The General Surgery Section was formed under Dr. Charles Child, III, and Chairman of the Department of Surgery, in April 1967. Dr. William Fry was selected to be its chief.
The General Surgical Services include two wards at the University of Michigan Hospital, two at the Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Hospital, and two at Wayne County General Hospital. In the affiliated hospitals both undergraduate and postgraduate students receive general surgical training.
The Section of General Surgery has an active research program. Clinical and laboratory investigations of tissue transplantation, vascular physiology, biochemistry of nutrition, endocrine abnormalities, and liver disease are subjects of particular interest.
Fred J. Hodges
The University of Michigan, an Encyclopedic Survey Supplement, Page 207
