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APRIL 2016

NEWSLETTER DATE

Inside this issue:

Central Surgical

Association

1-2

The Wallace Family Shares Their Love with the Extended Surgical Clan

3-7

Reports from the

Outfield

7-9

WSSS Alumni &

Friends

10

WSSS Dues Notice 11

WSU Conference Series

12

WSSS 13-14

The Central Surgical Association (CSA) held its 76th annual meeting at

the Hotel Omni Mont-Royal in Montreal, Canada, from March 10-12,

2016. Dr. Scott Gruber, who is the current chief of staff at the John D.

Dingell Veterans Association Medical Center in Detroit, Michigan,

served as this year’s president of the CSA. Dr. Gruber was the host of

the President’s Dinner, which took place on the Wednesday before the

official opening of the meeting. Many of his supporters attended this function.

During the morning of the first day of the official meeting, Scott gave his presiden-

tial address, which was entitled “Adding a Little Transplant Surgery to the Central:

The Nation’s First Hand Transplant.” This was well received by the membership.

Dr. RB Batchu, PhD, presented a paper entitled, “Pancreatic Cancer-Induced Mi-

croenvironment Inhibits Dendritic Cell Activation Via Decreased Nuclear Localiza-

tion of NF-KB.” This was a very complicated presentation, which was well received.

His co-authors were Ms. OV Gruzdyn, Dr. AM Qazi,PhD, Mr. EM Mahmud, Dr.

Donald Weaver (WSUGS 1979), and Dr. Scott Gruber.

Dr. BW King, PhD, presented a paper entitled “Clinical Immersion for Engineers:

An Introduction to Problem Identification and Solution Development in the Hospi-

tal Environment.” Dr. King’s co-authors were Dr. LA Reisner, PhD, Dr. AK Pan-

dya, PhD, Dr. F Mohammad, and Dr. Michael Klein from our Department of Sur-

gery at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan.

Dr. Charles Shanley (WSUSOM 1987) participated on a

panel entitled, “Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis: CEA Stent

or Optimal Medical Management?” His co-panelists were

Dr. Michael Balsin and Dr. Michael Eskandari.

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DR. SCOTT GRUBER PRESIDES OVER THE 2016 ANNUAL DR. SCOTT GRUBER PRESIDES OVER THE 2016 ANNUAL DR. SCOTT GRUBER PRESIDES OVER THE 2016 ANNUAL

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Dr. Scott Gruber

Dr. Scott Gruber and his bride, Andrea, at the

Central Surgical Foundation dinner, which

supports research projects for young sur-

geons. April 29th

April 2016

Bill Cirocco (WSUSOC 1983) and his wife, Susan,

celebrate Dr. Scott Gruber’s presidential dinner.

Dr. Michael Klein, Chairman Emeritus of the Department of

Surgery at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan, and Dr. Heather

Dolman (WSU/GS 2000/06), trauma and critical care surgeon at

Detroit Receiving Hospital, celebrate the presidential dinner

with Dr. Scott Gruber.

Dr. Scott Gruber (sitting) moderates the Thursday afternoon session of the

Central Surgical Association annual meeting in Montreal.

Dr. Scott Gruber (sitting) moderates the Friday morning session of the Central

Surgical Association annual meeting in Montreal.

Dr. Scott Gruber shares conversation at the presidential dinner of the Central Surgical

Association with Dr. Heather Dolman, Dr. Michael Klein, Dr. RB Batchu, PhD, and Ms. OV

Gruzdyn, BS.

Scott and Andrea check out the menu where Scott presided at the

Central Surgical Association Foundation dinner.

Ms. OV Gruzdyn, BS, presenting the paper entitled,

“Pancreatic Cancer-Induced Microenvironment Inhibits

Dendritic Cell Activation Via Decreased Nuclear Localiza-

tion of NF-KB.” Co-authors on the paper were Dr. RB

Batchu, Dr. AM Qazi, PhD, Mr. EM Mahmud, Dr. Donald

Weaver (WSUGS 1971979) and Dr. Scott Gruber.

April 2016

The Wallace Family Shares Their Love with the

Extended Surgical Clan

Mrs. Michelle Wallace as well as offspring Megan and Robert wish to share their

love of a great husband and father with Jim’s surgical colleagues. The following

letter represents this inner feeling.

Dr. Lucas,

Thank you so much for the wonderful article you wrote about Jim. It is

truly a tribute to him and his earlier days. So many people were not famil-

iar with his formative years as a surgeon. Jim continued to consider you

his mentor and inspiration. His combination of being a talented surgeon and his compassion for

his patients will be missed by many.

Megan, Robert, and I are so proud of Jim and are grateful that your article was shared with

us. When we were in Peru in January, our best friend’s son, Evan Kelly, was Jim’s primary first

assistant. Evan is a senior medical student at Wayne State awaiting his match results into

surgery.

It was an amazing experience to watch “Uncle Jim” teach Evan his craft. Jim quietly taught

Evan all week, beginning with “hold this retractor” to having Evan close cases by the end of the

week. At the time Jim commented on how great it was to be part of teaching the next gener-

ation of a Wayne grad.

Thank you for all you have done to influence our lives for all these years. Jim always said

how lucky he was to still love what he did after so many years.

Sincerely,

Michelle ([email protected])

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The Wallace Family: (left to right)

Michele, Megan, Rob and Jim

April 22nd

April 2016


Extended Surgical Clan, cont….

Mr. Evan Kelly is currently in his fourth year of medical school at WSU and plans to become a surgeon. Starting in July,

he will begin his surgical residency at St. Joseph Hospital in Denver, Colorado. The following represents Mr. Kelly’s re-

membrances of “his uncle,” Dr. Jim Wallace. Mr. Kelly had the privilege of traveling with Jim and Michelle to their mis-

sions in Peru. Jim and Michelle are close friends with Evan’s parents. Evan wished to share his experiences with his teach-

er during these wonderful days.

THE GREATEST GIFT

One of the earliest memories I have of Dr. Jim Wallace was formed on a 4th of July

over 15 years ago. I remember it so clearly because what took place on that day was

a very traumatic and emotional experience. There I was, in his and Aunty Michelle’s

backyard having the time of my life. The sun had just set on another beautiful Inde-

pendence Day, and I had somehow managed to get my hands on a grab bag of prime,

Wisconsin fireworks. At this point in life, few if any possessions would have brought

this shy of a decade old daring, fearless, audacious, bold child more joy and pleasure.

Naturally, I grabbed a lighter and giddily got to the work of putting on a vibrantly

explosive show for all that could hear and see. At this point in the story you may be thinking I likely suffered

great bodily harm and that my trauma surgeon, Uncle Jim, set his drink down and jumped into action to save my

mangled blown apart hand or something. Unfortunately, what actually happened was much, much worse. He com-

pletely doused all of my joy and sent me spiraling into a fit of anger when he stomped over and snatched away the

entire bag of fun. I said it was an emotional time. I was like ten. Little did I know, at the time, I was destined

down a path in life similar to his, a generation apart, that would end with him not taking away, but giving the

greatest gift.

Before my own mom had even met my father she was already in the throes of a best friendship with Michelle

Coriaty. They met while attending the old Grace School of Nursing. Around that same time, Michelle started

dating a long-haired Wayne State medical student, James Wallace. They would go on to marry, their friendship

with my mom and future father would only grow stronger, and I would be born into a world knowing them as Aunty

Michelle and Uncle Jim. Uncle Jim would go on to be trained as a general sur-

geon at the DMC under Drs. Lucas and Ledgerwood. Over 20 years later, I too

would enter Wayne State University School of Medicine to begin my training as

a doctor under the wings of the same wonderful teachers.

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Dr. Jim Wallace (WSU/GS 1980/85) and his neph-

ew, Evan Kelly (WSUSOM 2016) in Piura, Peru

The Piura, Peru surgical team (left to right) Michelle Wallace,

Dr. Jim Wallace, Evan Kelly, Evan’s mom, Elaina Kelly, and

Megan Wallace

April 2016



During my first few years of medical school, I would hear over and over from my mom

about the amazing and wonderful work Aunty Michelle and Uncle Jim were doing on

their surgical mission trips to Central and South America. In my third decade of life

now, on the path to become a general surgeon myself and still as audacious as ever, I

was naturally eager to volunteer for their next trip. After a few phone calls, some

fourth year schedule manipulation, and a great deal of planning, we were all on our way

down to Piura, Peru. While there, I had the honor of witnessing, first hand, the great

work I had heard so much about.

When I arrived, Uncle Jim was just finishing seeing the last of 30 patients for their pre-op visits. This would

be an exhausting day even here in the States at a well-outfitted, well-staffed, air-conditioned clinic where all the

patients spoke English. However, this was Piura, Peru. The nearly 100° clinic was cooled only by a few wall-

mounted fans, and the patients and staff spoke Spanish. Uncle Jim did not. Every line of questioning and re-

sponses by both doctor and patient had to be painstakingly translated by his equally amazing bilingual daughter,

Megan, and her nursing school friend, Kim. As you might imagine, this was tedious and uncomfortable work, espe-

cially for a surgeon, and this was his ‘vacation’ time. Prior to my arrival, Uncle Jim and Aunty Michelle had already

been there for days preparing the OR located within the compound of a local Catholic Mission, Santismo Sacra-

mento. A couple days later, after being taken on a tour of town to see all of the other outstanding projects the

mission was involved in, we began operating. Over the course of five days in the OR, I had the great fortune of

assisting Uncle Jim cure close to thirty poor, hard-working Peruvians of their ventral and inguinal hernias, most

of whom were mothers, farmers, construction workers, and drivers. Prior to their life-altering surgery, they

would have to labor day in and day out while suffering from the pain and discomfort caused by their disease.

What I witnessed was truly the work of a master. Many of the hernias we operated on were chronic and huge.

Uncle Jim was essentially operating in the back of a Catholic church with no one to call on if he were to get into

trouble except maybe God. The church OR had no built in surgical lighting, so he mostly had to

rely on his headlamp. The only two ancient anesthesia machines were broke on arrival and had to

be MacGyvered into one working unit. Any one of these things would make other experienced

surgeons unsteady. But Uncle Jim never wavered. In the case of the anesthesia machine break-

ing with his Peruvian patient already under and no one to call, he simply set down his surgical in-

struments, grabbed a more standard tool box, and got to work disassembling the thing. Within

an hour, the fatigued oxygen line that had burst was cut a few inches shorter, recoupled, and

reattached. The leak was gone, and Uncle Jim got back to the real work at hand. The rest of

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Megan, Michelle, and Jim Wallace take a

short break at the clinic in Piura, Peru

Evan Kelly (left) in the OR

learning from Dr. Wallace

April 2016



The cases went as planned, and no one had to miss out on their operation.

He also never missed an opportunity to teach. Throughout the week, he would let any member of the surgical

team who wanted to learn scrub into the cases with him, answering any and all questions they had as he explained

exactly what he was doing and why. I was fortunate enough to scrub and assist him in almost all his cases. As I

gained his trust over the course of the week, he let me do more and more, scrutinizing my every move. Having

fully and completely grasped it himself, he helped me gain a much stronger grasp of hernia anatomy, an invaluable

trinket of knowledge I shall use and cherish as my intern year looms near.

His life had a sudden and tragic early ending. It was very fitting, however, that before he passed he was able

to pass on some of his wisdom to me, a future Wayne State University School of Medicine grad and future sur-

geon who plans to carry on his mission into the foreseeable future. My memories of him begin with him taking

away, but now I can say they happily end with him giving me the greatest gift, an education.

Thank you Uncle Jim.

Evan Kelly, MSR, WSUSOM

Michelle Wallace checking supplies.

Elaina Kelly, Megan Wallace and Michelle Wallace.

Dr. Jim Wallace and his lovely bride, Michelle after a long day at

the Santisimo Sacramento Catholic Mission.

Elaina Kelly and Michelle Wallace, best friends since their

nursing school days at the Grace School of Nursing in Detroit,

share a laugh during one of their breaks.

Dr. Jim Wallace, Megan, and Michelle on the job with their young-

er patients at the mission.

April 2016



Dr. David Antonenko served on the faculty in the WSU department of Surgery from July

1978 to February 1986. David later served as the chairman of the department of Surgery at

the University of North Dakota, from which he recently retired. Prior to coming to Detroit,

David obtained his PhD in surgical physiology. His thesis described the complexities of extra-

vascular water sequestration following a hemorrhagic shock insult. The site of extravascular

water relocation was located in a sub-segment of the interstitial fluid space lying between and in associa-

tion with cell membranes. David recalls how he and Jim Wallace would have very exciting discussions

about surgical physiology whenever they got together. He described these sessions as “catch up” meetings

when both of them would discuss their personal views about the interstitial fluid space dynamics. David

comments that Jim wasn’t with us long enough.

ADDENDUM TO JANUARY-MARCH ARTICLE ON DR. ALEXANDER ROSE

The editor was delinquent in not providing an update on Dr. Alex Rose’s (WSUGS 2011) family

life in the January-March Monthly Email Report. Alex and his lovely bride, Alyssa, have two

children. Avery is 3 years old, and Ashton is 10 months old. Also, Alex recently was named

“surgeon of the year” from his employer at the Orange Park Medical Center. This was a huge

honor for Alex. He still expects to be in need of an additional surgeon for his group in the

near future.

Dr. David R. Antonenko

REPORTS FROM THE OUTFIELD, cont..REPORTS FROM THE OUTFIELD, cont..

The Rose Family: Dr. Alex Rose holding

daughter, Avery, and Alyssa holding son,

Avery and Ashton Rose

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REPORTS FROM THE OUTFIELD, cont..REPORTS FROM THE OUTFIELD, cont.. Dr. Furrukh Jabbar (WSUGS 2013) finished his fellowship in surgical oncology in June 2014

and now is involved in a busy practice at Hazard Regional Hospital in Kentucky. During his resi-

dency years, he was involved, along with Dr. Ziyad Hamoudeh (WSUGS 2013) and Dr. Rebecca

Bachusz (WSUGS 2013), in operating upon a series of patients with massive localized lymphede-

ma (MLL). The three of them authored their WSU experience with this unusual disease. Dr.

Jabbar presented this experience at the Midwest Surgical Association, and their report was lat-

er published in American Surgeon (Jabbar F, et al. Am Surg 2015;209:584-587).

Recently, Dr. Jabbar was faced with a technical challenge when treating a morbidly obese pa-

tient with a huge asymmetric pannus and who had become bedridden because of the excess

weight. She subsequently developed DVT and PE before being referred to Dr. Jabbar. Her ex-

cessive obesity precluded a CT examination, so that Dr. Jabbar was unable to determine whether

there was a hernia at the origin of the MLL. After obtaining clearance from the appropriate med-

ical specialists, Dr. Jabbar performed a laparoscopic examination to confirm that there was no

hernia and then excised 34 pounds of MLL through a transverse oval incision. The patient did

quite well after operation and began walking again for the first time in many months. She is now in the pro-

cess of becoming stronger, after which Dr. Jabbar plans to do a laparoscopic vertical sleeve gastrectomy.

Dr. Jabbar can be reached at furrukh_jabbar@ yahoo.com.

During his student days, Dr. Marc Moon (WSUSOM 1988) published a paper dealing with free wa-

ter clearance after hemorrhagic shock. He then went on and finished his training in general sur-

gery and cardiothoracic surgery before becoming the chair of the Cardiovascular, Cardiac Sur-

gery Division at the Washington University in St. Louis. Marc sent a nice note to Dr. Anna Ledg-

erwood (WSUGS 1972) regarding her presidential address in April 2015 at the American Surgical

Association.

Dear Dr. Ledgerwood,

I am sorry I missed your presidential address last year because I had to be on the other end of the country

for association business, but I am glad I finally got to read it in the ASA transactions. You really hit the nail on

the head. Moving forward, we all have to work hard to maintain our mission in the setting of increasing bu-

reaucratic regulations, many of which, as you point out, don’t always make sense. Thank you for helping me

see the importance of the academic mission (and also thank Dr. Lucas) as well as the true impact of surgical

leadership and surgical mentorship at a very early age in my career. See you soon.

Marc

Dr. Furrukh Jabbar

Dr. Ziyad Hamoudeh

Dr. Rebecca

(Bachusz) Novo

Dr. Marc Moon


April 2016

REPORTS FROM THE OUTFIELD, cont..REPORTS FROM THE OUTFIELD, cont..

Dr. Kartheek Nagappala (WSUGS 2014) reports that he has passed his Oral Board Exam-

ination and wishes to thank all of the faculty members for their help in mentoring during

his residency years. He sent the following note.

Dear Drs. Lucas and Ledgerwood,

I trust that this bit of correspondence finds you both well. I wanted to let you both know that I

was able to take the qualifying exam in August last year and the certifying exam in St. Louis

earlier this week, and I passed both exams on the first attempt. I thank you both for keeping on

me when I performed poorly on the ABSITE during residency, and I thank you for all the time

you each took on rounds and on Sunday mornings to teach me.

Although I was able to see you both in person before I left Detroit, I feel that I never got to fully

relate to both of you the extent of the impact you have made on my life, in both a professional

and personal regard. My second rotation, my intern year was on the L/L service, and I was ill-

prepared for what I was about to face, having just finished a rotation at the VAMC. I quickly

learned that I needed to listen to my patients and that if I listened closely enough, they would

tell me what was wrong with them. I learned that I can get far more valuable information form

a thorough history and physical examination than I can from a CT scan. I learned that I should

think for myself and not blindly trust what a drug company or a company representative tells

me, that I should always question authority and not simply follow the rest of the herd. I learned

that the patient needs a doctor and that I may be the only one who can help them. I learned

that the heart is just a pump and that the kidney is the smartest organ in the body. I learned

that, without a deep understanding of human physiology, I will always be lost. I learned that

you both are the true definition of what it means to be teachers. I learned that I too can work

tirelessly and in a dedicated manner to improve the health of my patients and teach our craft to

medical students and residents alike. I am in awe and ever in debt to you both for all that you

have done for me over the years. I thank you both for being my mentors.

I look forward to seeing you both soon. I plan on being at this year’s trauma symposium and

hope to see you then. Take care.

Sincerely,

Kartheek Nagappala

You can congratulate at Kartheek at [email protected].

Dr. Kartheek

Nagappala


April 2016

March 21, 2016 Dear WSSS Alumni and Friends: The WSSS continues to thrive, offering support to our members and the current general surgery residents at WSU. As your presi-dent, I would like to summarize events of the last year, the status of the Society, and this year's calendar of events. The annual meeting of the WSSS is always on the Tuesday night of the ACS week. Last year the cocktail reception and dinner, host-ed by Chairman Donald Weaver, was attended by 62 members and guests. Remember, the dinner is free for members and the residents attend as guests of the WSSS. I was very proud of the accomplishments and future plans of our chiefs, who automatical-ly are members of the Society, dues-free for two years. The Annual Lectureship of the WSSS is always on the Wednesday before the Detroit Trauma Symposium (DTS). Last year the guest lecturer was Dr. Ronald Maier, Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington. A lively Morbidity and Mortality Conference preceded the Lecture. I attended the DTS for the third straight year and continue to be amazed by what my fellow chief resident, Dr. Larry Diebel, is able to accomplish. There is truly something for everyone, from lectures by world famous surgeons including WSU professors, sunrise hands-on sessions (didn't make those, too much gambling, but I heard rave reviews from attendees), pan-el discussions, and grilling of chief residents in the Detroit area by Dr. Lucas. The residents are more talented every year! The January-March Michael and Marian Ilitch Department of Surgery newsletter lists 117 members of the WSSS, including 54 Char-ter Life Members who have or will donate $10,000 to the Society, tax deductible! I am proud to tell you that we have over $200,000 in the bank and are in the process of investing a portion to ensure the Society will exist in perpetuity. Consider becoming a Life Member, invest in the future, some lucky resident may become your partner! This year the WSSS meeting will be on Tuesday, October 18, at the Renaissance in Washington DC. If you haven't been to an ACS meeting recently, this is the time to go; the meeting is always awesome, the WSSS cocktail reception and dinner will be awesome, and it is three weeks before a presidential election in our nation's Capitol! This year the guest lecturer of the WSSS will be Dr. Raul S. Coimbra, MD, PhD, FACS. Dr. Coimbra is Surgeon-in-Chief at the Univer-sity of California San Diego School of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Burns, and Acute Care Surgery. Besides being world famous with over 470 publications, I am told by my partner, who considers him his mentor, that he is a nice guy and a great surgeon. The WSSS dinner will be held Tuesday, November 8th at Giovanni's Ristorantè. Dr. Coimbra will be the honored guest, but the price is steep; he must answer truthfully all questions posed. The WSSS Lecture will be on Wednesday morning, November 9th and your new President, Dr. Brian Shapiro, will introduce Dr. Coimbra. Make plans to attend and stay for the DTS the next two days. Serving as your President the last two years has completed my surgical educational journey. Whatever happens in the future is just gravy. The WSU Department of Surgery and the WSSS is responsible for a large part of my modest success as a surgeon and I intend to support both, to the best of my ability, until the day I die. Sincerely,

Randall W. Smith, MD, FACS President, Wayne State Surgical Society

April 2016

Wayne State Surgical Society

2016 Dues Notice

Name:

Address:

City/State/Zip:

Service Description Amount

2015 Dues Payment ______________________________ $200__

My contribution for “An Operation A Year for WSU” _______

*Charter Life Member ___________________________ $1000__

Total Paid_______________________________________________

Payment by Credit Card

Include your credit card information below and mail it or fax it to

313-993-7729.

Credit Card Number:_________________________________________

Type: MasterCard Visa Expiration Date: (MM/YY)__________

Name as it appears on card:__________________________________

Signature:__________________________________________________

Billing address of card (if different from above):

Street Address______________________________________________

City______________________ State____________ Zip Code_______

*I want to commit to becoming a charter life member with payment of $1000

per year for the next ten (10) years.

Send check made payable to Wayne State Surgical Society to:

Charles Lucas, MD

Department of Surgery

Detroit Receiving Hospital, Room 2V

4201 St. Antoine Street

Detroit, Michigan 48201

MARK YOUR

CALENDARS American Surgical Association

Chicago, Illinois

April 14-16, 2016

Michigan Chapter of the ACS

Mackinac Island, Michigan

May 18-20, 2016

Midwest Surgical Association

Mackinac Island, Michigan

August 7-10, 2016

AAST 75th Annual Meeting

Waikoloa, Hawaii

September 14-17, 2016

Please Update Your

Information

The WSUSOM Department of

Surgery wants to stay in touch.

Please email Charles Lucas at clu-

[email protected] to update

your contact information.

April 2016

WSU MONTLY CONFERENCES

2016

Death & Complications Conference Didactic Lectures—8 am

Every Wednesday from 7-8 Margherio Conference Center

Wednesday, April 13

Death & Complications Conference

“MIS for the Acute Care Surgeon”

Jose Fernandez, MD

Mike & Marian Ilitch WSU Department of Surgery

Wednesday, April 20


“Human Nature & personal Experience: The Surgeons Worst Enemies”

R. Lawrence Moss, MD

The Ohio State University Department of Surgery

Wednesday, April 27


“ECMO”

Jeremy Ciullo, MD

“Mike & Marian Ilitch WSU Department of Surgery

April 2016

Missing Emails

Over the years the WSU Department of Surgery has lost touch with many of its alumni. If you know the email, ad-

dress, 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)

Mohammad Ali (1973)

David B. Allen (1992)

Tayful R. Ayalp (1979)

Robert C. Birks (1970)

Juan C. Calzetta (1982)

Sebastian J. Campagna (1969)

Kuan-Cheng Chen (1976)

Elizabeth Colaiuta (2001)

Fernando I. Colon (1991)

David Davis (1984)

Teoman Demir (1996)

Judy A. Emanuele (1997)

Lawrence J. Goldstein (1993)

David M. Gordon (1993)

Raghuram Gorti (2002)

Karin Haji (1973)

Morteza Hariri (1970)

Abdul A. Hassan (1971)

S. Amjad Hussain (1970)

Rose L. Jumah (2006)

R. Kambhampati (2003)

Aftab Khan (1973)

Mark Leiser (1996)

Samuel D. Lyons (1988)

Dean R. Marson (1997)

Syed A. Mehmood (2007)

Mehul M. Mehta (1992)

Toby Meltzer (1987)

Roberto Mendez (1997)

Mark D. Morasch (1998)

Daniel J. Olson (1993)

David Packer (1998)

Daniel S. Paley (2003)

Y. Park (1972)

Bhavik G. Patel (2004)

Michael M. Peikoff (1970)

Jerome P. Pucelik (1966)

Everton Quadros (1968)

Ami Raafat (1998)

Kevin Radecki (2001)

Sudarshan R. Reddy (1984)

Edgar Roman (1971)

Renato G. Ruggiero (1994)

Parvid Sadjadi (1971)

Samson P. Samuel (1996)

Knavery D. Scaff (2003)

Steven C. Schueller (1974)

Anand G. Shah (2005)

Anil Shetty (2008)

Chanderdeep Singh (2002)

Raj A. Sukhnandan (1966)

D. Sukumaran (1972)

David G. Tse (1997)

Christopher N. Vashi (2007)

Carlos M. Villafane (1990)

Larry A. Wolk (1984)

Peter Y. Wong (2002)

Shane Yamane (2005)

Chungie Yang (2005)

Hossein A. Yazdy (1970)

Lester S. Young (2008)

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 chair-

man of the Department of Surgery. WSSS was designed to create closer contact between the current fac-

ulty 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. Mark A. Herman (WSU/GS/1994/2001) passed the baton of presidency to Dr. Randall W.

Smith (WSU/GS 1981/86) at the WSSS Gathering during the American College of Surgeons meeting in Oc-

tober 2014. Members of the WSSS are listed on the next page. Dr. Smith 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.

April 2016

Members of the Wayne State Surgical Society

Charter Life Members

Ahn, Dean

Albaran, Renato G

Allaben, Robert

Ames, Elliot L.

Amerikia, Kathryn C.

Auer, George

Bassett, Joseph

Baylor, Alfred

Bouwman, David

Cirocco, William C.

Clink, Douglas

Colon, Fernando I.

Conway, W. Charles

Davidson, Scott B.

Edelman, David

Flynn, Lisa M.

Fromm, Stefan H.

Fromm, David G

Galpin, Peter A.

Gerrick Stanley

Grifka Thomas J.

(Deceased)

Gutowski, Tomasz D.

Herman, Mark A.

Holmes, Robert J.

Huebl, Herbert C.

Johnson, Jeffrey R.

Johnson, Pamela D.

Kovalik, Simon G.

Lange, William

(Deceased)

Lau, David

Ledgerwood, Anna M.

Lim, John J.

Lucas, Charles E.

Malian, Michael S.

McIntosh, Bruce

Montenegro, Carlos E.

Narkiewicz, Lawrence

Novakovic, Rachel

Ramnauth, Subhash

Rector, Frederick

Rose, Alexander

Rosenberg, Jerry C.

Sarin, Susan

Shapiro, Brian

Smith, Daniel

Smith, Randall W.

Stassinopoulos, Jerry

vonBerg, Vollrad J.

(Deceased)

Washington, Bruce C.

Walt, Alexander

(Deceased)

Weaver, Donald

Whittle, Thomas J.

Wilson, Robert F.

Wood, Michael H.

Zahriya, Karim

Members of the Wayne State Surgical Society—2016 Dues

Gallick, Harold L.

Lam, John

Hoesel, Laszlo

Missavage, Anne

White, Michael T.

Operation-A-Year

January 1—December 31, 2016

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.

Cirocco, William J.

Gutowski, Tomasz D.

Whittle Thomas J.

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