Medical School:

• University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Internship:

• University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Residency:

• University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Fellowship:

• Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Certification:

• American Board of Surgery, Diplomat

Societies, Organizations, and Honors:

• Phi Beta Kappa
• Alpha Omega Alpha
• American College of Surgeons Faculty Research Fellowship (2000-2002)
• Outstanding Teacher Award, Depart. of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin (2002)
• American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists 
• American Association of Endocrine Surgeons 
• American College of Surgeons Fellow
• American College of Surgeons Oncology Group 
• Association of Academic Surgeons
• Central Surgical Association
• International Association of Endocrine Surgeons
• Milwaukee Academy of Surgery
• Society of Surgical Oncology
• Society of University Surgeons
• The Coller Society
• The Endocrine Society Wisconsin
• Surgical Society

Selected Recent Publications:

• Lenny JF, Liao JR, Sugg SL, Gopalakrishnan V, Wong HC, Ouye KH, Chan PW. Low molecular weight inhibitors of cathespsins B, H and T in human serum, synovial fluid and CSF. Biochemical & Biophysical Research Communications (1982 Oct 29) 108(4):1581-7.
• Sugg SL, Fraker DL, Alexander R, Doppman JL, Miller DL, Chang R, Skarulis MC, Marx SJ, Spiegel AM, Norton JA. Prospective evaluation of selective venous sampling for parathyroid hormone concentration in patients undergoing reoperations for primary hyperthyroidism. Surgery (1993 Dec) 114(6):1004-9.
• Sugg SL, Norton JA, Fraker DL, Metz DC, Pisegna JR, Fishbeyn V, Benya RV, Shawker TH, Doppm,an JL, Jensen RT. Annals of Surgery (1993 Aug) 21) 218(2):138-44.
• Sugg SL, Gerndt SR, Hamilton BJ, Francis IR, Taheri PA, Rodriguez JL. Pseudoaneurysms of the intraparenchymal splenic artery following bunt abdominal trauma: A complication of nonoperative therapy and its management. Journal of Trauma (1995 Sep) 39(3):593-5.
• Sugg SL, Zheng L, Ezzat S, Rosen IB, Freeman JL, Asa SL. Ret/PTC-1,-2,-3 oncogene rearrangements in human thyroid carcinoma: implications for metastatic potential? Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (1996 Sep) 81:3360-5.
• Sugg SL. Zheng L. Ezzat S, Rosen IB, Freeman JL, Asa SL. Distinct multiple ret/PTC gene rearrangements in multifocal papillary thyroid neoplasia. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, (1998 Nov) 83(11):4116-22.
• Sugg SL, Zheng L, Rosen IB, Freeman JL, Ezzat S. Asa SL. ErbB-2 Cytoplasmic staining but not mRNA levels correlate with differentiation in human thyroid neoplasm. Clinical Endocrinology, 1998;49:629-637.
• Sugg SL, Zheng, Freeman JL, Rosen IB, Ezzat S, Asa SL. Oncogene profile of papillary thyroid carcinoma. Surgery, 1999;125:46-52.
• Soravia C, Sugg SL, Berk T, Mitri A, Cheng H, Gallinger S, Cohen Z, Asa SL, Bapat BV. Familial adenomatous polyposis coli associated thyroid cancer: a clinical, pathological, and molecular genetic study. American Journal of Pathology, 1999;54:127-135.
• Sugg SL, Ferguson DJ, Posner MC, Heimann R. Should internal mammary nodes be sampled in the sentinel lymph node era? Annals of Surgical Oncology, 2000;7:188-192. Abstracted in Breast Diseases: A Year Book Quarterly, 2000.
• Witteles RM, Straus FH, Sugg SL, Koka MR, Costa EA, Kaplan EL. Adult nesidioblastosis causing hypoglycemia.  An uncommon but important clinical entity. Arch Surg. 2001 Jun;136(6):656-63. Review.
• Jaskowiak NT, Sugg SL, Helke J, Koka MR, Kaplan EL. Pitfalls of intraoperative quick parathyroid hormone monitoring and gamma probe localization in surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism. Arch Surg 2002 Jun;137(6):659-68
• Chen X, Doffek K, Sugg SL, Shilyansky J. Neuroblastoma cells inhibit the  immunostimulatory function of dendritic cells.  J Pediatr Surg 2003 Jun;38(6):901-5.
• Gillanders WE, Mikhitarian K, Hebert R, Mauldin PD, Palesch Y, Walters C, Urist MM, Mann GB, Doherty G, Herrmann VM, Hill AD, Eremin O, El-Sheemy M, Orr RK, Valle AA, Henderson MA, Dewitty RL, Sugg SL, Frykberg E, Yeh K, Bell RM, Metcalf JS, Elliott BM, Brothers T, Robison J, Mitas M, Cole DJ. Molecular detection of micrometastatic breast cancer in histopathology-negative axillary lymph nodes correlates with traditional predictors of prognosis: an interim analysis of a prospective multi-institutional cohort study. Ann Surg. 2004 Jun;239(6):828-37; discussion 837-40.
• Nicholl M, Lodge A, Brown I, Sugg SL, and Shilyansky J. Restored immune response to an MHC-II-Restricted antigen in tumor-bearing hosts after elimination of regulatory T cells. J Pediatr Surg. 2004. June;39(6): 941-6.
• Chen X, Doffek K, Sugg SL, and Shilyansky J. Phosphatidylserine Regulates the Maturation of Human Dendritic Cells.  J Immunology 2004 Sept 1; 173(5): 2985-2994.
• Sugg SL,  Krzywda EA, Demeure MJ, and Wilson SJ.  Detection of multiple gland primary hyperparathyroidism in the era of minimally invasive parathyroidectomy.  Surgery 2004 Dec; 136(6): 1303-9.
• Doffek K, Chen X, Gavin C, Sugg S, Shilyansky J.: PS modulates DC maturation and function by inhibiting ERK1/2, NFkB and p38 MAPK activation in response to LPS.  International Proceedings of Immunology, 2004. 395-400.
• Lodge A, Yu P, Nicholl M, Brown I, Jackson C, Schreiber K, Sugg S, Schreiber H, Shilyansky J. CD40 ligation restores cytolytic T lymphocyte (CTL) response and eliminates murine fibrosarcoma in mice lacking CD4+ T cells. Cancer Immunology Immunotherapy. 2006. Feb 21 [Epub ahead of print].
• Jacobs P, Doffek K, Sugg SL, Shilyansky J. Induction of cytolytic T lymphocytes (CTL) against pediatric solid tumors in vitro using autologous DCs pulsed with necrotic primary tumor. Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 2006. In press.
• Yen TW, Wilson SD, Krzywda EA, Sugg SL. The role of parathyroid hormone (PTH) measurements after surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism. Surgery 2006 (in review).