Michael C. Dalsing, MD
#29: 2005-2006
Dr. Dalsing is Director of Vascular Surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine and Program Director of the Vascular Surgery Residency Program, which he initiated in 2000. He is Medical Director of the Indiana University/Clarian Non-invasive Vascular Laboratory, which has been accredited since 1993 under his direction.
Dr. Dalsing grew up with six brothers and sisters in Kieler, Wisconsin; a small community composed mostly of relatives engaged in farming or working at the local factory. He received a B.A. in Biology from St. Mary’s College, Winona, Minnesota (1974), M.D. degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (1978) and surgical residency from the Indiana University School of Medicine (1983). Vascular Surgical training was completed at Northwestern University in 1984. He is board certified in Vascular Surgery, General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care.
Dr. Dalsing joined the Indiana University faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1984 and became Director of Vascular Surgery in 1987. He is very active in the Clarian Health Care Systems medical staff, flagship of the school’s clinical effort, and will assume leadership as president in 2005.
Dr. Dalsing is a past president of the Indiana Chapter of the ACS and is currently one of its two Governors with election to the Committee on Socioeconomic Issues. He is member of the ACS Fellows Leadership Society. He has been a Director of the American Board of Vascular Surgery since its inception in 2002. He will be president of the American Venous Forum in 2005. He helped found and is the first president of the Indiana Society of Vascular and Endovascular Surgeons, a state society dedicated to vascular surgery. He is a member of numerous prestigious societies including but not limited to the APDVS, AMA, CS, SCVS, SVS, SUS and the Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society.
Designation as the Conrad Jobst Vascular Fellow (1983), obtaining AOA recognition (1988), and being named the E. Dale and Susan E. Habegger Professor (2004) are some of his bestowed honors. He has been privileged to have trained our next generation of surgeons for more than 20 years and specifically vascular surgeons for the last 5 years.
His research and scholarly efforts have included study of end-stage chronic venous disease, collateral blood vessel development, and many areas of clinical vascular surgery. He has contributed 102 peer-reviewed articles, 25 book chapters and numerous abstracts and reviews to the surgical literature. He is on the editorial boards of the JVS, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, and Vascular. He has presented at numerous regional, national and international conferences on various topics pertinent to vascular surgery.
Dr. Dalsing enjoys the camaraderie of his partners and long time friends. He greatly enjoys time spent with family; his wife, Rosa, and their daughters, Jessica, Rachael and Heather. Rosa is skilled at making each family vacation an adventure, to the delight of all, with events such as a strenuous climb to the top of Yellowstone’s Mount Washburn or a helicopter flight to an Alaskan Glacier for an experience in dog sledding. He enjoys watching professional football, being bested by his daughters while cross country running, traveling and playing most sports for which one can score points.
