Michael Mulholland

Michael W. Mulholland is an American surgeon who is Professor of Surgery and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan, where he holds the Frederick A. Coller Distinguished Professorship. He studied at Northwestern University, took his medical degree at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, and trained in general surgery at the University of Minnesota, where he also earned a doctorate. After serving as an assistant professor at the University of Washington from 1985 to 1988 he joined the Michigan faculty in 1988. His clinical focus is laparoscopic surgery and surgical endoscopy, including pancreatic and biliary cancer, and his research concerns the nervous control of pancreatic secretion. He has co-authored or edited several surgical textbooks and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2004.