Michael Mulholland

Michael W. Mulholland, MD, Ph.D. is a Professor of Surgery and the Chairman of the Department of Surgery. Dr. Mulholland received his Bachelors degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and a medical degree from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. Postgraduate training in General Surgery was received at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Dr. Mulholland also received a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He was an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington in Seattle from 1985 through 1988. Dr. Mulholland joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1988. Dr. Mulholland’s clinical interests are expressed in the area of gastrointestinal surgery. He has special expertise in laparoscopic surgery and surgical endoscopy. Special interests include the treatment of pancreatic and biliary cancer, neoplastic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, biliary reconstruction, inflammatory bowel disease, and advanced laparoscopic surgery.

Dr. Mulholland is the principal director of a research laboratory that has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1988. Research interests include neurocrine control of pancreatic exocrine secretion and enteric neurobiology. Dr. Mulholland also participates as a member in the Michigan GI Peptide Center Grant. He is a member of numerous editorial boards and has been a member of the Surgery and Bioengineering Study Section at the National Institutes of Health. He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2004.

Dr. Mulholland co-authored or edited several books now in print including the following:  Essentials of Surgery: Scientific Principles and Practice,  Surgery: Scientific Principles & Practice + Review for Surgery,  Digestive Tract Surgery: A Text and Atlas,  Greenfield's Surgery: Scientific Principles And Practice, and Complications in Surgery.