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Three MSMS Physician Leaders Receive Awards from ACP Michigan Chapter
Earlier this month, the American College of Physicians (ACP) Michigan Chapter awarded three distinctive members of the Michigan State Medical Society (MSMS): Vernon Wendt, MD, John (Jack) Billi, MD, and Jack Sobel, MD.
Laureate Award: Vernon Wendt, MD
The Laureat Award honors those Fellows and Masters of the College who have demonstrated by their example and conduct an abiding commitment to excellence in medical care, education or research and in service to their community.
Doctor Wendt received his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1956. He then completed a residency in internal medicine and cardiology fellowship at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He served as assistant professor of medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Director of the Cardiac Cath Laboratory at the Detroit Receiving Hospital. He is currently Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He has been an active staff member at Blodgett Memorial, Hutzel Hospital, Spectrum Health, Pine Rest Christian Hospital, Ferguson Hospital, Forest View Hospital, and St. Mary’s Medical Center. He has contributed to the care of patients in the state of Michigan for over 50 years.
Great Internist of Michigan: John (Jack) Billi, MD
The Michigan Chapter of the American College of Physicians recognizes internists whose contributions to health care and internal medicine in Michigan have been noteworthy. Criteria for the award are outstanding clinical abilities and performance, along with service to the discipline, research and/or education.
Doctor Billi serves as Professor in Internal Medicine and Learning Health Sciences, Health Management and Policy, and Integrated Systems and Design at the University of Michigan. Doctor Billi's interests are in health services delivery, especially the use of lean thinking to
improve quality and efficiency, the use of community collaboratives to improve quality and population health, clinical practice transformation tied to value-based reimbursement, the creation and use of evidence-based guidelines, and conflict of interest management.
Lifetime Achievement Award: Jack Sobel, MD
Doctor Sobel is Dean of the School of Medicine at Wayne State University, previously Chair of Internal Medicine and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine. A graduate of the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Doctor Sobel did his fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Health and the Medical College of Pennsylvania. He is a board certified internal medicine specialist in the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel and South Africa and became a Master in the American College of Physicians in 2013.
More information on the ACP Michigan Chapter Awards is available here>>