Department Chair

On behalf of the Department of Surgery, I extend my thanks to you for your interest in the General Surgery Training Program at Trinity Health Hospital. Trinity Health’s offers its General Surgery trainees a unique mix of broad based clinical general surgery and exposure to a richly supported clinical research environment. From humble beginnings, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital has grown to become a 548-bed community teaching hospital, a leader among Trinity Health’s 93 hospital national Catholic health system, providing the highest quality medical and surgical care to the citizens of the greater Ann Arbor area since 1911. Clinical excellence and patient safety remain at the forefront of our mission. We are a Top 100 Hospital (Truven Health Analytics), one of only fifty NCI Community Cancer Centers and recently were accredited as a Level I Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons.

The General Surgery Residency is the second oldest training program at Trinity Health's and was founded in 1948 by Dr. E. Thurston Thieme, growing from two categorical positions to its current five. The teaching faculty are from diverse training backgrounds and have been specifically chosen because of their demonstrated passion, ability and desire for working with surgical trainees. Our finishing graduates have continued on to enter a variety of fellowships (MIS, Colon and Rectal Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Cardiothoracic, Trauma/Surgical Critical Care, Pediatric Surgery), as well as private practice general surgery and full time missionary surgery.

Thank you for your interest in our General Surgery Training Program. I wish you all the best as you enter this most exciting next phase of your chosen career in Surgery.

John C. Eggenberger M.D. 
Walter M. Whitehouse Endowed Chair of Surgery 
Medical Director of Surgical Services 
Trinity Health Hospital 
Ann Arbor and Livingston