Peter A. Ward, M.D.
Professor and Chairman
Campus Address:
M5240 MSI 0602
1301 Catherine Road
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0602
Phone: 734/763-6384
pward@umich.edu
Annual Report | Brief Biography | Clinical Interests | Research Interests | Selected Publications
ANN ARBOR NEWS Article, March 11,
2002 - "Reputation is Golden for U-M Pathology Chairman" 
Dr. Ward was the recipient of the Gold Headed Cane Award presented
by the American Society of Investigative Pathology (ASIP) in Orlando (FL)
in April, 2001 at its annual meeting.
Departmental Annual Report
Brief Biography
Dr. Ward received his B.S. and M.D. from the University of Michigan (1958 and 1960). He pursued a year of Straight Medical Internship at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and returned to Ann Arbor to undertake two years of training in Anatomic Pathology. In 1963 he pursued a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation (La Jolla, California) following which he entered active military duty as Captain, Medical Corps., in the U.S. Army, being assigned to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology as Chief of the Immunobiology Branch. In 1971 he moved to the University of Connecticut Health Center (Farmington, Connecticut) and in 1973 became Head of the Department of Pathology in Farmington.
In 1980 he returned to the University of Michigan as Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology. He is the Godfrey D. Stobbe Professor of Pathology, has served on numerous national review boards, has been President of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, the American Board of Pathology, the American Society for Experimental Pathology, and Universities Associated for Education and Research in Pathology and served as Interim Dean of the University of Michigan Medical School from 1982-1985. His research activities relate to mediators and regulators of the inflammatory response, with a particular emphasis on cytokines, complement and protease inhibitors. He has more than 400 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Clinical Interests
Pathology, Anatomic pathology, and immunopathology
Research Interests
Immunology, inflammation, oxygen radicals, leukocytes, cytokines, chemokines,
complement activation products, and regulatory interleukins.
Selected Publications
Guo, R.F., Lentsch, A.B., Warner, R.L., Huber-Lang, M., Sarma, J.V., Hlaing, T., Shi, M.M., Lukacs, N.W., and Ward, P.A.: Regulatory effects of eotaxin on acute lung inflammatory injury. J Immunol. 2001 166(8):5208-5218.
Huber-Lang, M.S., Sarma, J.V., McGuire, S.R., Lu, K.T., Guo, R.F., Padgaonkar, V.A., Younkin, E.M., Laudes, I.J., Riedemann, N.C., Younger, J.G., and Ward, P.A.: Protective effects of anti-C5a peptide antibodies in experimental sepsis. FASEB J. 2001 15(3):568-570.
Hlaing, T., Guo, R.F., Dilley, K.A., Loussia, J.M., Morrish, T.A., Shi, M.M., Vincenz, C., and Ward, P.A.: Molecular cloning and characterization of DEFCAP-L and -S, two isoforms of a novel member of the mammalian Ced-4 family of apoptosis proteins. 2001. J Bio Chem. 276(12):9230-9238.
Younger, J.G., Sasaki, N., Waite, M.D., Murray, H.N., Saleh, E.F., Ravage, Z.A., Hirschl, R.B., Ward, P.A., and Till, G.O.: Detrimental effects of complement activation in hemorrhagic shock. J Appl Physiol. 2001 90(2):441-446.
Younger, J.G., Sasaki, N., Delgado, J., Ko, A.C., Nghiem, T.X., Waite, M.D., Till, G.O., and Ward, P.A.: Systemic and lung physiological changes in rats after intravascular activation of complement. J Appl Physiol. 2001 90:2289-2295.