Clinical Interests
Renal and necropsy pathology
Brief Biography
Dr.
Gikas received his baccalaureate degree in 1950 and his M.D. degree
in 1954 from the University of Michigan. He completed a rotating internship
at Philadelphia General Hospital. He began residency training in Pathology at the University of
Michigan Hospital in 1955 and then served as a medical officer in the
United States Army for two years from 1956-1958. Upon discharge from
the service, he returned to complete his residency in 1960. He was promoted
to the rank of Assistant Professor in 1963, Associate Professor in 1966
and Professor of Pathology in 1969.
After
an initial assignment as Chief of the Laboratory Service at the Ann
Arbor Veterans Administration Hospital, he served as an attending pathologist
on the Surgical and Autopsy Pathology Services at the University Hospital
with special interest in nephropathology, genito-urinary pathology and
the pathology of trauma. He served as director of the Clinical
Electron Microscopy Unit and Director of the Autopsy Service in the
Department of Pathology. His research activities included investigation
of the pathogenesis of injuries in fatal automobile crashes. Results from these studies were
used in testimony before Congressional committees in support of federal
legislation which mandated safety standards for automobiles. He was
also involved in research involving the preservation of blood for transfusion
by freezing.
Dr.
Gikas served as Faculty Representative for Intercollegiate Athletics
to the Big Ten Conference and the National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA). He was a member of the Board in
Control of Intercollegiate Athletics at the University for nine years,
and he was a member of the committee, which developed the NCAA Athletic
Drug Testing Program and served on the NCAA committee on Competitive
Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports for six years. Dr. Gikas also
chaired the Drug Testing Program Appeals Committee.
Dr.
Gikas retired from the Department of Pathology in 1995, and continues
to provide service on a part time basis in nephropathology, the autopsy
service and teaching as an Active Professor Emeritus. In 1990 he was appointed Assistant
Dean for Medical School Admissions and retired from this position in
1997. Dr. Gikas is a recipient of the Resident Teaching Award in the
Department of Pathology and the University of Michigan Distinguished
Service Award. He was chairperson
of the Board of Directors of Public Citizen, Inc., a citizen activist
group, founded by Ralph Nader and based in Washington D.C., retiring
in 2002. In honor of his contributions to medical student education,
the first Pathology Education Scholarship, awarded in 2001, was named
the Paul W. Gikas Education Scholarship.
Dr.
Gikas and his wife, Suzanne, have three daughters and nine grandchildren. Special interests include bicycling and fishing. |
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