Jeremiah and Claire Turcotte Professorship in Transplantation Surgery
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| Margaret and Jeffrey Punch with Claire and Jeremiah Turcotte Photo: Martin Vloet |
Associate Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Division of Transplantation Jeffrey D. Punch, M.D., became the first Jeremiah and Claire Turcotte Professor of Transplantation Surgery October 18, 2006, at a ceremony in the Ford Amphitheatre in University Hospital.
A pioneer in liver transplantation, Punch performed the first living donor liver transplant in the state of Michigan in 1996. He serves as director of the U-M Liver Transplant Program and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In addition to his clinical practice, he also runs numerous clinical research studies involving transplant recipients.
Jeremiah G. Turcotte (M.D. 1957, Residency 1963) and Claire Lenz Turcotte (Ph.D. 1987) established the Turcotte Professorship to support the research and clinical efforts of the director of the Organ Transplantation Center.
Jeremiah Turcotte founded the U-M kidney transplant program in 1964, and served as chair of the Department of Surgery, head of the Section of General Surgery, and director of the Organ Transplant Center and Liver Transplant Program. From 1978-89, he held the Frederick A. Coller Professorship in Surgery.
After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Claire Turcotte returned to the University to earn a master’s degree in urban planning and a doctorate in urban, technology and environmental planning.
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