Clinical Associate Professor
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Seth A Waits
Clinical Associate Professor
Seth A. Waits, MD is a faculty member in the Section of Transplant Surgery. Dr. Waits received his medical degree from the University of Toledo in 2009. He completed his general surgery residency and abdominal transplant fellowship at the University of Michigan in 2018. While a research fellow in transplantation and general surgery from 2013-2015, he investigated quality improvement efforts across hospital collaboratives and looked for novel methods of surgical education. He is board certified by the American College of Surgeons and holds a certificate of completion of fellowship from the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
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Center MemberInstitute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation
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Pourak K, Zugris N, Palmon I, Monovoukas D, Waits S. Clin Teach, 2024 Oct; 21 (5): e13770Journal ArticleInnovating medical education: Development of an affordable, 3-D printed knot-tying simulator.
DOI:10.1111/tct.13770 PMID: 38686890 -
Diaz S, VanWinkle C, Roney E, Kumar SS, Douville NJ, Englesbe M, Sonnenday CJ, Waits S, Schaefer SL. Liver Transpl, 2024 Jun 1; 30 (6): 661 - 667.Journal ArticleUniversal intraoperative systemic heparin administration during liver transplantation: A case series.
DOI:10.1097/LVT.0000000000000329 PMID: 38190234 -
Pourak K, Zugris N, Palmon I, Monovoukas D, Waits S. Surg Open Sci, 2023 Dec; 16: 221 - 225.Journal ArticleNodo-Tie: an innovative, 3-D printed simulator for surgical knot-tying skills development.
DOI:10.1016/j.sopen.2023.11.007 PMID: 38035223 -
Hughes DL, Pan J, Answine AR, Sonnenday CJ, Waits SA, Kumar SS, Menees DS, Wanamaker B, Bhave NM, Tincopa MA, Fontana RJ, Sharma P. Liver Transpl, 2023 Sep 1; 29 (9): 970 - 978.Journal ArticlePositron emission tomography myocardial perfusion imaging (PET MPI) findings predictive of post-liver transplant major adverse cardiac events.
DOI:10.1097/LVT.0000000000000118 PMID: 36879556 -
Bloom PP, Gilbert T, Santos-Parker K, Memel Z, Przybyszewski E, Bethea E, Sonnenday CJ, Tapper EB, Waits S. Hepatol Commun, 2023 Jun 1; 7 (6):Journal ArticleThe incidence and natural history of ascites after liver transplantation.
DOI:10.1097/HC9.0000000000000158 PMID: 37219847 -
Kamyszek RW, Sood SL, Sonnenday CJ, Parikh ND, Westman A, Englesbe MJ, Waits SA, Barrett M, Fontana RJ, Kumar SS. Am J Transplant, 2023 Jun; 23 (6): 839 - 843.Journal ArticleSuccessful living donor liver transplantation in a patient with hemophilia A and factor VIII inhibitor: A case report with perioperative recommendations.
DOI:10.1016/j.ajt.2023.02.026 PMID: 36898636 -
Palmon I, Michaels R, Claflin J, Behrend M, Zopf DA, Waits S. Journal of 3D Printing in Medicine, 2022 Dec; 6 (4): 187 - 193.Journal ArticleDesign, development and multi-institutional validation of a low-cost 3D-printed liver transplant simulator
DOI:10.2217/3dp-2022-0011 -
Greenberg AL, Karimzada MM, Brian R, Yap A, Luu HY, Ahmed S, Huang C-Y, Waits SA, Hirose R, Alseidi A, Rapp JH, O'Sullivan PS, Chern H, Syed SM. JAMA Netw Open, 2022 Sep 1; 5 (9): e2229787Journal ArticleAssessment of Surgeon Performance of Advanced Open Surgical Skills Using a Microskills-Based Novel Curriculum.
DOI:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.29787 PMID: 36053533
Health Lab
When Scott Bryers needed a liver transplant, he joined the waiting list for three years before finding his partial liver donor match. When that fell through, he quickly found a complete liver donor match. Today, the three families stay in touch.
Department News
Surgeons often gravitate toward a particular pillar of the academic surgical mission. Some shine in research, others are at home in the operating room, and some thrive as teachers. That third pillar, education, is as critical as the others to prepare surgical trainees for future independent practice.
