The Department of Surgery and Critical Care Fellowship Program welcomes our newest fellow, Dr. Larry Ansari.  Dr. Ansari is a board certified general surgeon who has practiced for several years and is expanding his interests into trauma and critical care.  He attended medical school at Michigan State University and completed his general surgery residency at St. Elizabeth Health Center, associated with North Eastern Ohio Colleges of Medicine (NEOCOM) in Youngstown, Ohio.  We welcome Dr. Ansari to our Department who began on December 1. 

Members of the MSU Surgery will be collaborating with community physicians and Sparrow Hospital to launch a new state of the art interdisciplinary wound management center.  The Wound and Hyperbaric Clinic will offerhyperbaric oxygen therapy, wound dressings, wound debridement, bio-engineered tissue substitutes, and negative pressure wound therapy among other services.  Dr. Marc Basson has been named the Medical Director of the center and along with Drs. Saxe and Lanigan, will provide services for the center.   For more information, contact our offices (517-267-2460) or call the Wound Center directly at 517-364-7750.   

Link to Wound and Hyperbaric  Clinic:    http://www.sparrow.org/wound

Announcing two chairs of surgery for the CHM

Effective immediately, the College of Human Medicine Department of Surgery will have two chairs: Marc Basson, M.D., chair of the Department of Surgery (East) and Ashraf Mansour, M.D., interim chair, Department of Surgery (West).

Many of you know Dr. Mansour, professor, Department of Surgery, program director of the Vascular Surgery Fellowship in Grand Rapids, and director of the College of Human Medicine Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. Dr. Mansour joined Spectrum Health in 2002 and is a member of the Spectrum Health Medical Group and is chief of cardiovascular surgery.

Dr. Srinivas Kavuturu trained as a general surgery in India and became a Fellow in the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.   He completed a new residency in general surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, followed by two fellowships at Hershey; one in surgical oncology and one in minimally invasive foregut surgery.  Dr. Kavuturu’s research interests include outcomes studies and the development of new minimally invasive technology.  Dr. Kavuturu will focus his practice on both surgical oncology and benign minimally invasive robotic foregut surgery such as antireflux procedures for GERD.  He will operate at both Sparrow and Ingham Hospitals after joining the faculty on October 1, 2011 as an Assistant Professor.  

Dr. Harvey Bumpers is a senior and broadly experienced surgical oncologist who most recently served as Professor and Interim Chair of Surgery at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA. He also served as Director of Surgical Oncology and Breast Services where he received numerous awards as an outstanding clinician and educator. He has research interests in the genomics of cancer and the translational application of nanotechnology to cancer care. His academic efforts have been supported by both the NIH and the Department of Defense. Dr. Bumpers will focus his practice on breast care in the community and will operate primarily out of Sparrow Hospital. He will join our Department as Professor and Director of the MSU Breast Program effective November 1, 2011.

The Department welcomes Dr. Dinesh Vyas, MD, assistant professor, as the newest member to the clinical faculty, beginning in July 2011. Dr. Vyas is a general surgeon with interests in minimally invasive surgery, laparoscopic hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery, and trauma care. He comes to us from St. John Mercy Medical Center in Washington, MO, following completion of his residency with Case Western Reserve University. His interests in research are related to nanotechnology and cellular biology and physiology.