Surgeons

John C. Magee, M.D.

Surgical Director, Pediatric Abdominal Transplant
Associate Professor, General Surgery

Dr. John Magee is an Associate Professor in the Section of General Surgery, Division of Transplantation. Dr. Magee received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College. He completed his General Surgery residency at the University of Michigan in 1996. During his residency, Dr. Magee spent three years as a research fellow in the Department of Surgery at Duke University Medical Center. He also completed the Post Doctoral Research Training Program at the University of Michigan. Following general surgery training, he completed a two year multi-organ transplant surgery fellowship at the University of Michigan. He joined the faculty in 1998.

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Darrell A. Campbell, Jr., M.D.

Henry King Ransom Professor of Surgery
Chief of Clinical Affairs
Professor, General Surgery

Dr. Campbell received his BS degree in zoology from Michigan State University in 1968, and graduated with distinction from George Washington University, receiving an MD degree in 1972. Subsequently, Dr. Campbell received his General Surgery training at the University of Michigan Medical School from 1972 through 1979. During this period, he spent two years as an investigator in the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, working in the laboratory of Ronald B. Herberman, Chief of Immunodiagnostics. Following General Surgery training, Dr. Campbell began his special interest in transplantation, a field which he has pursued and in which he continues to be actively involved. Dr. Campbell spent six months on sabbatical with Professor Sir Roy Calne learning the intricacies of liver transplantation in Cambridge, England, in 1986.

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Michael J. Englesbe, M.D.

Assistant Professor, General Surgery

Michael J. Englesbe, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Transplant Surgery. Dr. Englesbe received his undergraduate degree at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut in 1993. He went on to obtain his medical degree in 1997 from UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center and completed his general surgery residency at the University of Michigan Health System in 2004. From 2000 to 2002, Dr. Englesbe did a research fellowship in vascular biology at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Englesbe completed a two year felloship in transplant surgery at the University of Michigan in June of 2006. In July 2006, he joined the faculty in the same Transplant Division.

Dr. Englesbe's clinical interests focus on liver transplantation. His research interests are intimal hyperplasia and transfusions.

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Robert M. Merion, M.D.

Professor, General Surgery

Dr. Robert Merion is a Professor of Surgery in the Division of Transplantation. Dr. Merion served for ten years as the Chief of the Division and as Director of the University of Michigan Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program before assuming his current responsibilities as Clinical Transplant Director for the federally funded Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR). Dr. Merion was graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1979 and competed a residency training program in general surgery in the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan in 1986. During his residency, he spent two years with Sir Roy Y. Calne, FRS, in Cambridge, England, where he studied transplantation immunology and completed a clinical fellowship in abdominal organ transplantation. Dr. Merion has been a member of the faculty of the Department of Surgery since 1986. He also serves as the director of the University of Michigan's American Society of Transplant Surgeons-approved fellowship training program in kidney, pancreas, and liver transplantation.

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Shawn J. Pelletier, M.D.

Assistant Professor, General Surgery

Shawn J. Pelletier, MD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation Surgery at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, Michigan.   Dr. Pelletier received his medical degree from Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1996.   He completed his General Surgery residency in 2003, at the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center in Charlottesville, Virginia.   Dr. Pelletier went on to complete a two year fellowship in Transplant Surgery at the University of Michigan Health System, and joined the faculty in July of 2005.

Dr. Pelletier's clinical interests focus on all aspects of abdominal organ transplantation.   His research interests focus on surgical infections and the recurrence of viral hepatitis in transplant patients.

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Jeffrey D. Punch, M.D.

Director, Transplant Center
Associate Professor, General Surgery

Dr. Jeffrey Punch is an Associate Professor and Chief of the Division of Transplantation in the Section of General Surgery. Dr. Punch received his medical degree from the University of Michigan. During his residency he did a Research Fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Rile Rees at the Ann Arbor Veteran's Hospital studying tissue injury associated with ischemia-reperfusion. Upon completion of his general surgery residency at the University of Michigan, Dr. Punch was appointed as the University of Michigan Transplantation Fellow and Lecturer in Surgery. He completed this two year multi-organ transplantation fellowship in which he was trained to perform kidney, pancreas, and liver transplant procedures. During this time he also completed the University of Michigan Molecular Biology Course. Following the completion of his training, he was certified by the Organ Procurement Organization of Michigan to perform kidney, pancreas, and liver retrieval procedures. He also was board certified in both General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care.

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Randall Sung, M.D.

Surgical Director, Kidney Transplant
Surgical Director, Pancreas Transplant
Assistant Professor, General Surgery

Dr. Randall Sung is an Assistant Professor in the Section of General Surgery, Division of Transplantation Surgery. Dr. Sung graduated with a degree in Biochemical Science from Harvard University in 1985. He received his medical degree and completed his surgical residency at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York City. In 1997, following the completion of his surgical residency, Dr. Sung began a two year fellowship in Transplant Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical Center. He subsequently joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. In 2002, Dr. Sung returned to the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor in the Transplant Surgery Division.

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Jeremiah G. Turcotte, M.D.

Professor Emeritus, General Surgery

Dr. Jeremiah Turcotte is a Professor Emeritus of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School. Within the Department he is a member of the Division of Transplant Surgery in the Section of General Surgery. Dr. Turcotte obtained his medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1957 and completed his residency in general surgery at Michigan in 1963. He was certified in General Surgery in 1964 and Surgical Critical Care in 1986. While active he served as Chairman of the Department of Surgery, Head of the Section of General Surgery, Director of the Liver Transplant Center and Liver Transplant Program and Chairman of the Professional Fee Management Policy Committee. He was a Director of the American Board of Surgery and a member of the Residency Review Committee. On December 31, 2000 Dr. Turcotte retired from active faculty status and was appointed Professor Emeritus. He remains active in education, clinical research and regional and national organizations.

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Theodore H. Welling III, M.D.

Assistant Professor, General Surgery

Theodore H. Welling, III, M.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Section of General Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery. Dr. Welling received his medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1999 and went on to complete his General Surgery residency in 2005. Dr. Welling then completed a two year fellowship in Transplant Surgery at the University of Michigan Health System, and joined the faculty in July 2007.

Dr. Welling's clinical interests are in liver transplantation and hepatobiliary surgery. His research interests are in the fields of liver tumor immunology, therapy of hepatic malignancy, and liver transplant outcomes.

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Nephrologists (for Pediatric Patients)

David B. Kershaw, M.D.

Interim Medical Director, Pediatric Renal Transplant Program

Dr. David Kershaw received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. He completed his training in pediatrics in 1991 and his pediatric nephrology fellowship at the University of Michigan in 1994. His clinical interests include glomerulonephritis and nephrotic syndrome. He joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1993. Dr. Kershaw is currently serving as the Interim Medical Director of the Pediatric Renal Transplant Program.

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Katherine Louise Collins, M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatric Nephrology

Dr. Katherine Louise Collins received her medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in 2001. She completed her pediatric residency in 2005, at Dalhousie University. In 2007, she completed her pediatric nephrology fellowship at Dalhousie University and the University of Toronto. Her clinical interests include renal transplantation, continuous venovenous hemodialysis, and chronic renal failure. Research interests include chronic renal failure and continuous venovenous hemodialysis. She joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in August, 2007.

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Friedhelm Hildebrandt, M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatric Nephrology

Dr. Friedhelm Hildebrandt received his medical degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1984. He completed his pediatric residency in 1992, at Freiburg University Medical School, Germany. Between 1987 and 1990, he performed a postdoctoral fellowship in nephrology at Yale University School of Medicine. His clinical interests include hereditary renal disease. Research interests include gene identification in hereditary renal diseases, nephronophthisis, medullary cystic kidney disease, nephrotic syndrome, urinary tract malformations and animal models of hereditary renal disease. He joined the faculty at the University of Michigan as a full professor in September 2001 and is currently a Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Susan E. Thomas, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatric Nephrology

Dr. Susan Thomas received her medical degree from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in 1992. She completed her pediatric nephrology fellowship at Seattle Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in 1998. Her clinical interests include outcomes following pediatric renal transplantation, novel immunosuppression protocols for pediatric renal transplant recipients, general pediatric nephrology, acute and chronic renal failure and nephropathic cystinosis. She joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1999.

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Pharmacists

Jeong Mi Park, M.S., PharmD, BCPS

Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy

Dr. Jeong Mi (Jamie) Park completed her education as a PharmD at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. She continued her post-doctoral training as a transplant immunology fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington and, then, her pharmacy practice residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. In 2002 Dr. Park joined the faculty of the University of Michigan.

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