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The Plastic Surgery Section with support from colleagues from across the University of Michigan has been awarded a second 5year funding period. The NIH Training grant in Burn, Trauma and Wound Healing Research has as PI and Program Director Cynthia L. Marcelo, PhD and William M.Kuzon, Jr, MD, Ph.D. as co-PI and co-Director. This grant supports the training of potential academic medical surgeon/scientist in basic research related to trauma in muscle and bone, burn injuries, and wound healing and tissue engineering. Residents can train in health related areas of investigation and can chose more fundamental research fields (biophysics, tissue engineering, lipid biochemistry and molecular and cell biology). The Grant supports two postdoctoral fellows per year, plus supplies, course work and travel allowances. The current trainees are Deborah Yu, MD and Ian Lytle, MD. Deborah Yu, MD, from Bethesda, MD (Georgetown University School of Medicine) is studying the muscle differences between cleft palate and normal palate muscle in a goat model. She is also studying the origin of Schwann cells in a peripheral nerve allograft. Dr Yu is mentored by Paul Cederna, MD. Ian Lytle, MD has just arrived from the University of Cincinnati, and is beginning his studies with Dr. David Brown in the area of muscle regeneration. Applications for the July 1, 2006 positions are being accepted. The Plastic Surgery Research laboratories’ research faculty, composed of Cynthia Marcelo, PhD, Melanie Urbanchek, PhD, and Dennis Claflin, PhD, continue their studies in the areas of keratinocyte biology, facial muscle reinnervation, muscle pathology N EWS FROM THE LABORATORIES: accompanying ventral hernia, contractile properties of human single muscle fibers, and effects of the absence of the protein dystrophin on skeletal muscle contractile properties. Several fellows made significant contributions to the Plastic Surgery field through their research efforts. They include: Yasushi Fujimori, MD is an instructor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of Osaka Medical College and he is currently a visiting fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Marcelo. He is investigating the role of fatty acids in epidermal stem cell culture development as part of an ongoing project in the keratinocyte biology laboratories. Vikas Dhawan, MD, PhD from Chandigarh, India (Moscow State University of Medical and Stomatological Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation) is studying skeletal, cardiac, renal and tendon tissue engineering. Dr Dhawan is mentored by David Brown, MD. Erika Henkelman, MD, is from Toronto (University of Toronto). She is studying the biomechanical pathogenesis of chronic incisional hernia with special focus on single muscle fiber function in the presence of surgically induced ventral hernia; and the role of mechanical strain during laparotomy wound healing and incisional hernia repair with focus on fibroblast culture response to mechanical stretch. Dr. Henkelman is mentored by Drs Kuzon, Urbanchek, Franz and Marcelo. Daniel Schwarz, MD (University of Illinois in Chicago) is studying metrics of bone healing in Mandibular distraction ostegenesis undergoing irradiation with the help of Ayman Elmeligy, MD (University of Cairo). They are mentored by Steven R Buchman, MD. Three current U of M medical 14 R E E D O . D I N G M A N S O C I E T Y students have found time to complete research investigations in the laboratories. Winston Choi from Denver, CO. (Stanford University, Biomechanical Engineering) completed a project studying the abdominal oblique muscular atrophy, fibrosis and decreased compliance associated with ventral incisional herniation. Daniel Krochmal who is from Farmington Hills, Michigan (Washington University in St. Louis, Biology, PNP (Philosophy, Neuroscience, Psychology) is beginning an outcomes study of recurrent ventral hernia repair techniques after completing a study on muscle force and power output following tendon repair with altered tension. Daemeon Nicolaou, from Los Angeles, CA (UCLA Neuroscience Major) is continuing a study on immunomodulation with Anti-CD40L monoclonal Antibody (MR1) and neuroregeneration in the nerve allografts. Four undergraduates are contributing to our research goals through coursework, independent studies, and summer fellowships. Daniel Calderon, from Ann Arbor, MI, Shaun Patel, from Woodhaven, MI, and Thane Wolcott from Dexter MI are LSA students majoring in Biology at the U of M. Daniel studies Collagen types I and III concentrations in rectus abdominus and external oblique muscles of a hernia model. Shaun studies the effects of hernias upon abdominal muscle properties, while Thane studies. abdominal muscle contractile and material properties following prostheses onlay. Richard Cheng, another Ann Arbor native who attends Northwestern University studied the nerve morphology related to an improved muscle recovery using FK506 in a nerve repair model. -Drs. Urbanchek and Marcelo
G RATEFUL PATIENT, PIONEERING D OCTOR: HARVEY L EMMEN AND R EED D INGMAN Modest about his own accomplishments, Harvey Lemmen (BBA ‘44, MBA ‘49) of Grand Rapids grows positively effusive when he speaks of Dr. Reed O. Dingman (AB ‘28, DDS ‘32, MS ‘32, MD ‘36, MDRES ‘45). “He was a dynamic personality,” recalls Lemmen. “He was very impressive, very down-to-earth. I had a lot of respect for him.” Dingman was a pioneer in oral and maxillofacial surgery, a plastic surgeon when the specialty was in its infancy and the founder, in 1964, of the plastic surgery section in U-M’s Department of Surgery. A role model for three generations of plastic surgeons until his death in 1985, Dingman was equally well known for his gentleness and compassion for patients. Lemmen can attest to that extraordinary bedside manner. Born and raised in Ionia, Mich., Lemmen became Dingman’s patient in his freshman year at Michigan. As an undergraduate, he underwent more than a dozen reconstructive operations for a cleft palate—”some of them minor, some of them not so minor,” Lemmen says wryly—all with Dingman as chief surgeon. He also recalls Dingman’s largerthan-life confidence. “I remember one extensive operation, when the head of the dental school asked Dr. Dingman if he had ever done it before, and Dr. Dingman said, ‘No, but I know I can’,” Lemmen says. When Lemmen learned of the Medical School’s initiative to establish a professorship in Dingman’s name, he leaped at the chance to give to the cause. The reason was simple: “He accomplished miracles,” says Lemmen. “He ought to be recognized for what he was.” Harvey Lemmen Lemmen’s generosity to the Reed O. Dingman Professorship in Plastic Surgery includes a cash gift of $30,000, a bequest in his will and the establishment of a $150,000 charitable gift annuity (CGA). He chose to give through the CGA because, he says, “I might as well give it now, and I thought they’d probably welcome that. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. And on top of that, I get a return.” It’s a sound answer from a man who knows something about managing money. After receiving his MBA from the U-M in 1949, Lemmen went to work for Meijer Inc. as an office manager when the company had but four stores, all small supermarkets. He rose within the Meijer organization to become president in 1975 and retired in 1986 as company deputy chairman. In appreciation of Lemmen’s service and that of his colleague, Earl D. Holton, Fred Meijer, chairman of the executive committee of Meijer, Inc. and his wife, Lena, named the Lemmen-Holton Cancer Pavilion, part of the Spectrum Health System, in Grand Rapids. Immediately upon retirement Lemmen became an American Red Cross volunteer, driving disabled and senior patients to hospitals within Kent County, where he lives. Since the program expanded its boundaries in 1992, Lemmen has driven hundreds of patients to hospitals throughout Michigan, often volunteering seven days a week, and occasionally making twice-daily round trips from Grand Rapids to Ann Arbor. He also schedules other volunteer drivers. “This is something I can do that seems worthwhile,” says Lemmen. “It’s beneficial to me. I see people who are a whole lot worse off than I am.” Spoken in the generous spirit of Dr. Dingman himself. 7 R E E D O . D I N G M A N S O C I E T Y Reed Dingman led Plastic Surgery at Michigan as an extraordinary surgeon and a teacher without peer. His contributions to maxillofacial surgery, facial trauma, and pediatric cleft lip and palate repair are important to the present day. He trained a generation of leaders for Plastic Surgery. For his patients, he performed miracles by forming smiles. His legacy is the excellence in clinical care, the dedication to teaching, and the world class research that defines Plastic Surgery at the University of Michigan. Please join the effort to immortalize this great man with the Reed O. Dingman Professorship. WWW.UMSURGERY.ORG
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