Department Chair
Welcome from the Department Chair
On behalf of our faculty, residents, and staff, I would like to welcome you to the Department of Surgical Services. We are dedicated to聽creating a culture of excellence in all domains of academic medicine and embrace health care equity. The centerpiece of our department鈥檚 vision is the development of the medical student and the surgical resident. We celebrate over 100 faculty and have created strong relationships with our community healthcare systems. We also have developed a resident rotation that emphasizes rural surgical care and have created international rotations. Currently, we have organized the Department of Surgical Services into four major divisions: General Surgery, Surgical Oncology, Orthopaedic Surgery, and Medical Engineering. This has allowed us to provide comprehensive education in surgical care. We have also developed our Laboratory for Advanced Anatomy and Bioskills that allows our medical students and residents opportunities to further develop their surgical skills.聽聽
Our outpatient services are located at the medical school鈥檚 Oakland Drive Campus and provides a patient-centered experience with expert care. Together, our team sees patients for surgical consultation, provides postoperative surgical care in follow-up, and performs minor procedures. In addition to our team of physicians, our staff includes physician assistants, skill nurses and medical assistants, as well as experienced social service workers and radiology technicians who work together as a team to meet our patients' needs. Our physicians also provide inpatient care for patients at Ascension Borgess Hospital, Bronson Methodist Hospital, and West Michigan Cancer Center.聽
These offerings have allowed us a great opportunity to improve surgical care for our community, to enhance faculty development, an optimize surgical education for our medical students and residents.聽