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JOHN ALEXANDER SOCIETY

MEMBERS 1928-PRESENT

JOHN ALEXANDER 1928-1954, Section Head 

Frank S. Dolley, MD 1928-1930

Julian A. Moore, MD 1928-1930

William W. Buckingham, MD 1928-1930

Warriner Woodruff, MD 1930-1932

H. P. Nelson, MD 1931-1933

Cameron Haight, MD 1931-1934

John C. Jones, MD 1931-1934

J. Dewey Bisgard, MD 1932-1934

Duane M. Carr, MD 1932-1934

John W. Streider, MD 1933-1935

Laurence W. Nehil, MD 1934-1936

Paul C. Samson, MD 1934-1936

John D. Steele, MD 1935-1936

Edgar W. Davis, MD 1935-1936

Herbert C. Maier, MD 1936-1938

Robert R. Shaw, MD 1936-1938

James B. Blackman, MD 1936-1938

Lyman A. Brewer, MD 1937-1939

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Adrian A. Ehler, MD 1937-1939

George Sommer, Jr., MD 1937-1939

J. Maxwell Chamberlain, MD 1938-1940

Robert C. Major, MD 1938-1940

Howard T. Barkley, MD 1939-1940

James H. Laurey, MD 1939-1941

Hiram T. Langston, MD 1939-1941

Marion L. White, MD 1940-1942

Paul O'Rourke, MD 1940-1942

Earle B. Kay, MD 1940-1942

Winfield O.Kelley, MD 1941-1943

Robert W. Buxton, MD 1941-1943

F. Dewey Dodrill, MD 1941-1943

Chai-ssu Haung, MD 1941-1943

Francis X. Byron, MD 1942-1944

Carlos A. Peschiera, MD 1942-1944

Russell Hollingsworth, MD 1943-1944

Ivan N. Ingram, MD 1944-1945

Ernesto R. Iglesias, MD 1943-1945

Cesar Rodriguez, MD 1943-1945

George R. Minor, MD 1944-1946

John C. Crenshaw, MD 1944-1946

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Josiah C. Trent, MD 1945-1947

Frances W. O'Donnell, MD 1945-1947

Rodger E. MacQuigg, MD 1946-1948

J. Ray Bryant, MD 1946-1948

Byron H. Evans, MD 1946-1948

William M. Lees, MD 1946-1948

Herbert E. Sloan, MD 1947-1949

John G. Chesney, MD 1947-1949

Clifford F. Storey, MD 1947-1949

Clarence Olson, MD 1947-1949

John S. Chambers, Jr., MD 1948-1950

Buford W. Davis, MD 1948-1950

Neil H. Sullenberger, MD 1948-1950

Edgar P. Mannix, Jr., MD 1948-1950

John E. Miller, MD 1948-1950

Robert L. Taylor, MD 1949-1951

R. Adams Cowley, MD 1949-1951

Samuel J. Greer, MD 1949-1951

Charles E. O’Brien, MD 1949-1951

W. Arnold McAlpine, MD 1949-1951

Samuel M. McDaniel, MD 1950-1952

Richard H. Adler, MD 1950-1952

H. Harper Kerr, MD 1950-1952

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Wesley T. Fry, MD 1950-1952

Francis S. Gerbasi, MD 1951-1953

Clyde E. Rush, MD 1951-1953

Delbert D. Neis, MD 1951-1953

William C. Gardner, MD 1951-1953

William J. Langlois, MD 1951-1953

Morris H. O’Dell, MD 1951-1953

John P. Carter, MD 1952-1954

W. Porter Mayo, MD 1952-1954

R. Maurice Hood, MD 1952-1954

James E. Cousar III, MD 1952-1954

Joe D. Morris, MD 1952-1954

James A. S. Wilson, MD 1953-1955

Edward P. Smith, Jr., MD 1953-1955

Carl J. Impellitier, MD 1953-1955

W. Fielding Rubel, MD 1953-1955

Richard S. Hahn, MD 1953-1955

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CAMERON HAIGHT, MD 1954-1970, Section Head

Paul J. Sullivan, MD 1954-1956

Dale O. Porter, MD 1954-1956

Edward J. Klopp, Jr., MD 1954-1956

Roger F. Milnes, MD 1954-1956

Philip L. Nova, MD 1954-1956

Howard C. Hewitt, MD 1955-1957

Graydon A. Long, MD 1955-1957

Benjamin F. Scott, MD 1955-1957

John Paul Stamer, Jr., MD 1955-1957

Joe Burge, MD 1956-1958

Donald W. Edwards, MD 1956-1958

Waverly J. Ellsworth, MD 1956-1958

Cameron Morrison, MD 1956-1958

Rients VanderWoude, MD 1956-1958

A. Malcolm Cameron, MD 1957-1959

Edward W. Jenkins, MD 1957-1959

Paul J. Ovando, MD 1957-1959

John A. Meyer, MD 1957-1959

T. Calvin Blair, MD 1957-1959 Bruce F. Baisch, MD 1958-1960

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Frederick B. Berry, MD 1958-1960

David A. Blumenstock, MD 1958-1960

James W. MacKenzie, MD 1958-1960

Robert C. Boullon, MD 1959-1961

Richard B. McElvein, MD 1959-1961

Peter A. Missier, MD 1959-1961

Beryl L. Harberg, MD 1960-1962

Robert D. Weber, MD 1960-1962

Homer S. Arnold, MD 1960-1962

Kelly M. Berkley, MD 1960-1962

Jim H. Calhoon, MD 1961-1963

Donald R. Kahn, MD 1961-1963

Francis J. Kenney, Jr., MD 1961-1963

David A. Penner, MD 1961-1964

Clif S. Hamilton, Jr., MD 1962-1964

John C. Norman, MD 1962-1964

Joseph C. Donnelly, MD 1963-1965

Chris A. Lutes, MD 1963-1965

John N. Pittman, MD 1963-1965

Frederick K. Vontz, MD 1963-1965

William J. Foley, MD 1964-1966

Bernard J. Leininger, MD 1964-1966

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Richard L. White, MD 1964-1966

Sathaporn Vathayanon, MD 1964-1967

Otto Gago, MD 1965-1967

Charles H. Peller, MD 1965-1967

Jorge O. Just-Viera, MD 1965-1967

R. Thomas McLaughlin, MD 1965-1967

Kenneth H. Oberheu, MD 1966-1968

Marvin M. Kirsh, MD 1966-1968

Nils Parson, MD 1966-1968

Yenching Wu, MD 1966-1968

Stephen Z. Turney, MD 1967-1969

Louis F. Anastasia, MD 1967-1969

Arnold G. Mulder, MD 1967-1969

James J. McHale, Jr., MD 1967-1969

James E. Herlocher, MD 1968-1970

Gilbert Herod, MD 1968-1970

Thomas O. Orvald, MD 1968-1970

Robert A. Tate, MD 1968-1970

Paramjeet S. Chopra, MD 1969-1971

James W. Delavan, MD 1969-1971

Rolf C. Sommerhaug, MD 1969-1971

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HERBERT SLOAN 1970-1985, Section Head

Herbert Berkoff, MD 1970-1972

James H. Hilz, MD 1970-1972

John Mayer, MD 1970-1972

Ronald Pellegrini, MD 1970-1972

Lee H. Ellison, MD 1971-1973

John S. McCabe, MD 1971-1973

Frank M. Midgley, MD 1971-1973

Mark B. Orringer, MD 1971-1973

Harvey C. Sanders, MD 1971-1973

Laman A. Gray, Jr., MD 1972-1974

Alan Hunter, MD 1972-1974

William Y. Moores, MD 1972-1974

David E. Warner, MD 1972-1974

Robert D. Willix, MD 1972-1975

Lawrence Mills, MD 1973-1975

Michael Prior, MD 1973-1975

Nicholas C. Bosch, MD 1974-1976

James Byrne, MD 1974-1976

Alkiviadis Michalis, MD 1975-1977

David Melvin, MD 1975-1977

Jeffrey M. Dunn, MD 1975-1978

Charles M. O'Brien, MD 1975-1978

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John W. Brown, MD 1976-1978

Steven S. Demos, MD 1976-1978

David A. Hughes, MD 1976-1978

Richard L. Prager, MD 1976-1978

Edward L. Bove, MD 1977-1979

Gene W. Manzetti, MD 1977-1979

Nadiv Shapira, MD 1977-1979

Ross DiMarco, MD 1978-1980

Alan C. Peterson, MD 1978-1980

Michael H. Schatzlein, MD 1978-1980

Charles H. Campbell, MD 1978-1980

Jeffrey K. Hoffman, MD 1979-1981

Robert J. Porter, MD 1979-1981

Christopher Jones, MD 1980-1982

John T. Matthews, MD 1980-1982

Dwaine J. Peetz, MD 1980-1982

Paul E. Clancy, MD 1981-1983

William C. Nugent, MD 1981-1983

David A. Slater, MD 1981-1983

John H. Bell, MD 1982-1984

Kevin Casey, MD 1982-1984

Daniel M. Goldfaden, MD 1982-1984

Steven R. Gundry, MD 1982-1984

Rodney J. Landreneau, MD 1983-1985

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Leon N. Sykes, MD 1983-1985

Gerhard H. Mundinger, MD 1984-1986

Robert D. Stewart, MD 1984-1986

Joseph Zwischenberger, MD 1984-1986

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MARK B. ORRINGER 1985-1999, Section Head

Mark J. Botham, MD 1985-1987

John H. Lemmer, Jr., MD 1985-1987

Mack C. Stirling, MD 1985-1987

Joe B. Putnam, Jr., MD 1986-1988

Michael K. Bluett, MD 1986-1988

Randall W. Buss, MD 1986-1988

Martin J. Lynch, MD 1987-1989

Edward F. Lundy, MD 1987-1989

Dave J. Underhill, MD 1987-1989

Daniel M. Drake, MD 1988-1991

Thomas D. Starkey, MD 1988-1991

Thomas P. Barragry, MD 1989-1991

Ara K. Pridjian, MD 1989-1991

David S. Saint, MD 1989-1991

Robert S. Walsh, MD 1989-1991

Edward Y. Sako, MD 1990-1992

Thomas A. Vassiliades, Jr., MD 1990-1992

Richard I. Whyte, MD 1990-1992

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David R. Goff, MD 1991-1993

Mark D. Iannettoni, MD 1991-1993

David S. Schrump, MD 1991-1993

Scott M. Bradley, MD 1992-1994

Jay I. LaBourene, MD 1992-1994

Robert J. Wiechmann, MD 1992-1994

Cynthia N. Steimle, MD 1993-1995

Francis D. Pagani, MD, PhD 1993-1995

V. Simon Abraham, MD 1994-1996

Lucian A. Durham, MD 1994-1996

Peter J. Molinaro, MD 1994-1996

Timothy L. Sell, MD 1994-1996

Kenneth McCurry, MD 1995-1997

Joseph Lahorra, MD 1996-1998

Michael Mulligan, MD 1996-1998

William Rachwal, MD 1996-1998

Angelo Vlessis, MD 1996-1998

John Yee, MD 1996-1998

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MARK B. ORRINGER General Thoracic Surgery, Section Head

EDWARD L. BOVE Cardiac Surgery, Section Head

1999-2011

Iva Smolens, MD 1997-1999

Jeffrey Everett, MD 1997-1999

Neil Devejian, MD 1997-1999

Michael Eppinger, MD 1998-2000

Kenneth Fox, MD 1998-2000

David Polidori, MD 1998-2000

Eric Devaney, MD 1999-2001

Charles Hoopes, MD 1999-2001

Srinivas Kolla, MD 1999-2001

Shahab Akhter, MD 2000-2002

Andrew Chang, MD 2000-2002

Himanshu Patel, MD 2000-2002

David Kulick, MD 2001-2003

William Lynch, MD 2001-2003

Kanti Uppal, MD 2001-2003

Sang Lee, MD 2002-2004

Santosh Krishnan, MD 2002-2004

Allan Pickens, MD 2002-2004

Jennifer C. Hirsch, MD 2003-2005

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Sanjeev Aggarwal, MD 2003-2005

Jonathan W. Haft, MD 2003-2005

John Grehan, MD 2004-2006

I-wen Wang, MD 2004-2006

Leonard Wudel, MD 2004-2006

David Ashburn, MD 2005-2007 *

Matthew Romano, MD 2005-2007

Thomas Varghese, MD 2005-2007

David Cooke, MD 2006-2008

Ming-Sing Si, MD 2006-2008

Daniel Tang, MD 2006-2008

Mir Wasif Ali, MD 2007-2009

Cosmin Dobrescu, MD 2007-2009

Nikhilesh Korgaonkar, MD 2007-2009

Jennifer Chan, MD 2008-2010

Steven Bibevski, MD 2009-2011

Lynn Huffman, MD 2009-2011

Ki Wan Kim, MD 2009-2011

*Died in U-M transplant donor run helicopter crash - June 2007

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ANDREW C. CHANG General Thoracic Surgery, Section Head

EDWARD L. BOVE Chairman, Department of Cardiac Surgery

2012 - 2018

Jennifer Nelson, MD 2010-2012 Jennifer Wan, MD 2010-2012 Jason Long, MD 2011-2013 Immanuel Turner, MD 2011-2013 Kristopher B. Deatrick, MD 2012-2014 Michelle Ellis, MD 2012-2014 David Spurlock, MD 2013-2015 Peter Sassalos, MD 2013-2015 Kiran Lagisetty, MD 2014-2016 Joseph D. Phillips, MD 2014-2016 Claude Beaty, Jr., MD 2015-2017 Crystal J. Erickson, MD 2015-2017 Terry Shih, MD 2016-2018 Stephanie G. Worrell, MD 2016-2018

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ANDREW C. CHANG

General Thoracic Surgery, Section Head

RICHARD L. PRAGER Interim Chair, Department of Cardiac Surgery

2018 - 2020

Tyler Grenda, MD 2017-2019 Reilly Hobbs, MD 2017-2019 Vikram Sood, MD* 2013-2019 Jennifer Burg, MD 2018-2020 Carlo Rosati, MD 2018-2020 Kellianne Kleeman, MD* 2014-2020 *I-6 Integrated Residency

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ANDREW C. CHANG General Thoracic Surgery, Section Head

GORAV AILAWADI Chair, Department of Cardiac Surgery

2020 - Present

Caitlin Demarest, MD 2019-2021

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RICHARD G. OHYE Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Section Head

2008 - Present

Ming-Sing Si, MD* 2008-2009 Minoo Kavarana, MD 2009-2010 Daniel DiBardino, MD 2010-2011 Steve Bibevski, MD* 2011-2012 Jennifer Nelson, MD* 2012-2013 Immanuel Turner, MD* 2013-2014 Kristopher B. Deatrick, MD* 2014-2015 Peter Sassalos, MD* 2015-2017 Claude Beaty, MD* 2017-2018 Robert Sorabella, MD 2018-2019 Vikram Sood, MD* 2019-2020 Reilly Hobbs, MD* 2019-2021 Kellianne Kleeman, MD* 2020-2022 *University of Michigan Thoracic Surgery Residency graduate

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ADVANCED CARDIAC SURGERY FELLOWS 2010 - Present

John Stulak, MD 2010–2011

Faraz Masood, MD 2013–2014

Gordan Samoukovic, MD 2014–2015

Syed Murfad Peer, MD 2015-2016

Matthew Valdis, MD 2018-2020

Habib Jabagi, MD 2020-2021

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FACULTY MEMBERS G. Michael Deeb, MD 1986 Steven F. Bolling, MD 1986 Richard G. Ohye, MD 2000 Jules Lin, MD 2008 Rishindra M. Reddy, MD 2009 Bo Yang, MD, PhD 2011 Karen M. Kim, MD 2015 Paul C. Tang, MD, PhD 2017 Shinichi Fukuhara, MD 2018

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HONORARY MEMBERS 2005

Robert Barlett, MD

John Calhoon, MD

Edward Diethrich, MD

Dick and Norma Sarns

Walter Whitehouse, Sr., MD (Posthumously)