Faculty Books

David L. Brown, M.D. (Fellowship 2001), associate professor of plastic surgery and medical director of the Plastic Surgery Ambulatory Care Unit; and Benjamin Levi, M.D. (Residencies 2006 and 2013), assistant professor of plastic surger y, co-edited Michigan Manual of Plastic Surgery, second edition, Wolters Kluwer, 2014.

Davoren Chick, M.D., associate professor in the departments of Internal Medicine and of Learning Health Sciences; and Vincent Young, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of internal medicine and of microbiology and immunology, coauthored Blueprints Medicine, sixth edition, Wolters Kluwer, 2015.

Raymond S. Douglas, M.D. Ph.D., professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, coedited Thyroid Eye Disease, Springer, 2015.

Joel Greenson (M.D. 1984), professor of pathology, co-authored Diagnostic Pathology: Gastrointestinal, second edition, 2015, Elsevier. Greenson also coedited Sternberg's Diagnostic Surgical Pathology, sixth edition, Wolters Kluwer, 2015.

Laura Hirshbein (M.D. 1997, Residency 2001), Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry, wrote Smoking Privileges: Psychiatry, the Mentally Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America, Rutgers University Press, 2015.

Lori L. Isom, Ph.D., chair and professor of pharmacology, professor of molecular and integrative physiology and of neurology, coauthored a chapter in Success Strategies from Women in STEM, second edition, Elsevier, 2015.

Timothy R. B. Johnson, M.D. (Residency 1979), the Bates Professor of the Diseases of Women and Children, chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and professor of obstetrics and gynecology, authored a chapter in Disease Control Priorities: Essential Surgery, third edition, World Bank, 2015.

Mack T. Ruffin, M.D., the Dr. Max and Buena Lichter Research Professor of Family Medicine and assistant chair of the Department of Family Medicine, co-wrote a chapter of Clinical Gynecology, second edition, Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Sanjay Saint, M.D., the George Dock Collegiate Professor of Internal Medicine, chief of medicine at the Veteran's Administration Ann Arbor Healthcare System and director of the VA /U-M Patient Safety Enhancement Program, coauthored Preventing Hospital Infections: Real-World Problems, Realistic Solutions, Oxford University Press, 2014.

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