Distinguished Achievement Award
Peter Ward, M.D.
Peter Ward (M.D. 1960, Residency 1963), Godfrey D. Stobbe Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan, graduated from University High School in Ann Arbor in 1952. After his academic training at the U-M, he interned at Bellevue Hospital in New York, was a resident in the Department of Pathology at the U-M Medical School, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, Division of Experimental Pathology, in La Jolla, California. He was a professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Connecticut, from 1971- 80, and chairman from 1973-80. Ward served as professor and chair of the U-M Department of Pathology from 1980-2005. He was interim dean of the U-M Medical School from 1982-85. He has been president of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, the American Board of Pathology, the American Society for Experimental Pathology, and Universities Associated for Education and Research in Pathology.
His awards and honors include the Borden Research Award from the U-M Medical School, election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, to the American Association for the Advancement of Science and to the National Academies of Science.
Ward’s research interests involve molecular mechanisms of the inflammatory response. His research activities relate to mediators and regulators of the inflammatory response, with a particular emphasis on cytokines, complement and protease inhibitors.