James C. Stanley, MD
#3: 1979-1980
Dr. Stanley is the Handleman Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School, where he was the Head of the Vascular Surgery Service from 1976 to 2004. In the past, he has served as both the Director of Medical Student Education and Director of Resident Education in General Surgery. He was the Vascular Fellowship Director from 1982 to 2006. In 2003 he was appointed one of the Directors of the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center.
Dr. Stanley was an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, and received his Medical Degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1964. After an internship at Philadelphia General Hospital, he served as a medical officer at Brooke Army Medical Center. Subsequently, he completed his surgical residency at the University of Michigan Medical Center, under the mentorship of C. Gardner Child, Calvin B. Ernst, and William J. Fry. He was an NIH trainee in Academic Surgery in 1969 and 1970. After completing his Chief Residency in 1972, he joined the University of Michigan faculty as an Instructor in Surgery, rising to the rank of Professor in 1980.
Dr. Stanley has an extensive clinical practice in vascular surgery with a major focus on complex aortic disease, renovascular hypertension, splanchnic aneurysms, and pediatric arterial diseases. He maintains an ongoing interest in biomedical research. He was the Director of the Jobst Vascular Research Laboratories at the University of Michigan from 1989 to 2004. His principal interests are arterial wall biology, genetic modifications of the vessel wall, mesenteric vascular disease, and renovascular hypertension. He received $3,186,000 from NIH as an investigator or co-investigator for laboratory investigations conducted at the University of Michigan from 1974 to 1998. In 1993 he received an NIH Vascular Disease Academic Award, which provided the impetus for a multi-disciplinary vascular medicine program and the establishment of a Cardiovascular Center at his University.
Dr. Stanley was the recipient of the first Conrad Jobst Award for Research in Vascular Surgery in 1972, the University of Michigan Distinguished Service Award in 1976, and the Michigan Medical Center Alumni Society Distinguished Achievement Award in 2000. He became an Honorary Fellow in the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, in 1992, an Honorary Member of the National Academy of Medicine of Columbia in 1994, and an Honorary Member of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Section of Vascular Surgery, in 1995. He is a member of 30 scientific societies. He served as President of the Society for Vascular Surgery in 1996 to 1997.
He is the author of more than 300 scientific articles and 175 chapters in surgical textbooks. He served as Editor of the Journal of Vascular Surgery from 1991 to 1996. Dr. Stanley has edited ten books, including two on renovascular hypertension, one on biologic and synthetic vascular prostheses, one on clinical ischemic syndromes, one on aortic surgery, one on practice cardiology, and four editions of Current Therapy in Vascular Surgery. He has contributed to numerous medical conferences, both in the United States and abroad.
Dr. Stanley is a world traveler, enjoys classical music, and has enjoyed the life of being an avid lepidopterist, enthusiastic Snipe sailor, novice marathon runner, and a classic music aficionado.
