Robert G Sawyer, MD

Robert G Sawyer, MD
Robert G Sawyer, MD

The Hal B. Jenson MD Dean

Senior Associate Dean for Research

Professor, Department of Surgery

Professor, Program in Medical Engineering


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Robert Sawyer graduated from the University of Michigan with a BS in Biomedical Sciences in 1984 and an MD in 1986. He finished a general surgery residency at the University of Virginia in 1994 and a transplant surgery fellowship at the University of Michigan in 1996. He finished a surgical critical care fellowship at the University of Virginia in 2003. He became professor of Surgery at the University of Virginia in 2008. He became Professor and Chair of Surgery at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker School of Medicine in 2017. After years of research dedicated to infectious diseases, surgery, critical care and nutrition he was named Senior Associate Dean for Research in 2023.  In 2024 he was named the Hal B. Jenson MD Dean at Western Michigan University School of Medicine.