was awarded this year’s Charles Johnston Award for her paper Exog- enous Phosphatidylcholine Supplementation Improves Intestinal Barrier Defense Against Clostridium Difficile Toxin. Dr. Olson’s coau- cation. This is a very competitive program, which has residents competing from all of the medical school disciplines. Dr. Ali again Dr. Larry Diebel (WSU/GS 1980/86) and Dr. Abubaker Ali (WSUGS 2015) expresses his thanks to Dr. Larry Diebel (WSU/GS 1980/86) who has been a scientific mentor during his residency years. ERRATUM thors on this paper included Dr. Larry N. Diebel (WSU/GS 1980/86) and Mr. David M. Liberati. Dr. Kartheek Nagappala (WSUGS 2014) let the Rebecca Bachusz (WSUGS 2013) editor know that the picproudly reported that she passed ture below was labelled her oral board examination, which wrong in the May Monthly was a big relief for her. She is very Email Report. It identithankful to the faculty who fied Dr. Alfred Baylor “pestered her” all the time in order Dr. Al Baylor (WSUGS 2005) and Dr. with Dr. Kellie McFarlin (WSU/GS 2003/08) to prepare her for this oral exami- Dr. Rebecca Bachusz Keiva Bland. nation. She can be congratulated at It should have identified Dr. [email protected]. fred Baylor with Dr. Kellie Dr. Abubaker Ali, who finishes McFarlin instead. Also, anothhis general surgery training in er photo identifies Dr. Terra Dr. Leila Green June, 2015, received the second (WSUGS 2015) Pearson. The photo is Dr. Leila overall award at the Southeast Green. The editor will try to do Michigan Center for Medical Edubetter next time. Page 11 Wayne State Surgical Society JUNE 2014 2014 Dues Notice MARK YOUR Name: CALENDARS Address: August 3-5 City/State/Zip: Midwest Surgical Association The Grand Hotel Service Description Amount 2013 Dues Payment __ $200__ My contribution for “An Operation A Year for WSU” *Charter Life Member _ ____ _$1000__ Total Paid____________________________________________________ Mackinaw Island, MI September 10-13 73rd Annual AAST Meeting Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Philadelphia, PA Payment by Credit Card Include your credit card information below and mail it or fax it to 313-993-7729. 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Detroit, Michigan 48201 Page 12 Dear WSSS Alumni & Friends: The time has arrived for me to provide a summary of the WSSS events from 2013 and also notice of events for the upcoming year. But first I would like to say thank you. It has been my honor to have served over the past year, which I have to say has been successful. Membership is good and finances have been steady. While these are good things and the balance is at or near “equilibrium,” we must be vigilant to encourage new membership at both the annual and lifetime levels. The last annual meeting of the WSSS was held on Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, DC in conjunction with the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress. The Wayne State Department of Surgery Alumni Reception was very well attended and the WSSS Annual Dinner Meeting immediately followed it. There was one newly elected board member announced at the dinner. Dr. Scott Davidson was elected to take over the Member-at-Large position from Dr. Daniel Sullivan who completed his three-year term. I would like to acknowledge and thank Dr. Sullivan for his service and commitment the to WSSS. Your current Board of Directors includes Dr. Donald Weaver, Chairman of the Department; Dr. Mark Herman, President; Dr. Randy Smith, President-Elect; Dr. Christopher Dente, Secretary-Treasurer; Dr. Joseph Sferra, Member-at-Large; Dr. Scott Davidson, Member-at-Large; and Dr. Jeffrey Johnson, Member-at-Large. Three of these members will be completing their terms of office this year. Ballots are enclosed for the election of a new President-Elect, Secretary-Treasurer, and Member-at-Large. The WSSS was honored to host William Schecter, M.D., F.A.C.S. as it Annual Lecturer. He is a trauma surgeon who has spent most of his career at UCSF where he is considered a master surgeon. He has also devoted much of his time working to improve access to surgical care for the poor and impoverished. The lecture was at Harper Hospital on Wednesday, November 13, 2013. Dr. Schecter gave a truly remarkable, introspective, and captivating talk entitled "Meditation on Mortality: Lessons from a Life in Surgery." It is available in print (J Trauma 2011 Feb;70(2):340-4) and is highly recommended reading for residents and seasoned surgeons alike. He followed his WSSS appearance with lectures at the Detroit Trauma Symposium on November 14-15, 2013 at the MGM Grand Casino as well as a dinner talk at the Academy of Surgery of Detroit on Thursday, November 14. Detroit kept him very busy. The WSSS and the Trauma Symposium continue to enjoy a close relationship. This past year 28 of our members attended the meeting along with 16 of the current Wayne State surgery residents. A reminder that the registration fee is waived for our members. This continues to be an outstanding venue for CME, networking, our simply catching up with colleagues. The dates for the 2014 Symposium are Thursday, November 6 and Friday, November 7. Our next annual dinner meeting is expected to take place on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 in conjunction with ACS Clinical Congress in San Francisco. Please watch for an update to confirm the meting location and time. The WSSS Annual Lecture is expected to take place in November again at Harper Hospital. Details will be provided once a speaker is confirmed. Lastly, the WSSS annual dues remain at $200 per year, which includes the reception/dinner at the American College of Surgeons meeting and the registration fee for the Annual Trauma Symposium. Your dues also provide support for the annual lecturer, resident research, and resident/student travel to the ACS. A dues increase has recently been considered in order to help fund the increasing cost of resident travel. Thanks in large part to a generous donation directed for the residents from Dr. Jason Bodzin, this dues increase is not currently necessary. Continued support of the WSSS by its members and the ability to grow its membership are critical to our long-term success. Dr. Lucas also has a fund known as “An Operation a Year” which is an optional contribution (in addition to dues) that will help our chief residents attend the ACS Meeting. Alternatively, you may sign up as a Charter/Life Member with a payment of $10,000 or a commitment of $1,000 per year for ten years. A reminder that all new surgical residency and fellowship graduates are offered WSSS membership upon graduation, and the dues are waived for two years following completion of training. I would like to encourage those of you who are now beyond this two-year window to retain your membership. Finally, on behalf of the WSSS, I again want to thank Dr. Lucas for his hard work and dedication. If you happen to be missing his newsletters, please email him at [email protected] to get on his mailing list or simply update your current whereabouts. Warm regards, Mark A. Herman, M.D., F.A.C.S President, WSSS JUNE 2014 Page 13 WAYNE STATE SURGICAL SOCIETY OFFICERS BALLOT 2014 President-Elect: □ Brian Shapiro, MD Secretary-Treasurer: □ Renato Albaran, MD Board of Directors: □ Mike Malian, MD □ Alfred Baylor, MD □ Mallory Williams, MD (vote for no more than one member in each of the 3 positions) Please Return Ballot and Dues to: Deborah Waring Department of Surgery Detroit Receiving Hospital, Room 2V 4201 St. Antoine Street Detroit, Michigan 48201 JUNE 2014 Page 14 JUNE 2014 Page 15 WSU MONTLY CNFERENCES 2014 Death & Complications Conference Every Wednesday from 7-8 Didactic Lectures - 8 am Kresge Auditorium Harper Hospital Wednesday, June 4 Death & Complications Conference “Device-Associated Infections at DMC” Keith S. Kaye, MD, MPH “Severance of the Finger: Restoring Function and Beyond” James Tseng, MD WSU Department of Surgery Wednesday, June 11 Death & Complications Conference “Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernias” Alexander Stoffan, MD WSU Department of Surgery Wednesday, June 18 Death and Complications Conference “Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis” Lisa M. Flynn, MD WSU Department of Surgery Wednesday, June 24 Death and Complications Conference SCORE CURRICULUM: Cystic & Neuroendocrine Tumors of Pancreas Gamal Mostafa, MD WSU Department of Surgery JUNE 2014 Page 16 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) R. Kambhampati (2003) Edgar Roman (1971) Mohammad Ali (1973) Aftab Khan (1973) Renato G. Ruggiero (1994) David B. Allen (1992) Mark Leiser (1996) Parvid Sadjadi (1971) Tayful R. Ayalp (1979) Samuel D. Lyons (1988) Samson P. Samuel (1996) Robert C. Birks (1970) Dean R. Marson (1997) Knavery D. Scaff (2003) Juan C. Calzetta (1982) Syed A. Mehmood (2007) Steven C. Schueller (1974) Sebastian J. Campagna (1969) Mehul M. Mehta (1992) Anand G. Shah (2005) Kuan-Cheng Chen (1976) Toby Meltzer (1987) Anil Shetty (2008) Elizabeth Colaiuta (2001) Roberto Mendez (1997) Chanderdeep Singh (2002) Fernando I. Colon (1991) Mark D. Morasch (1998) Raj A. Sukhnandan (1966) David Davis (1984) Daniel J. Olson (1993) D. Sukumaran (1972) Teoman Demir (1996) Ellen Beth Ozolins (2000) David G. Tse (1997) Judy A. Emanuele (1997) David Packer (1998) Peter VandenBerg (1986) Lawrence J. Goldstein (1993) Daniel S. Paley (2003) Christopher N. Vashi (2007) David M. Gordon (1993) Y. Park (1972) Carlos M. Villafane (1990) Raghuram Gorti (2002) Bhavik G. Patel (2004) Larry A. Wolk (1984) Karin Haji (1973) Michael M. Peikoff (1970) Peter Y. Wong (2002) Michelle Hardaway (1989) Jerome P. Pucelik (1966) Shane Yamane (2005) Morteza Hariri (1970) Everton Quadros (1968) Chungie Yang (2005) Abdul A. Hassan (1971) Ami Raafat (1998) Hossein A. Yazdy (1970) S. Amjad Hussain (1970) Kevin Radecki (2001) Lester S. Young (2008) Rose L. Jumah (2006) Sudarshan R. Reddy (1984) Lawrence S. Zachary (1985) Paul Zidel (1986) 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. JUNE 2014 Page 17 Members of the Wayne State Surgical Society Charter-Life Members Ahn, Dean Colon, Fernando I. Gerrick Stanley Allaben, Robert Conway, W. Charles Ames, Elliot L. Davidson, Scott B. Grifka Thomas J. (Deceased) America, Kathryn C. Edelman, David Auer, George Flynn, Lisa M. Bassett, Joseph Fromm, Stefan H. Bouwman, David Fromm, David G Clink, Douglas Galpin, Peter A. Lange, William (Deceased) Rose, Alexander Rosenberg, Jerry C. Lim, John J. Sarin, Susan Herman, Mark A. Lucas, Charles E. Shapiro, Brian Huebl, Herbert C. Montenegro, Carlos E. Johnson, Jeffrey R. Narkiewicz, Lawrence Johnson, Pamela D. Novakovic, Rachel Kovalik, Simon G. Ramnauth, Subhash Smith, Daniel Stassinopoulos, Jerry vonBerg, Vollrad J. Walt, Alexander (Deceased) Weaver, Donald Whittle, Thomas J. Wilson, Robert F. Wood, Michael H. Zahriya, Karim Washington, Bruce C. Rector, Frederick Members of the Wayne State Surgical Society Albaran, Renato Heartwell, Barbara Siegel, Thomas S. Bambach, Gregory A. Hinshaw, Keith Sankaran, Surya N. Baute, Peter B. Horness, Mark D. Sferra, Joseph Bloch, Robert Ivascu, Felicia A. Shaheen, Kenneth W. Bodzin, Jason Joseph, Anthony Shanti, Christina Carlin, Arthur Klein, Michael D. Sullivan, Daniel Dawson, Konrad L. Kline, Gary Tarras, Samantha L. Dente, Christopher J. Kaderabek, Douglas Tennenberg, Steven D. Diebel, Lawrence Lopez, Peter P. Thomas, Gregory A. Dolman, Heather McIntosh, Bruce Thomas, Steven V. Dulchavsky, Scott A. Mueller, Michael J. Ziegler, Daniel W. Gallick, Harold L. Nicholas, Jeffrey M. Geller, Evan R. Paley, Daniel S. Gutowski, Tomasz Phan, Than H. Hardaway, Michelle Prendergast, Michael AN OPERATION A YEAR FOR WSU January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014 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. Kathryn C. Amirikia David Edelman Pamela D. Johnson Thomas S. Siegel Gregory A. Bambach Peter A. Galpin Simon G. Kovalik Thomas, Steven V. Jason Bodzin Even R. Geller John J. Lim Karim Zahriya W. Charles Conway Mark A. Herman Lawrence Narkiewicz Scott B. Davidson Jeffrey Johnson Rachel L. Novakovic
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