Daniel J. Reddy, MD
#34: 2010-2011
Daniel Joseph Reddy is a Professor of Surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. He was born in Jackson, Michigan but has lived in and around Detroit for most of his life having graduated from Detroit Jesuit High School before graduating from Georgetown University as an Ignatian Scholar. In DC, his area of interest in the Georgetown College of Arts shifted from Philosophy to Biology following laboratory experiments in the LDH isoenzyme responses to sepsis. After undergraduate studies he returned home and matriculated at The University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At Michigan he was inspired to pursue a career in Surgery while rotating as a third year medical student with Drs. Richard Dow, Carl Benner and G. Patrick Clagett at the Wayne County Hospital. It was there and then that he developed a lifelong interest in operative surgery and the surgical care of the injured patient. Before graduating from the University of Michigan, Dr. Reddy completed a American Association of Medical Colleges travelling fellowship at the University of Belgrade in Yugoslavia and co-authored a paper on Health Care Utilization as it is influenced by benefit coverage.
Surgery residency training followed at Wayne under the influences of Drs. Walt, Lucas and Ledgerwood. It was, however, experiences as a research resident, including study of the development of experimental intimal hyperplasia followed by fellowship training in the emerging field of Vascular Surgery under Dr. Ramon Bergeur that set his professional course for the next 35 years. Dr. Reddy joined the renowned Vascular Surgery senior staff at The Henry Ford Hospital and continued there in the three-fold mission of patient care, education and research for thirty years. He roses to the position of Division Head in Vascular Surgery, served many years as Program Director in the ACGME Fellowship in Vascular Surgery, was elected and reelected to the Board of Governors of the Henry Ford Medical Group and was awarded the Inaugural D. Emerick and Eve Szilagyi Chair in Vascular Surgery. Dr. Reddy has served as President of the Michigan Chapter of the American College of Surgeons and the Michigan Vascular Society and was a study surgeon for the NIH ACAS and CREST trials. Dr. Reddy has authored or co-authored numerous papers pertaining to the full range of topics in Vascular Surgery with particular emphasis on complex aortic and carotid operations. His 2011 MVSS Presidential Address entitled “Experiments in Unreality” traced false passages and their consequences in human endeavors from antiquity to the present time and illustrated some contemporary errors linking then to past errors. Highlighted were the negative aspects of the electronic medical record and the threats inherent in the heavy hand of centralized government control of Medicine. In recent years he returned to Wayne State University and serves as Vascular Surgeon for the Detroit Veterans Affairs Hospital and enjoys the daily direct clinical contact with residents, medical students and patients. Dr. Reddy’s wife, Diane Marie, is a gastroenterologist and both of their children are US Army Officers. Caitlin Marie is in the Dental Corps and Daniel Martin, a 2011 West Point Graduate, is in the Infantry.
