“The bottom line is, after 30 years in Boston, I wanted to ‘bookend’ my career by coming back to Michigan and teaching full-time. I’ve always been proud of my Michigan heritage and now I’m back here – and I really love it!”
“I personally enjoy sharing my enthusiasm for surgery as a career. Showing a medical student their first transplant… it’s a miracle every time. I love seeing medical students turn into confident young clinicians. And I love that my partners, trainees and students teach me things every day.”
It is time to build an endowment that will fund the surgical residency research years in perpetuity.
Fifty years ago, U-M surgeon Robert Bartlett helped invent a life-saving procedure called Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO). Now researchers are using the next-generation of ECMO to give lungs a new life.
