Metro Detroit Health Guide 2022

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TORS, TOP DOCISTS, DENT E & MOR

An overlooked group of frontline workers affected by the pandemic

Local indivduals and companies making a difference in health care

Let’s Play (Pickle) Ball!

Staying active on the court with Stanley Cup champ Kris Draper

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VA K H A R I YA & A S S O C I AT E S

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Your health and beauty are in exceptional hands with Star Plastic Surgery in Novi. Dr. Elan Reisin, M.D., F.A.C.S., and his team of surgeons have completed more than 15,000 cosmetic surgeries. Dr. Reisin, Medical Director at Star Plastic Surgery, is a multiyear Hour Detroit Top Doc honoree. Dr. Reisin is board-certified in plastic and reconstructive surgery, and has received numerous national awards. After five years of serving as an attending physician and teaching surgical residents at the prestigious Georgetown University Hospital Department of Plastic Surgery, Dr. Reisin decided to create Star Plastic Surgery, a pre-eminent, state-of-the-art AAAHC surgical center and medical spa. As a member of the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Dr. Reisin has traveled internationally to learn from top plastic surgeons. He has also given back through philanthropic trips to the Dominican Republic to treat children with congenital and traumatic deformities.

44050 W. 12 Mile, MI 48377 :: 248-735-3800 :: mystardr.com

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Restoring Mobility and Improving Lives With surgery, Dr. DeClaire’s patients struggling with knee pain have their lives transformed. Thousands of patients have reclaimed their mobility and are now living life without pain, getting back to the activities they love.

Board-certified, fellowship-trained orthopeadic knee specialist Dr. Jeffrey H. DeClaire and the team at Michigan Knee Institute are committed to improving patients’ mobility and quality of life by utilizing advanced technology and the most innovative minimally invasive procedures and treatment options, performing over 1000 knee surgeries a year. For over 25 years, Dr. DeClaire has been an international leader in the advancements and innovations in outpatient partial and total knee replacement surgery.

Expertise, Excellence, and Quality 1135 West University Drive, Suite 450, Rochester Hills, MI 48307 | 248.650.2400 | michiganknee.com

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NURSES

TRUE GRIT. TRUE HEART. TRUE TEAMWORK. Beaumont nurses are amazing.

They are resilient. And they give tirelessly every day to provide care and comfort to patients and their families.

Their continuous grit, heart and extraordinary teamwork are what make a difference in the communities we serve.

Nurses, we thank you for your commitment and celebrate you and what you have been called to do.

CELEBRATE NURSES WEEK MAY 6-12

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Professionals who work with children and teens have a disturbing message for society at large: our kids are not alright.

Here’s what parents and guardians can do to help.

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The fastest-growing sport in the U.S. is no longer just for seniors.

Don’t believe us? Just ask Stanley Cup champion Kris Draper.

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Wherever you go, we go too.

We’re here for it all.

Confidence comes with every card.®

Whether at home or on the go, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is with you every step of the way.

With the largest network of the highest-quality doctors and hospitals in Michigan, Blue Cross gives you access to the care you need however, wherever and whenever you need it. Including our 24-Hour Nurse Line, online visits, mental health support, urgent care and more. So, you’re covered anytime, anywhere. We’re here for it all and always will be.

Learn more at HereForItAll.com Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network are nonprofit corporations and independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.

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Contents

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PROFILE

A local plastic surgeon-turned-TikTok star administers a healthy dose of laughter.

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COVID-19

Professional health care roles have changed drastically since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and one local pharmacist has something to say about it.

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WELLNESS

A cancer survivor discovers the many benefits of Pilates.

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RETAIL

Whatever your fitness goals, you can look good while chasing them in simple yet stylish workout gear.

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NUTRITION

Mushrooms are finally having their day in the sun.

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PREVENTION

Heart attacks and cancer are still topping the charts as the leading causes of death in America. It raises the question: What are we doing about prevention?

NEWSMAKERS

Local companies and individuals are making a difference in health care.

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ESSAY

Medicine’s aggressive push toward breastfeeding may actually be harming families.

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SKIN CARE

A local health care worker creates an all-natural skin care brand suitable for herself and, hopefully, many others.

Tool Kit for Life Your resource for the best health care providers in metro Detroit 41 63 72 75 86

2021 TOP DOCTORS 2021 TOP DENTISTS 2022 TOP CHIROPRACTORS SENIOR SERVICES DIRECTORY HOSPITAL DIRECTORY

RESEARCH

Parting Shot

Catch up on intriguing findings from researchers across the state of Michigan.

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HEALTH CARE

Missed screenings due to the pandemic have affected health for patients of every age.

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Contributors & Staff

Cambrey Thomas // WRITER

Jennifer Sams // WRITER Nolan Bianchi // WRITER Nolan Bianchi is a Detroit-based freelance journalist who covers the Lions, the Red Wings, and everything in between. He is the former host of the Locked On Red Wings hockey podcast. Turn to page 34 to read his story on former Red Wing Kris Draper. To stay healthy, Bianchi participates in sports at his local gym and begins every day with a green smoothie.

Cambrey Thomas is a senior brand manager at General Motors, where she focuses on storytelling. After graduating from Northwestern and Columbia universities, Cambrey carved out a career in New York that included working with Self, Glamour, Allure, and Essence magazines.

She now lives in Detroit.

Read her story on Pilates on page 18. In addition to practicing Pilates, Thomas stays healthy by drinking a green juice or smoothie daily, adding collagen to her morning coffee, and picking up the odd cardio dance class or infrared sauna session whenever she can.

Jennifer Sams is a freelance journalist who writes about emerging trends in health and wellness. She lives in Grosse Pointe Farms with her husband and two miniature schnauzers, Earle and Sherman. Read her story on the health benefits of mushrooms on page 20. Sams stays healthy by exercising (yoga, walking, strength training and/or cardio) every morning, sticking to a mostly plant-based diet, aiming for seven hours of sleep, limiting screen time, and avoiding sugar like the plague.

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It Runs in the Family.

Dr. Christina Busuito recently joined her father, Dr. Michael Busuito, in the group practice of Somerset Plastic Surgery in Troy, Michigan. Dr. Michael Busuito has over 32 years of experience in the practice of plastic and cosmetic sursur gery. He’s also been named an Hour Detroit magazine Top Doc again this year.

Dr. Christina Busuito practices all disciplines of plastic surgery and completed a fellowship in cosmetic surgery at the presti-gious Beverly Hills Physicians in California.

Dr. Christina Busuito’s husband, Dr. Nate Marshall, is an ortho-pedic sports surgeon practicing in the Ascension hospitals in southeast Michigan. Dr. Marshall completed his fellowship at the world renowned Kerlan Jobe Orthopedic Clinic in Los Angeles.

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All three family members are proud Hour Detroit magazine Top Doc honorees who look forward to continuing in the family tradition of Top Doc excellence.

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P L A ST IC S URGE RY Dr. Christina M. Busuito

1080 Kirts Blvd. Suite 700 Troy, MI 48084 somersetplasticsurgery.com 248.362.2300

NATURAL RESULTS, UNCOMPROMISING STANDARDS Our patients and their well-being is our top priority.

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PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES With Head and Spine Techniques MHSI is the largest, most experienced group of physicians in Southeast Michigan dedicated to treating patients with disorders of the head and spine. Why travel from office to office when MHSI provides the full spectrum of head and spine care.

MHSI provides the full spectrum of head and spine care: • Neurosurgery • Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation • Medical Acupuncture • Neurology • Neuropsychology

NEUROSURGERY Fernando G. Diaz, M.D., Ph.D. Christopher J. Elia, D.O. Daniel K. Fahim, M.D. Richard D. Fessler, M.D. Holly S. Gilmer, M.D. Mark L. Goldberger, D.O., M.S. Jeffrey T. Jacob, M.D. Robert R. Johnson II, M.D. Fredrick S. Junn, M.D. Kevin R. Lee, M.D. Ali W. Luqman, M.D. Ratnesh N. Mehra, D.O. Daniel B. Michael, M.D., Ph.D. Todd Y. Nida, M.D., F.A.C.S. Tejpaul S. Pannu, M.D. Mick J. Perez-Cruet, M.D. Pradeep Setty, D.O. Michael D. Staudt, M.D., MSc John J. Steele, M.D., Ph.D. Richard S. Veyna, M.D.

PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION Robert P. Farhat, D.O. Karl R. Freydl, D.O. Natalia V. Glisky, M.D. Sophia E. Grias-Radwanski, M.D. John M. Marshall, M.D. Henry C. Tong, M.D., M.S.

MEDICAL ACUPUNCTURE Alison Lee, M.D.

NEUROLOGY David Lustig, D.O. Ahmad Thabet, M.D. John Whapham, M.D., M.S., FSNIS, FAAN

NEUROPSYCHOLOGY Lisa Metler, Ph.D.

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Cutting Edge Local companies and individuals making a difference in health care

BY BRIANNA BLACKSHIRE AND ASHLEY WINN

Pets for Vets U.S. Rep. for Michigan Elissa Slotkin was the driving force behind the Puppies Assisting Wounded Servicemembers (or PAWS) for Veterans Therapy Act, which promises greater access to therapy dogs for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. The measure went into effect in January, establishing a multimillion-dollar Department of Veterans Affairs program. The five-year pilot program is starting off with five locations, one of which — if Slotkin has her way — will be placed in Ann Arbor and will work closely with local nonprofit Blue Star Service Dogs.

Previously, the VA had covered only part of the cost of service dogs. Even this aid was available only to veterans with certain physical disabilities. PAWS requires that the VA cover the costs in full for all eligible veterans with diagnosed mental illness, regardless of mobility status.

Ultra-rapid Test Detroit’s World Wide Clinical Labz partnered with Baebies medical technology company to introduce what it calls an “ultra-rapid” COVID-19 test. The new testing platform, Finder 1.5, launched in January and yields results in 17 minutes.

That’s a one-hundredth of the typical 24hour waiting period associated with the conventional rapid test. It also trumps the original in terms of efficacy, delivering 100 percent accuracy rates for both positive and negative results in recent validation trials by World Wide Labz. The laboratory administers the test through partners including independent physician groups and Wayne State University. It also offers Finder 1.5 for incoming and outgoing travelers at the Ambassador Bridge.

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A Leg Up Knee replacement is the most common surgery in the U.S., with 700,000 operations recorded by the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons in 2020 alone. And that number is only expected to grow. The procedure is also notorious for its lengthy recovery time and tendency to oblige prolonged opioid use. But a technology recently developed

by Southfield-based Halley Orthopedics has the potential to ease these burdens.

The smart machine and physical therapy technique that comprise the new X10 Therapy have been shown to cut recovery time by 80 percent, with patients regaining full strength and range of motion in just four to six weeks (as opposed to six months with traditional therapy).

This is in addition to preventing pain and reducing the need for prescription drugs. The treatment is available in more than 30 states, including Michigan, and is covered by many insurance providers, such as Blue Cross Blue Shield and Medicare.

Pass It on Down Detroit native Tyra Moore was confused and unprepared when she found herself pregnant at the age of 15. Yet, she would survive the challenging situation — a feat she credits to the kindness of friends and neighbors. She was so inspired by their compassion that she resolved to extend that goodwill to others. “I made it my goal to formally create an organization that created the same community for girls who found themselves in similar situations.”

So, in 2017, she founded A Girl Like Me — a local nonprofit organization that provides teen and young moms up to 25 years old with support and basic-needs items, such as soap, deodorant, menstrual products, diapers, formula, and baby gear. The organization recently expanded to launch a mentorship program for girls ages 11-17.

It aims to teach health, confidence, and decision-making through coaching, lifeskills workshops, and community service.

The program, Moore says, serves a main tenet of the organization. “Our whole mission is focused on reducing teen-related pregnancy through education centered around sexual and reproductive health.”

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Originally from a small mid-Michigan town, Dr. Anthony Youn runs a cosmetic surgery practice in Troy.

RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN the emergence of the “medfluencer,” a term used to refer to the medical doctors who have begun amassing substantial social media followings. One exceedingly popular “medfluencer” is Troy cosmetic surgeon Anthony Youn, 49, who also happens to be a veteran of Hour Detroit’s Top Doctors and Best of Detroit lists.

Youn grew up in the small mid-Michigan town of Greenville, graduated from Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine, and completed a yearlong fellowship in Los Angeles before returning to open his own practice, Youn Plastic Surgery. Now a practitioner of 20 years, Youn also operates a TikTok channel, where he cracks up nearly 7.5 million followers with advice, celebrity plastic surgery commentary, and behindthe-scenes peeks into the procedures he performs. Examples of his videos include “The Tummy Tuck I Did Today” and “Celebrity Butts: Real or Sus?”

The Best Medicine

Plastic surgeon-turned-TikTok star Dr. Anthony Youn administers a healthy dose of laughter

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Tell me about your journey into the field of cosmetic surgery. My dad, a first-generation immigrant, grew up on a small Korean rice farm and became a doctor. To him, medicine equaled success — which isn’t uncommon with Asian parents — so, literally the day I was born, he decided I’d be a doctor. My parents hoped I’d be some high-powered neuro- or transplant surgeon, but while attending medical school, I quickly realized I wasn’t suited for that. I just didn’t have the intense personality necessary for those kinds of specialties. But I discovered cosmetic surgery, and that really spoke to me.

How so? It was my fourth year of medical school, during my pediatrics rotation, when I encountered a child who had lost most of her face in a wild animal attack.

I saw what the plastic surgeons were doing to reconstruct her face, and that was the first time I considered going into the field.

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Back then, did you think you’d be internet famous someday? No! When I first moved back to Michigan and started my practice, after my fellowship in LA, nobody knew who I was. I was hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and I had no office, no employees, no patients. I did everything I could to get my name out there — printing shirts with my practice name, giving talks at any club that would have me. I even got my hair cut two or three times a week, just for the chance to give out my business card. I was really struggling.

Most plastic surgeons are eager to enter the lucrative Los Angeles market. Why leave? The atmosphere wasn’t for me. It was all about appearance and money and not about truly helping people. To many doctors out there, patients are basically just dollar signs, and that wasn’t what I believed in.

That wasn’t the way my dad treated his patients, and it wasn’t the way I wanted to treat mine.

So, when did things turn around for you? I had filmed with Dr. 90210 during my time in California, and a couple months into all this, it finally came time for the episode to air. I sat down to watch, thinking, “This is my big break — I’m gonna be on TV!” I was on and off screen within three minutes. But in that time, they mentioned my practice in Michigan, and the next day, I gained 10 new patients. That little three-minute segment powered my practice for two years. That taught me the power of media. So, from there, I kept doing shows like Rachael Ray and Dr. Oz, and eventually, I got into social media.

How did you become TikTok famous?

I had been using Facebook and Instagram, but come late 2019, everyone was talking about TikTok. So, on a whim, I decided to check it out. I started getting a bit of a following — nothing special — then, when the pandemic hit, my office shut down for months, and I had tons of time. I volunteered in the COVID unit at Beaumont, but I wondered what else I could do to help people. I thought, “If I can entertain someone, give them a little

Youn, known on TikTok as Tonyyounmd, has garnered 7.5 million followers on the platform.

“If I can entertain someone, give them a little chuckle, maybe I could lift them out of this dark time for 30 seconds. So, I started making these videos, and they struck a chord. My audience exploded.”

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chuckle, maybe I could lift them out of this dark time for 30 seconds.” So, I started making these videos, and they struck a chord. My audience exploded.

Why do you think people online gravitate toward you? I think there’s a certain ego people expect from a plastic surgeon. But I’m just a small-town Midwestern guy who ended up doing pretty well for himself. I’ve never thought of myself as anything more than that, and maybe that comes through.

Have you received backlash from the medical community for your online presence? Definitely. People have come after me, calling me all kinds of names, saying I should lose my license.

I’ve had other doctors call and say, “I just wanna warn you: Some people aren’t happy with you.” And you know what my answer to that is? I really just don’t care.

If I feel in my heart that I’m doing the right thing — if my wife and kids love me — then I don’t care if some doctor in Boise, Idaho, thinks I’m a clown.

What motivates you to get up and do what you do each day? When I started out as a doctor, my goal was to establish myself. Once I hit that, my goal became helping more people by developing my practice. After that, I was looking for a way to impact even more people and got into social media. That allowed me to go from helping 20 patients per day in my office to helping 200,000 people each day. So, at each step of this journey, I’ve been able to impact more people than at the step before, and it’s been such a privilege.

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Not What the Doctor Ordered Pharmacists have watched their roles change drastically, due to the pandemic, and there are some things they want you to know

BY LINDSAY KALTER PHOTOGRAPH BY MATTHEW LaVERE

WHEN YOU THINK OF FRONTLINE

workers affected by the pandemic, your local pharmacist may not be the first to come to mind. But even pre-pandemic, pharmacy was a tense and demanding field. A study of pharmacists’ mental health, from January 2020, found 75 percent of study participants experienced burnout. Since then, things have only gotten more demanding, due to the increase in prescription volume, COVID testing, vaccinations, and constant virusrelated inquiries from the public.

Hour Detroit talked to Farah Jalloul, director of professional development for the Michigan Pharmacists Association and part-time CVS pharmacist, about how the pandemic has transformed life for community pharmacists.

How has the pandemic affected stress levels for pharmacists? In pharmacy, we are in contact with individuals who might have COVID. Pharmacists are at risk. People get ill, and we end up sending people home, which leaves us with not enough staff and people working overtime.

It’s very stressful.

[To address] the increased level of stress and burnout, the Michigan Pharmacists Association assembled a workplace environment task force filled with leaders that have been through the spectrum of pharmacy. It addresses certain mental health issues and new challenges for pharmacists.

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Farah Jalloul has been working as a pharmacist since 2017.

How has work increased for pharmacists? If you think about it, pharmacists are [our] most accessible health care professionals. There are pharmacies that are open 24 hours a day. Some individuals, especially at the peak of the pandemic, had patients coming through the drive-thru to talk to a pharmacist, because they didn’t want to go to urgent care.

Now we are administering vaccines and COVID testing at high volumes.

Luckily, we are utilizing our pharmacy technicians, but we are often shortstaffed, and there are only so many people to help. It’s continual interruptions.

We have to make sure that everything is going the right way, and we have to communicate with frustrated patients. It’s a lot of conflict resolution.

How has vaccine skepticism and general uncertainty among the public affected pharmacists’ jobs?

We had gotten used to flu season, but with the COVID vaccine, there was so much resistance. So, for many people, pharmacists became the trusted healthcare professionals who would take the time to talk to them about the vaccine.

Especially right after the vaccine rollout, people had a lot of questions. I was happy to address those questions, but it does take you away from the floor. Spending 25 minutes answering questions may not sound like a lot, but it does take you away from your other responsibilities.

What do you want people to remember the next time they go to the pharmacy?

There’s a saying about pharmacy work — that it’s just “pour, lick ’em, and stick ’em.”

Maybe that’s what it was once, but it’s no longer like that. Pharmacists are saving lives. … I would say, try to understand that we are trying to do the best that we can to make sure everyone who comes in is taken care of adequately.

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“I want people to shake off this notion that it is just going to the gym and doing crunches.

Pilates is a real study on your body.”

—ELISSHA BATE, PILATES INSTRUCTOR AT EQUILIBRIUM PILATES STUDIO IN BLOOMFIELD HILLS

Core Values A cancer survivor discovers the many benefits of Pilates

BY CAMBREY THOMAS

“THAT’S LIKE YOGA, RIGHT?” asks Elissha Bate. She’s joking.

Bate is a certified, level 1 Stott Pilates instructor at Equilibrium Studio, in Bloomfield Hills. While Bate doesn’t see Pilates as the fringe practice it once was, she’s aware that not many people have stepped into a studio, let alone raised their knees into tabletop on the equipment. “It’s a method, and it’s a discipline,” she says. “And that’s what I want people to understand.”

Bate’s classes are exacting. Whether in a class or a private session, she smiles as she calls out the minute movements of your ribs or the depth of your ab tuck. While challenging, her approach sees her working with clients from teens to limber

LOOKING TO TRY PILATES?

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Equilibrium Studio Part Stott Pilates studio, part education center, this is an authentic Pilates experience with a focus on classical technique and Gyrotonic. Bloomfield Hills and Birmingham: equilibriumstudio.com

90-year-olds and the physically disabled.

“I want people to shake off this notion that it is just going to the gym and doing crunches. Pilates is a real study on your body.”

I was in my early 20s when I started practicing Pilates in New York City. I had only read about it in magazines, but between the words and the glossy photos of svelte bodies, there was a glint of something more profound.

As a cancer survivor who had spent several years ailing from a laundry list of maladies, I felt off. The body that helped me survive looked fine on the outside but felt stiff and weak. With its promise of alignment and mind-body connection, Pilates sounded like my great panacea. And in many ways, it was.

The bed-like equipment and succession of graceful moves allowed me to tap into a physicality that awakened long dormant muscles. I walked taller and felt knit together from my core. Not only did my clothes fit better, but I could ease into other forms of exercise — like boot camps and cardio dance — without feeling completely undone.

Reforming Foundations Pilates & Wellness Innovative classes, cool playlists, and an infrared sauna for reviving sore muscles. Plus, a classroom fitted with infrared panels for hot Pilates. Berkley: reformingfoundations.com

The Corner Studio Pilates & Lagree This chic and cozy loftstyle space has a fireplace, Megaformers for Lagree, and a private room for one-on-one instruction. Grosse Pointe: thecornerstudiogp.com

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Twenty-six years ago, Nancy Hodari, owner and founder of Equilibrium Studio, was practicing law and training to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. She woke up one night with no feeling on one side of her body. Hodari had a nerve injury and needed a back surgery — her third — to fix it. “I had to walk with the brace, as a result of the surgery, so I started doing research, and I read about Pilates,” she tells me. There weren’t any studios in Michigan, at the time, so she flew to New York to work one-on-one with an instructor. Serendipitously, she found an Ann Arbor woman teaching Pilates out of her basement, once back in Michigan.

In seeing her for sessions that focused on postural muscles, Hodari learned to walk without the brace.

Once healed, Hodari wasted no time in altering her career course. “I didn’t think Oakland County needed another lawyer, so I opened the first Pilates studio in Michigan.”

In 2019, I moved back to Detroit just before the pandemic shutdowns. After sedentarily sheltering in place, that “off ” feeling crept back in and I had to act. It was then that I discovered Equilibrium and met Hodari.

Ever the over-achiever, I ended up going to classes at several studios nearly every day of the week. After two months, I realized I was on the edge of overexerting myself to make up for years I didn’t practice. I needed to trust the method and my own body to do the work, especially considering my reason for starting the practice in the first place — wellness, not fitness.

Pilates, like all exercise methods, is unregulated. However, there are several licensing organizations that grant certification. And countless scientific studies have tracked the method’s efficacy among those with back pain and those undergoing cancer treatment, particularly for breast cancer. “We have people going through chemotherapy who schedule their Pilates on the day they receive treatment,” Hodari says. A 2010 study showed that breast cancer patients who practiced Pilates enjoyed a higher quality of life, with fewer instances of fatigue and depression.

Even if you’re only looking for a workout, Sports Health confirms Pilates can increase relaxation, boost core stability, and improve posture. “I think everyone needs Pilates. It’s like health insurance,” Hodari says.

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The Fungus Among Us Mushrooms are finally having their day in the sun

BY JENNIFER SAMS

NO, YOU’RE NOT SEEING THINGS. Mushrooms are

everywhere. From granola and meat-free jerky to the vast array of “functional” beverages like coffee, tea, and sparkling water, the wellness world is in the midst of a fungi frenzy.

This undoubtedly comes as no surprise to traditional practitioners, who have been using mushrooms for their purported health and healing properties for centuries. As a 2011 Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine report on the uses of cordyceps points out, “Mushrooms have been used as food, medicine, poison, and in spiritual mushroom practices in religious rituals across the world since at least 5000 B.C.” Dr. Melissa Sundermann, who practices at IHA, in Hamburg, shared her insight on the benefits of a fungi-forward diet: “The fiber content is what we look at for nurturing our gut microbiome, which is probably the pulse of our entire existence; 70 percent of our immune system and 90 percent of our serotonins reside there.

A healthier gut microbiome reduces inflammation everywhere, from diabetes, heart disease, dementia, weight, and stability.”

Those living in colder regions — like Michigan — may be especially intrigued by another health benefit. “I find that [in the winter] most of my patients are vitamin D deficient, and that’s because it’s really difficult to get it in our diet.” Sundermann explains that, just like humans, mushrooms produce vitamin D when they are exposed to ultraviolet light. “Maitakes are one of the most powerful producers of vitamin D,” Sundermann says.

She cautions that shoppers should check labels to ensure the mushrooms for sale have been exposed to UV light.

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“Mushrooms have been used as food, medicine, poison, and in spiritual mushroom practices in religious rituals across the world since at least 5000 B.C.”

decriminalization of — hallucinogenic mushrooms has played a role in calling this new level of attention to the health benefits of edible mushrooms. But this coincides with another lifestyle trend: People are moving away from meat. According to a 2020 survey from Gallup, nearly one in four (23 percent of ) Americans reported eating less meat than they had previously.

This is good news for mushrooms, whose hearty texture and umami-rich flavor make them a viable alternative.

Carly Feldmeier, a holistic nutritionist in St. Joseph, explains why she’s partial to the shiitake. “It is my favorite edible mushroom because it’s a potent antiviral medicine that we can do simple extractions with at home, like throwing them in a broth or chopping them up and sauteing them. I think they’re really underrated.”

While most of those surveyed in the Gallup poll attributed their diet change to health concerns, some said they did it for environmental reasons. Kelsey Taylor, owner of Magic Moon Mushrooms in Redford and self-described “mycophile,” has been producing mushroom supplements for about three years. She says she first started learning about mushrooms while studying regenerative farming techniques. “You can’t know anything about soil without learning about fungal networks and mycelial connections.”

The United States Department of Agriculture breaks down the science on just that: Fungi “convert hard-to-digest organic material into forms that other organisms can use. Fungal hyphae physically bind soil particles together, creating stable aggregates that help increase water infiltration and soil water holding capacity.”

Chris Swinson, CFO (as in chief fungal officer) of Mycophile’s Garden, in Grand Rapids, is one of an increasing number of people specializing in creating mushroombased products. Swinson spends a lot of time at farmers markets, where he is witnessing the sea change firsthand.

“We’re seeing fewer people who leer at the mushrooms and just walk by.”

When it comes to fungi, Sundermann is excited about the possibilities. “Cordyceps are used for oxidative stress, recovery, and energy,” she says. “Shiitakes help with lowering blood pressure and cholesterol.

Reishi can be used to help with sleep and anxiety. ... It’s fascinating the benefits that mushrooms provide and the vast array of species that are edible out there.”

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CARAMELIZED LEEK AND SEARED MUSHROOM TOAST Makes 4 servings INGREDIENTS: Mustard-pine nut spread 3/4 cup pine nuts 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil 2 1/2 Tbsp. whole-grain mustard 1 tsp. dark agave nectar Fine sea salt and freshly ground white pepper Toast 1 lb. wild mushrooms, such as maitake, chestnut, or chanterelle 2 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil, plus some to brush on the bread Kosher salt 1 cup finely chopped leek (about 1 medium) 1 Tbsp. minced fresh thyme 4 thick slices sourdough or other rustic bread 1 Tbsp. chopped fresh tarragon Flaky sea salt and freshly ground white pepper

DIRECTIONS: Make the spread In a small skillet, toast the pine nuts over medium-high heat, shaking the pan for even cooking, until they start turning golden, about 3 minutes. Using a mortar and pestle, grind the nuts into a fine paste.

Add the olive oil, mustard, agave, a pinch of salt, and a few turns of white pepper, and stir well to combine. Set aside.

Make the toast Clean the mushrooms. Remove any tough stems and, if you are using larger mushrooms, chop them to ensure all pieces are fairly uniform in size.

In a cast-iron skillet, warm 1 tablespoon of the olive oil over medium heat. When it starts to shimmer, add the mushrooms and a generous pinch of salt, being careful not to overcrowd the pan. Cook, stirring often and scraping the pan, until the liquid released by the mushrooms has fully evaporated and the mushrooms are starting to brown, 7 to 10 minutes. Turn off the heat, transfer the mushrooms to a

medium bowl, and set aside.

In the same skillet, warm the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil over medium-low heat until shimmering. Add the leek and cook until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the thyme and a pinch of salt, and cook until the leek is browning and fragrant, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to a small bowl and set aside.

Position an oven rack about 6 inches from the broiler heat element, and preheat the broiler to high.

Arrange the bread on a baking sheet and broil until golden brown. Flip the bread and broil for about 30 seconds on the other side; take it out of the oven quickly, so it doesn’t burn.

To serve, arrange one slice of toast on each of four small plates and brush with olive oil. Generously slather on the mustard-pine nut spread, spoon on the leek mixture, then evenly distribute the mushrooms over the top. Garnish each with a tiny bit of tarragon (just enough for a few pops of flavor), then season with flake salt and a few turns of white pepper, and enjoy.

Recipe reprinted with permission from Vegetable Kingdom: The Abundant World of Vegan Recipes by Bryant Terry, copyright © 2020. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

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Study Breaks Intriguing findings from Michigan universities

BY STEVE FRIESS

What might make your kid become a hacker?

An analysis of self-reported information from more than 66,000 kids in middle school and high school around the world shows that the most serious underage computer criminals have suffered trauma, bullying, or isolation, according to a paper published in the journal Criminal Justice and Behavior and co-written by Thomas Holt, chair of the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. Other qualities common among adolescents looking to commit online crime include impulsivity and susceptibility to peer pressure. Holt and co-author Bryanna Fox of the University of South Florida say recognizing these triggers could help parents and school officials intervene and identify what kind of psychotherapy could help rehabilitate the offenders.

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Syndrome predicts COVID outcome WE’VE KNOWN SINCE the pandemic’s early days that people with “underlying conditions” were at greater risk of severe cases and death, but the term was so broad as to be useless. At Wayne State University researchers zeroed in on one cluster of ailments known as metabolic syndrome that can predict coronavirus outcomes, according to a paper published in the Journal of Diabetes. Studying 1,871 patients beset by COVID-19 in Detroit-area hospitals at the outset of the crisis, WSU School of Medicine professor Prateek Lohia, an internist, found that patients who had a combination of diabetes, obesity, hypertension, high triglycerides, and high cholesterol suffered “significantly higher mortality, increased ICU admissions, and need for mechanical ventilation” than COVID-19 patients with any of those conditions alone.

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Link between COVID and diabetes

MSU graduate student Zach Morehouse was part of a team that developed a new test for SARS-CoV-2 that takes half the time, costs less, and requires fewer materials. The process, published in the journal PLOS One, could be a boon for providing inexpensive and accurate tests in far-flung and less affluent corners of the globe, such as Malawi, where it was field tested.

“Having the ability to bring this technology into resource-challenged areas that maybe can’t afford to set up a fully-automated testing lab really helps,” says Morehouse.

Dr. W. James Melvin, a Michigan Medicine researcher, says he and his team have identified an enzyme that makes people with Type 2 diabetes significantly more susceptible to severe illness if they are infected with COVID-19. What’s more, identification of the enzyme has opened up new avenues for more effective treatments that involve administering interferon beta, which helps the body produce certain enzymes that COVID-19 suppresses.

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Those cups of coffee or cans of Red Bull only go so far in helping sleep-deprived people function properly, according to a Michigan State University study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. MSU researchers say caffeine does help people stay awake by increasing energy, but it didn’t help similarly tired people to efficiently or successfully complete a series of tasks in a study of 276 participants at the school’s Sleep and Learning Lab. Psychology professor Kimberly Fenn, the lead researcher, says caffeine may help you not fall back asleep, but it doesn’t “prevent the sort of procedural errors that can cause things like medical mistakes and car accidents.”

Patients predict their own dementia Older people who complain about cognitive declines, despite exhibiting no clinically detected impairments, frequently are presaging their future brain disorders, according to a Wayne State University study published in the journal Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy. WSU gerontologists Jessica Damoiseaux and Raymond Viviano followed 69 women ages 50 to 85 who reported cognitive issues by conducting a series of MRIs over a three-year timespan.

They found significant changes in two areas of the brain that, in their earlier forms, may have been noticeable by the patients, though not visible on scans.

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No apples a day keeps sleep away The lack of fruits and vegetables in the diets of young adults could be causing chronic insomnia, according to a study of more than 1,400 people in their 20s, led by U-M nutritional sciences professor Erica Jansen and published in Sleep Health Journal. The good news, Jansen says, is that it’s easily correctable — by eating five servings a day. A serving is generally understood as between 4 and 6 ounces, according to the Mayo Clinic. “What is unique about our study is that we were able to see that as fruit and vegetable intake changed, insomnia-related sleep characteristics also changed,” Jansen says.

Vaping pot worse than e-cigs?

Teens who inhale cannabis via vape pens are more likely to develop breathing problems than those who vape tobacco products or even those who smoke either cigarettes or marijuana joints, according to research appearing in the Journal of Adolescent Health last spring, led

by University of Michigan nursing professor Carol Boyd. Kids who vaped pot were twice as likely to report “wheezing and whistling” in their chests than those who did not. Boyd says the researchers were surprised by the findings and stresses that smoking anything is dangerous and unhealthy for developing bodies.

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Fictional gunplay takes toll on kids THE ENTERTAINMENT industry has long pushed back against the notion that kids are desensitized to violence by what they see in video games, on TV, and in movies. Yet, a study co-authored by U-M psychology researcher L. Rowell Huesmann and published in the journal Aggressive Behavior found that exposure to both real and fictional gun violence “predicts more gun use or threatening to use weapons, and normative beliefs that gun use is acceptable.” The research tracked second, fourth, and ninth graders in Flint over the course of 10 years.

Doggy day care is important for healing

Babies follow their gut, literally An examination of the contents of your infant or toddler’s belly may explain how their brain reacts to perceived danger and whether they experience excessive anxiety, a study by Michigan State University and University of North Carolina researchers says. The report, published in the journal Nature Communications, asserts that the composition of microorganisms in babies’ stomachs can impact neurological development. The scientists analyzed babies’ stool samples and assessed their reaction to a stranger entering a room wearing a Halloween mask. More fearful kids had more of certain bacteria in their guts than the calmer children.

LGB seniors at higher risk for dementia A study of the cognitive skills of about 3,500 older people found lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals are at higher risk of developing dementia than the heterosexual population.

The research, led by Michigan State University sociologist Ning Hsieh, was published in the journal The Gerontologist. Hsieh says the results suggest that stress and depression experienced earlier in life, and perhaps brought on by societal bigotry, may contribute to the later development of brain disease.

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Countless professional communities have historically relegated women to the sidelines, often citing the supposed “emotional volatility” caused by ovarian hormone fluctuations. And academia is no exception, having long relied on this logic to exclude women from academic research. Noting this, a group of University of Michigan researchers, led by psychology professor Adriene Beltz, decided to test this theory.

They surveyed 142 men and women over a 75-day period, to learn more about their daily emotions. Their study, which was published in the Scientific Report last fall, compared the emotional fluctuations of the male and female participants, revealing only minor distinctions.

From COVID to zinc Male and female COVID-19 sufferers and survivors trying to conceive babies may benefit from taking zinc supplements to boost fertility and prevent damage to the egg or sperm, Wayne State University researchers reported in the journal Reproductive Sciences. Fighting the coronavirus can result in zinc depletion, and that can interfere with conception, according to findings from obstetrics associate professor Husam Abu-Soud, who led the research. Zinc may also lessen pregnancy complications, Abu-Soud’s team found.

PATIENTS WHO ARE ANXIOUS about care for their household pets struggle to focus on recovery and tend to leave hospitals earlier than advised, according to research conducted by University of Michigan neurologist Tiffany Braley and published in the Journal of Patient Experience. Braley found that 63 percent of patients said they had trouble figuring out who would watch their dogs, cats, or other pets while they or a loved one were hospitalized, and 16 percent knew someone who had left the hospital against medical advice out of concern for the animals. “We see a rising need for a formalized service to identify patients early in their course who need assistance with pet care, and a need to provide better resources, before it becomes a crisis and impacts their care or the welfare of their pets,” Braley says.

These briefs were previously published in Hour Detroit in 2021-2022.

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Three Tests That Could Save Your Life With heart attacks and cancer still topping the charts as the leading causes of death in America, what are we doing about prevention?

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GIVEN THE DAUNTING Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistic of nearly 700,000 deaths caused by heart attacks in 2020, the standard package of screening tests, which includes the stress test, the CT arteriogram, and ranking cholesterol levels, falls short of predicting risk. More sophisticated and reliable screenings lie in two quick, easy, and noninvasive tests that provide clear, photographic measures of the plaque that leads to blockage and potential rupturing of the artery wall, causing cardiac arrest.

According to Dr. Nishath Hakim, an internal medicine specialist in Bloomfield Hills, the cardiac CT calcium scoring test, which assesses and renders a numerical score for the level of plaque in the arteries, remains a seldom-prescribed test, even though it’s now performed as an outpatient procedure at almost every hospital. It is not covered by insurance and costs about $100.

The more dependable test is the CIMT, or carotid intima-media thickness test, says Dr. Brian Kolender, an internal medicine specialist based in Bingham Farms who focuses on heart attack and stroke prevention. This noninvasive, focused ultrasound of the neck arteries, which takes about 10 minutes, can predict with 85 to 95 percent accuracy a patient’s risk of suffering a stroke or heart attack within the next 10 years. The CIMT identifies objective visual markers that indicate risk better than any of the standard tests and is considered by

physicians who specialize in prevention to be the gold standard.

Hakim and Kolender both stress the importance of the CIMT test for all patients at increased risk for heart attack or stroke. With interpretation and medical management, says Kolender, patients can reverse the plaque buildup and reduce the risk of cardiovascular events to essentially zero. The test costs around $250 and is also not covered by insurance.

The Big C, unfortunately, is often identified too late to be eradicated, at a period more specifically referred to as stage 4. According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 600,000 people died from cancer last year in the U.S. The deadliest cancers — pancreatic, ovarian, liver, and lung — are often symptomless prior to end-stage disease.

At the end of 2021, Grail, a California health care company, announced the blockbuster news of its newly developed Galleri multicancer early detection test.

With a simple blood draw, it has the capability to detect more than 50 types of cancer, including esophageal, pancreatic, gall bladder, and ovarian. Also effective in determining the cancer’s exact location within the body, this high-sensitivity test allows for the diagnosis of the deadliest cancers at stage 1, when treatment is still possible. Known as a liquid biopsy, the test utilizes methylation tags that discern genetic differences between normal cells and cancerous ones. It has a high negative predictive value, returning negative results with 95 percent accuracy. Patients should inquire whether their doctor provides this groundbreaking screening, which requires prescription by a licensed health care professional. Physicians can acquire the Galleri test kit directly from the company.

It is not covered by insurance and costs about $950, depending on the provider.

The call to action is for us all to be aware of the available early screening options, ally with doctors who specialize in prevention, and become consumers of health care, rather than passive patients.

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Pressing the Flesh How medicine’s aggressive push toward breastfeeding is harming families

BY STEVE FRIESS

AT FIRST, IT STRUCK ME AS FUNNY. Our doctor’s office always

provides some age-appropriate parenting health information along with the after-visit report for our kids’ appointments, and my daughter’s 2-month-old checkup was no exception. This time, though, mingled among the most rudimentary, uncontroversial advice — Talk to your baby! Use a car seat! Don’t smoke! — was a section about the paramount importance of breastfeeding. As with most heteronormative things that come my way as a gay dad, I smirked and tried to shrug it off.

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everyone — and that it is a symptom of a trend in neonatal pediatrics that has gone way too far.

Here’s a shocker: Breastfeeding isn’t for everyone. It is not a universal truth that breastfeeding is always the best option or an irrefutably correct opinion — like, say, that you shouldn’t let a baby’s room get too warm — that it is better. And yet, since the advent of baby formula, there has never been a time when the pressure to breastfeed was more intense.

It starts within the hour of a birth and doesn’t let up for months thereafter. A nurse at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago encouraged my daughter’s birth mother to nurse the newborn because — move over blueberries, goji berries, and chia seeds — the first squirts of breast milk, known as colostrum, are the super-est of superfoods. If you buy the hype, and enough people do that there’s actually a market for goat milk colostrum, this stuff has Lewis Carroll-level magical qualities. Never mind that everyone at Rush maternity knew this child was being adopted; the idea of encouraging a woman who is placing her baby with another family to begin and then have to cease lactation is ridiculous — and cruel.

This push causes real damage to mothers and to families. My niece, Arielle Zellis-Paley, had a baby boy in 2019, two weeks after the birth of my son. About a year later, she opened up in great detail for The Layers Project Magazine, an online journal for Jewish women, about how her struggle to nurse exacerbated postpartum depression the rest of the family didn’t even know she was dealing with.

Arielle wrote, “I had a low supply of breast milk, and I was trying around the clock to nurse, pump, nurse, and pump.

The pressure was on. YOU NEED TO GIVE YOUR BABY YOUR LIQUID GOLD. The nurses had yelled at me day one postpartum, and they grabbed my breast and shoved it into Nafshi’s mouth. I was sobbing. It really hurt and I felt like a failure already.”

Yes, researchers have identified some health benefits of breast milk for babies — lower incidence of allergies and asthma, antibodies that can fight viruses and bacteria, less constipation — and those upsides deserve to be considered. But the data on this lacks context; the vast

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majority of people actually don’t have asthma or allergies, for example, and that means most kids do fine with or without breast milk.

But the emotional damage to mothers who cannot nurse — including nonbiological moms via adoption, surrogacy, or same-sex co-parenting, as well as women who have undergone mastectomies and women, like my niece, whose bodies don’t cooperate — is rarely weighed in the too-cutesy axiom that actually is the World Health Organization’s motto on breastfeeding, “Breast is best.” There’s also a World Breastfeeding Week (first week of August, for no apparent reason) and a recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatrics to exclusively breastfeed for a baby’s first six months.

This is not to say pediatricians and health care providers should stop encouraging women to nurse if they can and if they want to do so — although it might help women relax and learn how from lactation experts if they’re not also being told that they’re bad mothers if they end up unable to. As an economic matter alone, I know from ongoing experience how great it would be to have a “free” food supply for our children; for families who cannot afford formula, then, nursing provides relief from financial stress that can also be emotionally taxing.

There are, however, better ways to strike these balances.

Grabbing a breast and shoving it into an infant’s mouth while a mom screams in pain is not one of those. Blanketing all parents, regardless of circumstance, with edicts that suggest

Here’s a shocker: Breastfeeding isn’t for everyone. It is not a universal truth that nursing is always the best option.

nursing is as fundamental to child-rearing as holding your baby is offensive and unproductive.

As it happens, Michigan Medicine says the fact that only breastfeeding information was included in the 2-month after-visit handout was a mistake. The handouts given at less-than-1-month and 4-month visits “balance content for both breastfeeding and formula feeding,” writes Dr. Jill Noble, lead of the division of general pediatrics at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, via email.

And Dr. Rosalyn Elizabeth MabenFeaster, a Michigan Medicine OB-GYN whom the press office made available to me for an interview, went to great lengths to agree with pretty much everything I said about the matter. “I have many patients who have had struggles with breastfeeding — I 100-percent have seen what your niece mentioned in terms of that exacerbating both their anxiety and their depression, and I myself had issues with breastfeeding my first baby,” Maben-Feaster says. After then reciting the science about the benefits of nursing, she went back to empathizing. “I do agree that we have a ways to go to think about how we can be more inclusive about the materials that we provide to patients and our sensitivity.”

Good. Still, I question the inclusion of this sensitive information at all in such a general manner. Presumably, the parents and child had just had an in-person visit with their doctor. That doctor would seem to be the one to scope out what the feeding and family-structure situation is and express concerns or offer advice.

If a baby is thriving and hitting all the milestones, there should be no need to lecture anyone about nourishment, right?

And if there’s a handout to be provided, the doctor can make that decision on an individual basis.

Obviously, it’s a bit silly to present this material to gay dads with no lactating breasts to offer. And most gay men understand that this kind of material exists to accommodate the most common circumstances. That’s fine. But it’s cruel to foist such information on all women with babies. There is no one-size-fits-all, except for this: Parents who cannot or choose not to nurse deserve the exact same level of respect as those who can and do.

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Bria Myers drew upon her experiences to craft her skin care brand.

Comfortable in Her Own Skin A local health care worker created an allnatural skin care brand suitable for herself and, hopefully, many others

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CHRONIC SKIN CONDITIONS can be confusing, costly to treat, and shameful to talk about. Bria Myers knows all about this. The 25-year-old was diagnosed with eczema at a young age and with hidradenitis suppurativa, or HS — a condition that causes painful boils in areas where skin rubs together — a couple of years ago.

Myers — who works as a research recruitment coordinator, with a focus on maternal and child eczema, allergies, and asthma, for Henry Ford Health System — found it difficult to get her hands on products that didn’t cause irritation and kept her skin moisturized. She learned from friends, family, and folks on social media that she wasn’t the only one struggling to find good products.

They mentioned “how their skin is so dry and they use what’s on the market because

that’s what’s there. So, I decided to make my own stuff.”

In November 2021, she launched Sassy Girl Skin Co. She started with two products: the Body Soufflé, a whipped body butter, and the Soufflé Stick, body butter poured into a push-up tube, making it ideal for on-the-go hydration.

Myers crafts her products from her Novi home. They’re made with shea butter, an ingredient that boasts anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties and aids in treating eczema, scars, and dry skin; kukui nut oil, another ingredient that is anti-inflammatory and rich in antioxidants, as well as hydrating; vitamin E oil; and natural fragrances.

When finalizing her ingredients, Myers researched brands offering products like the items she had in mind for her own line. She knew she didn’t want to load her products with a ton of ingredients but instead find a few key ones with many benefits. She tested her products on herself as well as on some friends and family; once Myers knew they were safe to use, she was ready to launch.

The Southfield native says her products treat her own eczema and dry skin, and work best for others with sensitive or dry skin, “but anyone can use them.”

Myers has been candid on social media about her skin struggles. She’s shared everything, from medications, dietary changes, and triggers (latex and perfumed lotions and shower gels for her eczema; dairy for her HS) to even photos of her breakouts.

Through her online presence, she’s discovered a community of people, especially fellow Black women, who experience similar issues.

“My dermatologist said that there wasn’t a lot of information on HS,” Myers says.

This is due, in part, to its rarity — fewer than 200,000 people in the U.S. have HS, compared to the 31.6 million people who have some form of eczema.

In the end, it’s all about determining what’s best for your skin. And, as Myers shares on her brand’s website: Your skin isn’t stubborn — it’s sassy. It has “a big personality and needs extra love and care, in order to thrive!”

“If you’re struggling with eczema, try making as many parts of your life natural as possible, whether it’s what you eat or what you put on your body,” Myers says. “If you have HS, I give the same advice: Try to figure out what exactly is causing it, if your doctor doesn’t know. And for dry skin, you can use Sassy Girl.”

Find Sassy Girl Skin Co. products at sassygirlskin.com.

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Mental health professionals who work with children and teens have a disturbing message for society at large: Our kids are not alright.

Last October, the Association of American Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Children’s Hospital Association took the extraordinary step of jointly declaring a national emergency in children’s mental health. In making the declaration, the organizations cited the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic — physical and social isolation, uncertainty, fear, loss, grief.

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2020, emergency department visits for mental health emergencies rose by 24 percent among children ages 5 to 11 and 31 percent for children ages 12 to 17. Emergency department visits for suspected suicide attempts, meanwhile, spiked by nearly 51 percent among girls ages 12 to 17 in early 2021 compared with the same period in 2019.

Yet to be fully measured is the psychological impact on children who have lost caregivers to COVID. At the time of the physicians’ emergency declaration, available data showed that more than 140,000 U.S. children had lost a primary or secondary caregiver, with children of color affected disproportionately. Those numbers continue to climb.

“We are caring for young people with soaring rates of depression, anxiety, trauma, loneliness, and suicidality that will have lasting impacts on them, their families, their communities, and all of our futures,” then AACAP President Gabrielle A. Carlson said in a statement announcing the declaration.

But while the pandemic may have ignited an acute mental health crisis, many underlying causes of this epidemic of childhood stress, anxiety, and suicidality are chronic. They predate COVID-19 and will persist after we return to something resembling pre-pandemic normalcy. The pandemic merely poured gasoline on a fire that had been worrying pediatric and adolescent mental health professionals for at least a decade before the arrival of COVID-19.

Here again, the numbers are dire.

From 2007 to 2017, the share of kids ages 12 to 17 who had experienced a major depressive episode in the previous year jumped from 8 to 13 percent, according to a 2019 Pew Research Center study. That means the number of severely depressed teens in the U.S. rose from 2 million to 3.2 million over a single decade.

Even more worrisome: Suicides among 10-to-24-year-olds rose by 56 percent over that same period, according to a 2019 CDC analysis. For the first time, suicide overtook homicide as the second leading cause of death for that age group, behind accidents.

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“And the scary part,” says child and adolescent psychologist Kelly Melistas, program coordinator of the Pediatric Behavioral Health Integrated Care Program of Henry Ford Health System, “is we were seeing [anxiety] affect kids younger and younger. It wasn’t just the middle school kids and high school kids that were coming in. We were seeing 5and 6-year-olds with fears and anxieties and worries.”

Left unaddressed, those worries can lead to severe depression and suicidality, she says. In fact, a 2019 study published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics found that emergency room visits for suicide attempts and suicidal ideation in kids ages 5 to 11 rose from 580,000 in 2007 to 1.1 million in 2015.

Understanding both the scope and the causes of this mental health crisis is essential to finding solutions, but explanations remain largely speculative.

They range from the increasing use of digital media and exposure to cyberbullying to relentless pressure to excel to generalized worries about — among other things — deadly school violence, the toxic state of the country’s politics, racial divisions, and environmental disasters.

Educators and mental health professionals consulted for this article concur that while these systemic causes will be challenging to resolve, there’s a lot parents can do to ease the impact on their own children. The first step is taking a hard look at some of the most likely culprits.

‘This Disconnected Feeling’ It’s tempting to blame the alarming rise in childhood mental health struggles on the evils of social media, especially since it coincided with increased use of digital devices by kids. But damning social media with too broad a brush misses important nuances about how an

increasingly virtual life — not just social media, but virtual classrooms and online gaming as well — is affecting kids.

According to Melistas, kids are having to navigate this complex and confusing digital space long before their brains are equipped to handle its challenges.

The frontal cortex — home to executive functioning skills such as planning, judgment, and emotional regulation — doesn’t fully develop until the mid20s. Kids are being flooded not just with potentially toxic online feedback but also with frightening news and information that’s well beyond their brains’ processing capacity, leaving some of them confused and anxious.

“They are so much more inundated with that information, be it from their phones, their peers, their peers’ access to technology — because your kid might not have access to a phone at 8, like mine, but they have peers who have it, and then the peers talk. It’s just this inundation with media in general,” Melistas says.

Joe Amabile, a 20-year veteran Michigan high school math teacher who now coaches fellow teachers in Oakland County, has paid close attention to alarming changes he’s observed in students’ mental health over the past decade or so. He worries that the time kids spend online has altered how they form their sense of self, replacing traditional real-world sources of feedback — family, teachers, schoolmates — with an amorphous, anonymous, and often unkind virtualworld feedback loop. We wonder how a kid could threaten a school on social media, Amabile says. But if an isolated kid finds that making such threats elicits a lot of social media attention, it’s easy to

see how it might become more tempting.

Even before the pandemic forced kids into physical isolation, children were experiencing troubling rates of social isolation, says Paul Liabenow, executive director of the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association.

Liabenow has been working with the University of Michigan and other organizations to develop educational approaches and school-based programs aimed at curbing childhood depression and suicide by building social-emotional skills and fostering resilience.

“There are many theories about what’s going on, but I personally believe it was about isolation and it continues to be about isolation,” Liabenow says. “The access that kids do have to others is via the internet, the web — everything from TikTok to Instagram. And a lot of the communication is … well, it is not always positive, let’s say. It’s easier to bully someone when they’re 100 miles away — even your peers, when you may or may not see them for two or three months at a time.”

Liabenow cites a promising pilot program he helped develop in Niles, Michigan, that’s demonstrating the efficacy of connecting meaningfully with isolated kids. It’s called Class Catalyst.

Through it, middle school students spend about 90 seconds each morning checking in virtually with their classroom teacher to report on their readiness to learn. It’s a chance for them to tell their teacher privately if they’ve had a bad experience at home or are struggling in some other way, positioning teachers to get kids help before they slide into depression or self-harm.

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with their hoodies over their heads, are now engaging with the classroom teacher because they’ve found that they can share privately and they’ve found an adult who is trustworthy,” Liabenow says. “It’s been remarkably successful.”

Under Pressure

admits, “On Monday I do nothing because my brother has piano, and so I get like an hour by myself.” That prompts an envious classmate to tease, “Lucky!”

The scene captures with humor the very serious message of the film: Childhood has changed — and not for the better.

Modern American childhood bears little resemblance to the childhoods most of today’s parents enjoyed themselves. It’s a

lovingly constructed childhood in which unstructured, unsupervised, and possibly even — heaven forbid — mildly dangerous play has been replaced with safe, scheduled, supervised activities arranged for the child’s enrichment, in many cases with an eye toward the ultimate goal of admission to a “good school.”

The result, the film argues, is that over-parented, over-protected, over-

There’s a cute, if slyly biting, scene in the 2020 documentary Chasing Childhood that may hit uncomfortably close to home for many of today’s parents. In it, writer and free-range childhood advocate Lenore Skenazy, who caused a stir in 2008 with a New York Sun column explaining why she’d allowed her 9-yearold boy to ride the subway alone, sits at a table of middle school kids and poses a simple question: “How many of you come home from school, eat a snack, and run outside and play?”

From the incredulous looks on their faces, you might think she’d asked, “How many of you have ever walked on the moon?”

The kids take turns explaining that they don’t have time to play because they’re far too busy with after-school activities — hiphop dance class, filmmaking, acting, STEM design, stopmotion animation. Upon further consideration, one girl

What Parents and Guardians Can Do Parents who are alarmed by reports of a nationwide spike in childhood anxiety, depression, and suicidality can take heart in this: While there may be little you can do to reverse the overall trend on your own, there is plenty you can do bolster your own kids’ mental health. Experts offer the following guidance for combatting some common causes of childhood stress.

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AND TALK SOME MORE

Perhaps the most important anti-anxiety tool in the parental tool kit is simply talking. Talking with kids meaningfully — and often — helps to establish a sense of security that

can be a powerful antidote to anxietyprovoking uncertainty.

Making time each day for genuine, age-appropriate conversation not only reassures kids in the moment but also increases the likelihood that those kids will feel safe turning to

you if they someday find themselves truly struggling. Kelly Melistas, program coordinator for the Pediatric Behavioral Health Integrated Care Program of the Henry Ford Health System, suggests starting a daily “Best Thing/ Worst Thing” practice

that takes place at mealtime, bedtime, or some other consistent point in your kid’s routine. Ask your child to share a good moment and a bad moment from their day — and share your own in return. It’s a simple ritual with the ability to yield powerful results.

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And remind them about the unique risks of digital life, such as the danger of sharing personal or intimate information, which can have long-term ramifications. This is not a place to be hands off, Liabenow cautions. His advice for parents who may be unsure how to get into their kids’ digital business: “Basically, parent them. Parent them the same as you would in the rest of their lives.”

scheduled, and highly monitored kids feel tremendous pressure to meet expectations, often at the expense of their mental and emotional well-being.

That analysis rings true for Amabile.

“I would say most of the mental stress is from perfectionism,” he says of kids he’s taught. “Holy cow — the number of kids in a high-level math class that I’m teaching where their parents are pushing them, pushing them, pushing them to be these perfect, perfect kids. That’s a huge stress.”

And all that pressure to keep up and measure up — compounded by the everyday pressures of hectic family lives and, more recently, pandemic-related trauma — is just too much for some kids to handle.

“A lot of what we see with kids is this anxiety, this worry about ‘Am I good enough? What if I don’t do this?’ That sort of perfectionistic kind of needing to be the best,” Melistas says. “And that stems from a number of places. It stems from their peers. And it stems from us as parents, to some extent, and what our expectations are.”

That extent may be greater than many parents would like to admit.

Julie Lythcott-Haims, former dean of freshmen at Stanford University and author of How to Raise an Adult, puts it plainly in Chasing Childhood: “I think, in some ways, we’ve mortgaged our kids’ childhood in exchange for the chance that they will have the grand future we have in mind for them. But when you mortgage your kid’s childhood, it’s a debt that can never be repaid.”

WELCOME TO THEIR WORLD

Like it or not, much of our kids’ lives now takes place in the opaque and, for many parents, baffling digital realm. That doesn’t have to be a bad thing, but it does create new mental health risks that parents must

take into account. Paul Liabenow, executive director of the Michigan Elementary and Middle School Principals Association, who has made ending childhood suicide his personal mission, urges parents to take kids’ online lives just as seriously as their

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IRL interactions.

Make talking about your kids’ online relationships a part of your daily routine.

Ask what they do online, who they are interacting with, who their digital friends are, and whether anything or anyone is making them uncomfortable.

Kids absorb information from all around them — TV, smart speakers, classmates, our own conversations — and most of it is grim: the pandemic, political divisions, racial tensions, environmental crises, and now the horrors of war in Europe.

Much of this is well beyond kids’ capacity to understand, and if they are bombarded with it without guidance, it can easily provoke worry, fear, and anxiety. “One way to help kids is simple,” Melistas says. “Stop playing the news in the background!”

Shielding kids from news entirely isn’t the goal, but being mindful of what they are hearing — and how they are hearing it — offers a chance for conversations that can help kids digest frightening information in a healthy way. “Think about their age and development as well as their communication style,” Melistas says. “Not every child processes information the same way. Follow their lead. If they aren’t too bothered by a certain topic, don’t push it. Answer their questions honestly

and concisely. Help calm their fears, but only provide information they need.

And if you don’t know what to say, be honest and let them know you will find out more information and get back to them.”

CONSISTENCY IS KEY

Establishing good, healthy routines — which include healthy meals, good sleep routines, spending time together away from devices and distractions, exercise, even just getting outside for some fresh air as you walk to the end of the driveway — is enough to decrease stress significantly, Melistas says. What’s equally important to understand, she says, is that creating routines doesn’t have to be a major undertaking, yet another task on an endless to-do list.

Even the simplest of daily routines — a five-minute “Best Thing/Worst Thing” chat, a few minutes spent together at bedtime, a daily phone call home from work — can create a sense of consistency that eases anxiety.

CONSIDER CHILLING OUT

The 2020 documentary Chasing Childhood makes a compelling case that much of the stress and anxiety kids are dealing with stems from the nature of modern childhood itself, in which many kids have little time for healthy, freerange, unstructured exploration and play (think about how you likely were free to roam your neighborhood for hours on end as a kid).

Many communities, including several here in Michigan,

have scheduled screenings of the film as a way to spark conversation about modern parenting and the need to, just maybe, loosen up and let kids be kids. To schedule a screening or arrange for a guest speaker, check out chasingchildhood oc.com.

GET HELP

While most kids are likely to experience some degree of anxiety and worry and be just fine, it’s important to keep an eye out for signs that your kid might be struggling. Abrupt changes in attitude or sleep, loss of appetite, abandonment of activities that once were sources of joy, withdrawal from family life — these can be signs that your child is struggling with something worse than transitory anxiety. It’s time to reach out for help from a physician or counselor (ask your child’s pediatrician for a list of mental health providers in your area).

A wonderful local resource is Common Ground, which offers in-person services, support groups, and more to youths, adults, and families in crisis throughout southeastern Michigan. The organization’s resource and crisis hotline can be reached 24/7 by calling or texting 1-800-2311127. An online chat is also available at commonground helps.org.

If you are worried that your child might be at serious risk of selfharm, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273TALK (8255).

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Kris Draper teams up with pal Tom Lin, for a game of doubles.

t’s shortly after 11 a.m. on a Thursday in West Bloomfield, and Kris Draper is in a heated argument. Much like during his playing days, the former Red Wing and four-time Stanley Cup champion is disputing a call with conviction. Unlike in his 20-year hockey career, the argument ends with Draper and his opponent sharing a handshake embrace, acknowledging that the debate was just for laughs.

They’ve just finished a rousing game of pickleball.

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seasons with the Red Wings. “Everyone has their moments, good and bad, but it’s a really good game. Just a lot of fun.”

For the uninitiated, pickleball is more or less a combination of tennis, badminton, and ping pong. It’s typically played on a court that’s 20 by 44 feet, with a net that’s 3 feet high at the ends and 34 inches in the middle. While the size of the paddle resembles that of a tennis racket, it takes on the shape, feel, and touch of a ping pong paddle. It’s played with a plastic Wiffle ball, neon green. It is also the fastest-growing sport in the U.S. After his faux confrontation, Draper works his way back toward the gym bag sitting

courtside and starts packing up his gear. Thus concludes one of the high points (maybe the high point) of his day. “You get great exercise, meet so many good people, and you get to compete,” says Draper, who lives in Oakland County. “I’ll be honest — after I retired, I missed that, having the ability to go out and play, go out and compete.”

From a career perspective, Draper is still all in on the game of hockey. The Toronto native was promoted to Red Wings director of amateur scouting in 2019 and is constantly touring the globe in search of the world’s best hockey prospects, on behalf of the team he once served as an assistant captain.

In his first draft in the new role, he

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WHAT IS IT? Pickleball is a rapidly growing sport that combines the rules of tennis and ping pong and is played on a court that’s nearly identical to a badminton court.

Games can be played with singles or doubles; each version comes with its own set of dimensions, similar to those seen on a tennis court.

The sport is typically played on converted tennis courts, either indoor or outdoor, but wood-floor gymnasiums are most common among older crowds.

WHO INVENTED IT, AND WHY IS IT CALLED PICKLEBALL? The game was invented in 1965,

by U.S. politician Joel Pritchard, who wanted to play badminton but didn’t have a shuttlecock on-hand. He instead used a Wiffle ball, and the rest is

even had the chance to select his own son, Kienan Draper — a University of Michigan commit — as the Red Wings’ seventhround pick.

But up until 2020, nothing gave him “that adrenaline rush” like stepping onto the ice once had. That changed when former Wings teammate Dan Cleary invited him and Shawn Horcoff (Cleary serves as Red Wings assistant director of player development; Horcoff was recently promoted to assistant general manager for the team) out to a game organized by Dee Geelhood of The Sports Club of West Bloomfield.

Geelhood had taught tennis lessons for 30 years but gave it up to be the club’s

history. Pritchard’s resourcefulness led to his wife, Joan, calling the sport pickleball, because it reminded her of a “pickle boat.”

The rowing term refers to the craft that finishes last in a race, often as a result of being manned by a crew of leftover oarsmen.

WHY IS IT POPULAR NOW?

Partially, it’s a matter of being in the right place at the right time, but the popularity of the sport has been on the rise for nearly a decade.

USA Pickleball’s data shows that participation increased by 650 percent, year over year, from 2014 to 2019. The sport grew another 21.3 percent, to 4.2 million players, in 2020, according to the Sports & Fitness Industry Association's 2021 Topline Participation Report.

accountant — so she could have time to play more pickleball.

“I can tell you that people stick with pickleball,” Geelhood says. “People are not moving on. They start it, and not only do they stay with it, they get addicted to it.”

Despite being skeptical about the name “pickleball,” Draper gave it a go, and as it turns out, Geelhood was right. “When I heard it, I was just like, ‘Really?’” Draper says. “When you tell somebody that you play pickleball, unless they play it, that’s the reaction they have. … Next thing you know, we’re major addicts.”

WHO PLAYS IT? Pickleball is for players of all ages, and athleticism is not required to have fun.

Like ping pong, it can be played by anybody, whereas tennis requires a higher level of skill from the beginning. It’s traditionally seen as a game for the older crowd, but that’s starting to change.

USA Pickleball’s data shows that a majority of pickleball’s core players (those who play eight times a year or more) are 55 and older — which explains why the South Atlantic is where the game is most popular — but from 2016 to 2020, the largest part (33.9 percent) of the game’s casual players were those between the ages of 18 and 34.

WHERE CAN I PLAY? There are a number of sports clubs and recreation centers that offer pickleball, and new courts are popping up everywhere, as many towns and cities incorporate them into their outdoor parks. Clubs that traditionally focus on tennis are now also home to pickleball courts, with some even beginning to offer leagues and clinics. A quick internet search should yield a local facility, such as the ones at 11 MileHuntington Park in

Huntington Woods, Vreeland Park in Riverview, and Neil Reid Park in Clinton Township.

WHAT EQUIPMENT DO I NEED?

All you need is a ball and a paddle.

The paddle is made of composite and resembles that used in ping pong, but with a padded, stumpy handle, about 4 or 5 inches long, and a head that takes on a rounded rectangle shape. Those looking to get involved on a budget can pick up equipment at a local shopping supercenter; some brands even offer kits containing two paddles and multiple balls, so getting started is a breeze.

HOW CAN I GET BETTER?

Practice! Well, and by watching, consuming, and studying pickleball — just like for anything else. Kris Draper even follows a number of pickleballfocused Instagram accounts that dole out tips and tricks.

Of course, if you’re really serious about it, you can find private lessons and clinics at local racquet and pickleball clubs. Who knows? You might be a senior pro before you know it.

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Draper now tries to play pickleball every day he’s in town. He has a wife, Julie, and two daughters, Kennedi and Kamryn, as well as his son, Kienan. For two decades, they’d ask, “Dad, how was hockey?” Now, he gets “Dad, how was pickleball?” (Draper admits that the latter doesn’t pay nearly as well.)

He even took his equipment with him to the 2021 Ice Hockey U18 World Championships, in Texas, and had a routine with fellow NHL executives Jarmo Kekäläinen, Scott Mellanby, and Marty Lapointe: “Wake up, go play pickleball, go to the tournament.”

They’re not alone in their infatuation.

By 2019, pickleball had seen a 650 percent increase in participation, over the previous

shelf” this summer, he won’t necessarily have the option of picking up tennis, which entails more running around and necessitates power, or a game like squash, whose violent stops, starts, and swings do a number on the joints.

“Given the amount of torque and pounding your body takes [in other racket sports], for me — not being as healthy, with my knee and back — pickleball allowed me to be competitive,” Cleary says.

What Cleary and Draper love about pickleball is something that adults tend to forget: Competition is one of the best motivations to exercise.

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Dee Geelhood and partner Jason Parr (far left) take on Kris Draper and Tom Lin at The Sports Club of West Bloomfield.

six years (per USA Pickleball), and then exploded another 21.3 percent, to 4.2 million players, around the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Sports & Fitness Industry Association’s 2021 Topline Participation Report.

It was an alternative to tennis — one of the few activities that could be played outside and allowed for social distancing — that is much easier to get the hang of, which also increases the likelihood that people who try pickleball will keep playing it.

“That’s kind of what I enjoyed about pickleball — all you gotta do is return it,” Cleary says. “Not to sound rude, but older people can kick your ass at this sport, if you’re not any good. It just goes to show you, it’s a sport for all ages, and once you learn the sport, learn the angles, that’s how you get good at it.”

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Network’s array of cooking competitions, picked up the sport three years ago. He’s already a senior pro and has become a regular participant in Geelhood’s games with the Wings executives.

When Lin realized inflammation was limiting his ability to move around the court, he cut sugar out of his diet. “After I picked up this game, I started to focus on my fitness; I started eating right,” Lin says.

“Anybody can do it. I dropped 12 pounds this year, because of pickleball. … This is the first time I’ve felt good. I feel much healthier, and that’s just a great feeling.”

Starting a gym kick in the middle of a pandemic can be a drag, and to Lin’s point, eating healthier without exercising is usually a surefire way to let old habits resurface.

Pickleballguide.net estimates that a person can burn 500-700 calories in a single hour of play — and that’s part of what’s kept people coming back.

“It’s like when Pac-Man Fever first came

out, you know? That was a craze,” says Jason Parr, a longtime pickleball enthusiast who has helped along the celebrity pickleball crew.

Parr’s brand, Dinktroit (a “dink” is a type of pickleball shot), offers clothing through Kid Rock’s Made in Detroit line, which makes it no surprise that Kid Rock loves the sport too.

A Draper-Kid Rock match is “gonna happen,” says the former, once he’s developed a technique better suited for singles. In the meantime, the pair are members of the group of influential people who are helping to push this game into the mainstream. Another is Tom Dundon, owner of the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes and the popular sports entertainment company Topgolf, who purchased the Professional Pickleball Association in January of this year and is adapting the Topgolf format to develop a simlar apparatus for pickleball. The sport is now broadcast on ESPN. And Draper himself graced the cover of Pickleball Magazine in December 2021.

If you search “pickleball” on the internet, there’s a good chance you’ll find that a court has recently opened near you. With all this momentum, Parr envisions seeing Dinktroit apparel on the racks at sporting goods chains around the country, the sign of a growing industry at large.

“That’s going to drive more people [to the sport],” Parr says. “I mean, you’re seeing pickleball paddles at Meijer now. … It went from ‘What is that?’ to ‘No, we’re getting it.

We’re going to add it.’”

You probably won’t find Draper shopping for paddles at the grocery store, as he finds this endeavor to be quite a serious one. He hopes to compete in tournaments someday and never wants to be teammates with the best player. His sessions on the court are as much about “going to practice” as they are “going to exercise.”

That’s the main reason this group gets along so well: They all care about getting better. They study the top tournament matches, watch YouTube lessons, do their best to learn from the pros.

But when you boil it down, what they enjoy most is the chance to have fun while exercising, master a craft, and talk a little smack about things that don’t really matter.

“I won’t let Kris Draper get to my head,” Lin says. “He tried to intimidate me, threaten me — no. No way. I will not let him get into my head.

“You can write that down.”

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We’ve followed up with lists of Top Chiropractors and Top Dentists. Why? We’re hard-pressed to find anyone who isn’t concerned with either staying or getting healthy. Our healthcare providers in southeast Michigan are hugely important in that endeavor, and it’s only natural to want to know that these professionals who touch our lives so personally are the best at what they do.

With that comes the most common question about these lists: How do we determine who’s “top”? Most notably, winning physicians are nominated and voted on exclusively by their peers — the M.D.s and D.O.s who are the most qualified to judge who among them are the best at what they do. There is a similar process for the Top Dentists and Top Chiropractors lists.

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Disclaimer: The doctors in the Top Doctors list were selected by Professional Research Services (PRS), which conducted an online peer-review survey of area physicians in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Washtenaw, and Livingston counties. Physicians were asked to nominated fellow physicians they deemed the best in their field of practice. Many votes were cast honoring excellence in all fields of medicine. The featured doctors were screened and selected through the verification of licensing and review of any infractions through applicable boards, agencies, and rating services. For additional information, visit prscom.com. Hour Detroit was not involved in the selection process.

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ALLERGIES & IMMUNE DISORDERS – PEDIATRIC

Winning doctors in adult and pediatric specialties, as voted on by their peers. Top vote-getters are denoted with an asterisk (*). In some categories, there are ties.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

ADDICTION MEDICINE

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

* Aharonov, Julia, D.O.

Doshi, Devang, M.D.

Bahrainwala, Abdul, M.D. Bathija, Malathi, M.D.

Beaumont

Beaumont

Aljassem, Annas, M.D.

Kado, Rachel, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Henry Ford Health

Berland, Daniel, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S., Mott Children’s Hospital

Bulat, Elizabeth, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Christensen, Carl, M.D, P.hD

Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Leo, Harvey, M.D.

Marks, Amy, D.O.

Beaumont

Nageotte, Christian, M.D.

Henry Ford Health, St. Joseph Mercy

Patel, Pulin, D.O.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health, McLaren Health Care

Fox, Michael, D.O.

Poowuttikul, Pavadee, M.D.

Coffman, Eric, D.O.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Hopper, John, M.D. St. Joseph Mercy

King, Andrew, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center

Saad, Abdulhassan, M.D.

Kasmikha, Nena, M.D.

Yeldo, Nicholas, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Krasnick, Jane, M.D.

ANESTHESIOLOGY – PEDIATRIC

Lauter, Carl, M.D.

Aslani, Kaveh, M.D.

Nageotte, Christian, M.D.

Choromanski, Dominik, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Beaumont

Henry Ford Health, St. Joseph Mercy

Patel, Bhavin, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health, McLaren, St. Joseph Mercy

Patel, Pulin, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health, McLaren Health Care

Savliwala, Mohammedi, M.D. Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Schoeps, Peter, D.O.

Seth, Divya, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Forrest, Maria, M.D. Han, Richard, M.D. * Smith, Christopher, M.D.

Tawila, Mohamad, M.D.

Snell, Jamey, M.D.

Beaumont

Zoratti, Edward, M.D.

ALZHEIMER’S

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Durgham, Nasser, M.D.

* Stryk, Steven, M.D.

Salazar, Reina, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Henry Ford Health

Secord, Elizabeth, M.D.

Beaumont

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health, Michigan Medicine

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

* Novikova, Marina, D.O.

Henry Ford Health

ANESTHESIOLOGY Arbit, Philip, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Zestos, Maria, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

BARIATRIC SURGERY Bacal, Daniel, M.D. Beaumont

Armstrong-Browder, Lavonda, M.D.

Carlin, Arthur, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

* Bernard, Michael, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY

Chhina, Anoop, M.D.

Weiner, Mark, M.D. St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, McLaren Health Care

ADOLESCENT MEDICINE – PEDIATRIC

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Alton, Karen, M.D.

Bahrainwala, Abdul, M.D.

Beaumont

Smith, Joshua, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Vervaeke, Rudy, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

* Stryk, Steven, M.D.

Abraham, Tina, D.O.

Appleyard, Jennifer, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Backos, Alcesa, M.D.

Bassirpour, Gillian, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

* Forman, Seth, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Bathija, Malathi, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Henry Ford Health

* Genaw, Jeffrey, M.D. Hawasli, Abdelkader, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan

Galusca, Dragos, M.D.

Katz, Gary, D.O.

Grossi, Alexander, M.D. Guruswamy, Jayakar,M.D.

Beaumont

Henry Ford Health

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan

Krause, Kevin, M.D. Laker, Scott, M.D.

Heskett, Luke, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Lewis, Michael, M.D.

Mavashev, Edward, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Magidenko, Roman, M.D. Beaumont

Ascension Michigan

Gendelman, Brian, M.D.

Daher, Roula, M.D.

Neff, Kevin, M.D.

Patel, Puraj, D.O.

Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Marshall, Sharon, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Taylor, Jaime, D.O. Beaumont

Beaumont

Dass, Kathleen, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Doshi, Devang, M.D.

Beaumont

Kado, Rachel, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, McLaren Health Care

Osta, Walid, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Meguid, Ahmed, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Pesta, Carl, D.O.

McLaren Health Care

Sousa, Nicholas, D.O.

Shalhoub, Alexander, D.O.

Ascension Michigan

Szymanski, Trevor, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, St. Joseph Mercy

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center Henry Ford Health

Varban, Oliver, M.D.

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Webber, John, M.D.

Nathanson, S., M.D.

* Gowman, David, D.O.

Timmis, Steven, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont

Ziegler, Kathryn, M.D.

Petersen, Lindsay, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Greenberg, Eric, D.O. Ascension Michigan

Beaumont

Rizk, Natalie, M.D.

Halabi, Abdul, M.D.

Tucciarone, Michael, M.D.

Beaumont

BREAST SURGERY

Ascension Michigan

* Bensenhaver, Jessica, M.D.

Wesen, Cheryl, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Bland, Keiva, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Ascension Michigan

BURN TREATMENT

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Kado, Herman, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Kaki, Amir, M.D

Beaumont

Trivax, Justin, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Zarghami, Jamal, M.D. Ascension Michigan

Zweig, Bryan, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Cullen, Marc, M.D. Ascension Michigan

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Shanti, Christina, M.D.

Kim, Henry, M.D.

Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Wang, Stewart, M.D. Michigan Medicine

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Ascension Michigan

Costellic, Corinne, D.O.

* White, Michael, M.D.

Lingam, Natesh, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Brown, Eric, M.D.

Beaumont, Karmanos Cancer Center, Michigan Medicine

Choi, Lydia, M.D.

Beaumont

Dekhne, Nayana, M.D.

Beaumont

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Henry Ford Health

CARDIOLOGY Abdul-Malek, Michael, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Desai, Amita, M.D.

Abdul-Nour, Khaled, M.D.

Beaumont

Henry Ford Health

Falk, Jeffrey, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Johnson, Pamela, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Elder, Mahir, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Ascension Michigan

Mohamad, Tamam, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Henry Ford Health

David, Shukri, M.D.

Kuwajerwala, Nafisa, M.D.

Marcotte, Robert, D.O.

Asfour, Abedelrahim, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Kimball, Beth, M.D.

Beaumont

Henry Ford Health

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Kiran, Sayee, M.D.

Koneru, Srinivas, M.D.

Ananthasubramaniam, Karthikeyan, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center St. Joseph Mercy

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Feldman, Dustin, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

O’Neill, William, M.D. Rabbani, Bobak, M.D. Ravi, Srihari, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Saba, Souheil, M.D.

CARDIOLOGY – PEDIATRIC Anne, Premchand, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Covi, Stuart, M.D.

Cutler, Nancy, M.D.

* Forbes, Thomas, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Henry Ford Health, St. Joseph Mercy

Humes, Richard, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Henry Ford Health, St. Joseph Mercy

Ross, Robert, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, St. Joseph Mercy

Turner, Daniel, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Beaumont

Sobh, Mohamad, D.O.

CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Alnajjar, Raed, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Apostolou, Dimitrios, M.D.

Henry Ford Health, Detroit Medical Center

Baciewicz, Frank, Jr. , M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care, St. Joseph Mercy

Batra, Sanjay, M.D. Ascension Michigan

Lee, Michael, M.D. Ascension Michigan

* Nemeh, Hassan, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Pruitt, Andrew, M.D. St. Joseph Mercy

Schwartz, Charles, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Shannon, Francis, M.D.

Beaumont

Tanaka, Daizo, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

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CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY – PEDIATRIC * Ohye, Richard, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy

Romano, Jennifer, M.D.

Sacksner, Jordy, M.D. St. Joseph Mercy

Shellnut, Jason, M.D.

Tilford, Bradley, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Witkowski, Alina, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan

Stefanou, Amalia, M.D.

DERMATOLOGY

Szilagy, Eric, M.D.

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health, McLaren Health Care, St. Joseph Mercy

Henry Ford Health

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy

Henry Ford Health

Si, Ming-Sing, M.D.

Beaumont

Turfah, Fuad, M.D.

Abrou, A., M.D.

Altman, David, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Karimipour, Darius, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Kerwin, Leonard, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Kerwin, Ronald, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center

Kohen, Laurie, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy

Beaumont

CHILD ABUSE PEDIATRICIAN – PEDIATRIC

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan

Atanasovski, Mariana, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, McLaren, St. Joseph Mercy

Ball, Allison, M.D.

Ziegler, Matthew, M.D.

Balle, David, M.D.

Beaumont

* DeGraw, Marcus, M.D.

CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Berry, Ali, M.D.

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Michigan Medicine

Bichakjian, Christopher, M.D.

Lim, Henry, M.D.

Beaumont

Ascension Michigan

Nazer, Dena, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

COLON & RECTAL SURGERY Adeyemo, Adewunmi, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Alame, Amer, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Bark, Kenneth, M.D.

Beaumont

Bauman, John, M.D. Beaumont

Cleary, Robert, M.D.

St. Joseph Mercy

Wasvary, Harry, M.D. Webb, Shawn, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Allen, Samuel, D.O. Beaumont

* Galens, Stephen, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Kado, Jessica, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Henry Ford Health

Krach, Kent, M.D.

Legacy, Michelle, D.O. Levin, Emily, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Caretti, Katherine, M.D.

Mohammadi, Tarana, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Carter-Snell, Brittany, D.O.

Moiin, Ali, M.D.

Kinni, Vijaya, M.D.

Cetner, Leonard, M.D.

Beaumont

Gardner-Gray, Jayna, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Hurst, Gina, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Miles, Steven, M.D. Ascension Michigan

Pflaum-Carlson, Jacqueline, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Cukrowski, Tiffany, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, McLaren Health Care, St. Joseph Mercy

Daveluy, Steven, M.D.

Merkle, Suzanne, M.D.

Beaumont

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Ozog, David, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Price, Meredith, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

* Singer, Craig, M.D.

Soubani, Ayman, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Drelichman, Ernesto, M.D.

Tatem, Geneva, M.D.

Desai, Snehal, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

St. Joseph Mercy

Eggenberger, John, M.D.

CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE – PEDIATRIC

Diggs, Shauna, M.D.

Gerken, Jeffrey, D.O.

Cashen, Katherine, D.O.

* Damadi, Amir, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Glenn, Alexandria, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

* Clark, Jeff, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Ascension Michigan

Hain, Jon, M.D.

El-Wiher, Nidal, M.D.

Mosed-Vogel, Lynda, M.D.

Gebara, Bassam, M.D.

Beaumont

Beaumont

Beaumont

Beaumont

Nalamati, Surya, M.D.

Khandhar, Paras, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Peeples, Claire, M.D.

Beaumont

Mata, Angela, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan

Rebock, Michael, D.O.

Meert, Kathleen, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Reickert, Craig, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Sarnaik, Ajit, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Beaumont

Singer, Robert, M.D.

Sklar, Lindsay, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Beaumont

Dorman, Michael, M.D.

Beaumont

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Ernst, Alexander, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Ferrara, Richard, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Gildenberg, Stuart, M.D.

Spurlin, David, M.D. Stein Gold, Linda, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Watnick, Kay, M.D.

Beaumont

DERMATOLOGY – PEDIATRIC Jahnke, Marla, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Gottam, Chethana, M.D.

* Shwayder, Tor, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Hamzavi, Iltefat, M.D.

Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health, St. Joseph Mercy

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Zarbo, Allison, M.D.

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DEVELOPMENTALBEHAVIORAL PEDIATRICS * Felt, Barbara, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Hines, Stefani, M.D.

Folt, Jason, M.D.

Beaumont

Gardner-Gray, Jayna, M.D.

Bhan, Arti, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Goyal, Nikhil, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Lewandowski, Christopher, M.D.

Beaumont

Johnson, Tisa, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY Brown, Manuel, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Doshi, Shashin, M.D. Beaumont

Henry Ford Health

Gross, Martin, M.D.

Mendiratta-Lala, Mishal, M.D. Michigan Medicine

Metz, Terrence, M.D.

Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Myers, Daniel, M.D. Nandalur, Kiran, M.D. Beaumont

Ascension Michigan, Henry Ford Health

Takla, Robert, M.D.

Honasoge, Mahalakshmi, M.D.

* Rosenfeld, Sherri, D.O.

Ascension Michigan

St. Joseph Mercy

van Holsbeeck, Marnix, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Henry Ford Health

Krakauer, Jesse, M.D.

Beaumont

Vohra, Taher, M.D.

Lahiri, Sharon, M.D.

Beaumont

Gauger, Paul, M.D. Hughes, David, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, St, Joseph Mercy St. Joseph Mercy

Nagar, Sapna, M.D.

ENDOCRINOLOGY – PEDIATRIC * Bishop, Jacalyn, M.D.

Yusaf, Nadia, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Henry Ford Health

EMERGENCY – PEDIATRIC

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Levasseur, Kelly, D.O.

Degnan, Bernard, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Beaumont

Henry Ford Health

* Trivax, Cory, M.D.

Postula-Stein, Jason, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Beaumont

Singer, Michael, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Brennan, Michael, D.O.

Buggs-Saxton, Colleen, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Sills, Robert, D.O.

Dekelbab, M., M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Levy, Shiri, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Rao, Sudhaker, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

St. Joseph Mercy

Schmeltz, Lowell, M.D. Beaumont

Shill, Jessica, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Sanghvi, Prakash, M.D.

Beaumont

Stern, Sheldon, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Wayne, Michael, D.O.

Verma, Ashish, M.D.

Yalldo, Bashar, M.D.

GASTROENTEROLOGY Alsheik, Eva, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Arman, Mohammed, M.D.

Beaumont

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Azrak, M., M.D.

FAMILY MEDICINE

Bakken, Anezi, M.D.

Bloch, Nathan, D.O.

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Beaumont

Barawi, Mohammed, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Bryce, Richard, D.O.

Bhan, Amit, M.D.

Burgess, Jennifer, D.O.

Brown, Kimberly, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Henry Ford Health

Elder, Badrea, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Eldirani, Mike, M.D.

Emergency Medicine

Surhigh, Julie, M.D.

Erickson, Martin, D.O.

Taha, Doris, M.D.

Hollander, Gary, D.O.

Beaumont

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Henry Ford Health

Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Cannon, Michael, M.D.

Beaumont

Catanzaro, Andrew, M.D. St. Joseph Mercy

Gamarra, Roberto, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Detroit Medical Center

Endocrinology & Metabolism

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Donaldson, David, D.O.

Al-Kassab, Abdul, M.D., Ph.D. Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health, St. Joseph Mercy

Jackson, Paul, D.O.

Lazarczyk, Dariusz, M.D.

Ali, Sablaa, D.O.

Khaneja-Sharrow, Rita, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Dimitrijevski, Trifun, M.D.

Beaumont

* Edwards, Robert, M.D. Ascension Michigan

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Sanghvi, Kirti, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Gerrits, Peter, M.D.

Deledda, John, M.D.

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health, St. Joseph Mercy

Sanfield, Jeffrey, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

* Stankovic, Curt, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Provizer, Jeffrey, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Samantray, Julie, M.D., M.P.H.

Ascension Michigan

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Henry Ford Health

Edelson, Gary, M.D.

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Siegal, Daniel, M.D.

Perkins, Denise, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocco, Vito, M.D.

Kimball, Beth, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Blank, Howard, M.D.

Beaumont

Dawood-Farah, Farah, M.D.

* Czako, Peter, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Henry Ford Health

Mendiratta, Varsha, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

ENDOCRINE SURGERY

Kado, Karl, M.D.

Passerman, Daniel, D.O.

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont

Norwood, Earlexia, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Henry Ford Health

Vieder, Sanford, D.O.

Griffith, Brent, M.D.

* Berris, Karen, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Jarbou, Reem, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont Beaumont

Piper, Marc, M.D.

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Piper, Michael, M.D.

Coleman, Dawn, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy

Piraka, Cyrus, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Eliason, Jonathan, M.D.

Polidori, Gregg, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Beaumont

Pompa, Robert, M.D.

* Fertel, David, D.O.

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

* Raphael, Michael, D.O.

Hans, Sachinder, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Salgia, Reena, M.D.

Haouilou, Jimmy, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Schairer, Jason, M.D.

Henke, Peter, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Michigan Medicine, St. Joseph Mercy

Singla, Sumit, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Iljas, John, D.O.

Sorser, Serge, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan

Weber, John, M.D.

Kabbani, Loay, M.D.

Beaumont

Henry Ford Health

Zuchelli, Tobias, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Kennedy, Nicole, M.D.

GASTROENTEROLOGY – PEDIATRIC

Long, Graham, M.D.

Cares, Kristen, M.D.

Lorelli, David, M.D.

Beaumont

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

* El-Baba, Mohammad, M.D.

Nypaver, Timothy, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Henry Ford Health

Fatima, Ayesha, M.D.

Beaumont

Gebara, Souheil, M.D. Beaumont

Kumar, Sanjay, M.D. Ascension Michigan

Lyons, Hernando, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Madani, Shailender, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Oppat, William, M.D.

Franco, Marianne, M.D.

Robbins, James, M.D.

Frikker, Mark, M.D.

Siegel, David, D.O.

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont

* Gerken, Jeffrey, D.O. Gupta, Arielle, M.D.

Weaver, Donald, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Hinshaw, Keith, M.D.

Zoubi, Najeeb, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

GENERAL SURGERY Albaran, Renato, M.D.

Sousa, Nicholas, D.O.

Ascension Michigan

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Ascension Michigan

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Mitsuya, Jennifer, D.O.

Beaumont

Beaumont

Ivascu, Felicia, M.D.

Jacobs, Michael, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Webber, John, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Rimar, Steven, M.D. Rits, Yevgeniy, M.D. Rizk, Youssef, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

GENERAL VASCULAR SURGERY

Kolbe, Nina, D.O.

Aziz, Abdulhameed, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Bazzi, Mazen, D.O.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

McIntosh, Bruce, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

McKany, Malik, M.D.

Boules, Tamer, M.D.

Falvo, Anthony, D.O.

Reddy, Pritham, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center

Edelman, David, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Pensler, Elizabeth, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Woodward, Ann, M.D.

St. Joseph Mercy

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Beaumont

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health, St. Joseph Mercy

Elkus, Robert, M.D.

Patel, Bipinchandra, D.O.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health, McLaren Health Care, St. Joseph Mercy Detroit Medical Center

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Rebock, Michael, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Bove, Paul, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Shepard, Alexander, M.D. Silver, Scott, M.D.

Weaver, Mitchell, M.D. Henry Ford Health

GENETICS Ahsan, Samira, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

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Aughton, David, M.D. Beaumont

Jay, Allison, M.D.

McBride, James, M.D. Beaumont

Morgan, Sandra, M.D.

Roberson, Jacquelyn, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

* Zakalik, Dana, M.D.

Beaumont

GENETICS – PEDIATRIC * Aughton, David, M.D.

Beaumont

Beaumont

* Newman, Alan, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Paladino, Paige, D.O. Beaumont

Peng, Jennifer, M.D.

Beaumont

Simmerman, Neil, M.D.

Flore, Leigh, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Misra, Vinod, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Henry Ford Health

Singer, Richard, M.D.

Kitchen, Brenda, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Beaumont

Sobol, Gregory, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Waljee, Jennifer, M.D. Michigan Medicine, St. Joseph Mercy

Wiater, Brett, M.D.

Beaumont

HAND SURGERY – PEDIATRIC Chung, Kevin, M.D.

Lorenzana, Adonis, M.D. Rajpurkar, Madhvi, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Taub, Jeffrey, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE MEDICINE Chasteen, Kristen, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Speier-Schafer, Carrie, D.O. Beaumont

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Chmielewski, Angela, M.D. Beaumont

Stockton, David, M.D.

Beaumont

Yoon, Young, D.O.

* Lochner, Heather, M.D.

Clary-Lantis, L., D.O.

GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY

HAND SURGERY

HEMATOLOGY

Ascension Michigan

Al-Wahab, Zaid, M.D.

* Arora, Avery, M.D.

Chisti, Mohammad, M.D.

Grech, Anthony, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Beaumont

Buekers, Thomas, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Chobanian, Nishan, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Dimitrova, Irina, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

* Gadzinski, Jill, M.D. Beaumont

Hicks, Michael, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center, McLaren Health Care, St. Joseph Mercy

Morris, Robert, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Babushkina, Anna, M.D.

Cotant, Matthew, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Donthireddy, Vijayalakshmi, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Bohm, Kyle, M.D.

Forman, Adam, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Bush, Ara, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Garg, Sandeep, M.D.

St. Joseph Mercy

Cleland, Kirk, M.D.

St. Joseph Mercy

Margolis, Jeffrey, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Musa, Faisal, M.D.

Dietz, James, M.D.

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Sakr, Sharif, M.D.

Gorski, John, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Beaumont

Davidson, Brent, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Joshi, Chandrika, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

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Newman, Elisheva, M.D.

Vakhariya, Cynthia, D.O. Zonder, Jeffrey, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Schwartzenfeld, David, D.O.

Tremonti, Nadia, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

HYPERTENSION * Yee, Jerry, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

INFECTIOUS DISEASES Abreu Lanfranco, Odaliz, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan

HEMATOLOGY – PEDIATRIC

Henry Ford Health

King, Elizabeth, M.D.

* Bell, Danielle, M.D.

Placzek, Jeff, M.D.

Berman, Brian, M.D.

Guiboux, Jean-Paul, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Bartholomew, Frederick, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Stellini, Michael, M.D., M.S. Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Beaumont

Lewandowski, Jeanne, M.D.

Mackler, Niklas, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Kafri, Zyad, M.D.

Beaumont

Bark, Soyoun, M.D.

Kontos, Natalie, D.O.

Ascension Michigan

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Henry Ford Health

GYNECOLOGY

* Katzman, Steven, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

* Kuriakose, Philip, M.D.

DeSilva, Stephen, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Henry Ford Health

Ciullo, Jeremy, M.D.

Rasool, Nabila, M.D.

Winer, Ira, M.D., Ph.D.

Crader, Christine, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan

St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Rosen, Barry, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Munkarah, Adnan, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Ascension Michigan

Rohde, Rachel, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Callaghan, Michael, M.D.

Beaumont

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Samona, Scott, M.D.

Chitlur, Meera, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Gowans, L., M.D.

Alangaden, George, M.D. Brar, Indira, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Chandrasear, Pranatharthi, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Chen, Anne, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Chittick, Paul, M.D.

Beaumont

Beaumont

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Cohn, Jonathan, M.D. Detroit Medical Center

INFECTIOUS DISEASES – PEDIATRIC

Keimig, William, M.D.

Drelichman, Vilma, M.D.

Abdulnour-Farjo, Rand, M.D.

Krol, Gregory, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Ascension Michigan

Henry Ford Health

Fishbain, Joel, M.D.

Abu-Khdeir, Maha, M.D.

Lee, Ben, D.O.

Beaumont

Gilpin, Nicholas, D.O.

Beaumont

Gordon, James, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Gowda, Sachi, M.D.

Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health, St. Joseph Mercy

Ang, Jocelyn, M.D.

Levine, Diane, M.D.

* Doyle, Michael, M.D.

* Freij, Bishara, M.D.

McGrath, Eric, M.D.

Beaumont

Henry Ford Health

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Jiddou-Yaldoo, Renee, M.D.

Thirumoorthi, Muthayipalayam, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Lubera, Richard, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Maddens, Michael, M.D.

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan

Najor, Jeffrey, M.D. Ascension Michigan

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Asbahi, Redwan, M.D.

Rocco, Nicole, M.D.

Beaumont

Lauter, Carl, M.D. Beaumont

Levine, Miriam, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Little, Tania, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Malani, Anurag, M.D.

St. Joseph Mercy

Moudgal, Varsha, M.D. St. Joseph Mercy

Ramesh, Mayur, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Sharma, Mamta, M.D. Ascension Michigan

Silverman, Jan, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health, McLaren Health Care

* Wahiduzzaman, Md, M.D. Ascension Michigan

Weinmann, Allison, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Zervos, Marcus, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Panush, Daniel, M.D.

Beaumont

Sabin, Bradley, M.D.

Baker-Genaw, Kimberly, M.D.

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Batah, Fouad, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Carion, William, M.D.

Beaumont, Ascension Michigan, Henry Ford Health

Cassidy, Bruce, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Feldman, Barry, M.D.

Scher, Eric, M.D.

Trivax, Geoffrey, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Henry Ford Health

Xavier, Angela, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Yacoub, Michael, M.D. Ascension Michigan

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY

Garg, Manisha, M.D.

Critchfield, Jeffrey, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Gierer, Jacqueline, D.O. Beaumont

Grewal, Rajinder, M.D.

St. Joseph Mercy

Hazin, Ribhi, M.D.

* Brown, Kimberly, M.D.

Michigan Medicine

Henry Ford Health

Kirsch, Denise, M.D.

Al Sibae, Mohamad, M.D.

Beaumont

Meloelain, Jamil, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center

Kaul, Daniel, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

LIVER SPECIALIST

Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

INTERNAL MEDICINE Abreu Lanfranco, Odaliz, M.D.

Beaumont

Mahesh, Shyam, M.D.

Kalyan, Shamla, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Ascension Michigan

Lewis, Scott, M.D.

Herc, Erica, M.D.

St. Joseph Mercy

Zayat, Pierre, M.D.

Asmar, Basim, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Krasan, Graham, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

* Schwartz, Scott, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

LIPID DISORDERS

Hanna, Michel, M.D.

Johnson, Leonard, M.D.

St. Joseph Mercy

Detroit Medical Center

Beaumont

Beaumont

Rubin, Joshua, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Beaumont

Osher, Matthew, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Fallucca, John, M.D.

Fontana, Robert, M.D. Gordon, Stuart, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Moonka, Dilip, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Salgia, Reena, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Venkat, Deepak, M.D. Henry Ford Health

NEONATOLOGY Adams, John, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Chawla, Sanjay, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Ezhuthachan, Sudhakar, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Natarajan, Girija, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

* Pappas, Athina, M.D. Ascension Michigan

Patel, Deepak, M.D. Ascension Michigan

Henry Ford Health

NEPHROLOGY

Getzen, Todd, M.D.

Abuhmaid, Fadi, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Jain, Nitin, M.D.

Heidemann, Danielle, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Marin, Horia, M.D.

Beaumont

Henry Ford Health

Hull, Adam, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

* Katzman, Steven, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Ascension Michigan

Kakos, Roger, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health Miller, Jeffrey, M.D

Bellovich, Keith, D.O. Beaumont

Dancik, Jerry, M.D. Gold, Jeffrey, M.D. Ismail, Kal, M.D.

St. Joseph Mercy

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Margolis, Kim, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Novak, James, M.D.

Mattoo, Tej, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Kresch, Jodi, D.O.

Leleszi, Elizabeth, M.D.

Valentini, Rudolph, M.D.

Miller, Daniel, M.D.

Luat, Aimee, M.D.

NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES – PEDIATRIC

Moudgil, Shyam, M.D.

Ruprecht, Beata, D.O.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Henry Ford Health

Ramamurthi, Kalyana, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, St. Joseph Mercy

* Johnson, Tisa, M.D.

Rankin, Steven, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

NEUROLOGY

Rehman, Iram, M.D.

Arcila-Londono, Ximena, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, St. Joseph Mercy

Henry Ford Health

Barkley, Gregory, M.D.

Rossi, Noreen, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center

Soman, Sandeep, M.D. Henry Ford Health

* Yee, Jerry, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

NEPHROLOGY – PEDIATRIC Baracco Maggi, Rossana, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Gregory, Melissa, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, St. Joseph Mercy

Jain, Amrish, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

* Kapur, Gaurav, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Lombel, Rebecca, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Henry Ford Health

Boudouris, William, D.O.

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Newman, Daniel, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

* Singer, Daniel, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Turner, Isaac, M.D.

Hickenbottom, Susan, M.D. Jamwal, Neena, M.D. Jolly, Surindar, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Kole, Bruce, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Voci, J., M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Williams, Mitchel, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Abdulhak, Muwaffak, M.D.

Esther L. Young

Henry Ford Health

Iram F. Zaman

Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Beaumont

St. Joseph Mercy

* Sivaswamy, Lalitha, M.D.

Verma, Narayan, M.D.

Emmer, Anthony, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan

NEUROSURGERY

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Fellows, Jonathan, D.O.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Beaumont

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Henry Ford Health

NEUROLOGY – PEDIATRIC Allarakhia, Iqbal, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Air, Ellen, M.D.

Chamiraju, Partha, M.D.

Chedid, Mokbel, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Dashnaw, Matthew, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Beaumont

Arndt, Daniel, M.D.

Fahim, Daniel, M.D.

Beaumont

Constantinou, Jules, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Leber, Steven, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Carr, Daniel, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Guthikonda, Murali, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Houseman, Clifford, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Johnson, Robert, II, M.D. Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Junn, Fredrick, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Kalkanis, Steven, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Kelkar, Prashant, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Kole, Max, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Kornblum, Martin, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, St. Joseph Mercy

Lee, Ian, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Malik, Ghaus, M.D.

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Mehra, Ratnesh, D.O.

Katz, Lon, M.D.

Nadeau, Laura, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Moisi, Marc, M.D.

Kmak, David, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center

Henry Ford Health

Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care, St. Joseph Mercy

Knapp, John, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Pannu, Tejpaul, M.D.

Lingam, Deepthi, M.D.

Perez-Cruet, Miguelangelo, M.D.

Paladino, Paige, D.O.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Richards, Boyd, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Robin, Adam, M.D.

Beaumont

Beaumont

Peng, Jennifer, M.D.

Beaumont

Poisson, Christine, M.D. St. Joseph Mercy

Henry Ford Health

Reinke-Young, Michelle, D.O.

Rock, Jack, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Henry Ford Health

Schwalb, Jason, M.D. Henry Ford Health

* Setty, Pradeep, D.O.

Wallace, Elise, M.D.

Beaumont

OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health, St. Joseph Mercy

* Metropoulos, George, M.D.

Soo, Teck, M.D.

* Metropoulos, Peter, D.O.

Beaumont

Ascension Michigan, Henry Ford Health

Rybkin, Igor, M.D., Ph.D. * Vakhariya, Cynthia, D.O. Ascension Michigan

Wollner, Ira, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Zekman, Richard, D.O.

Beaumont

ONCOLOGY – PEDIATRIC Bell, Danielle, M.D. Ascension Michigan

Chu, Roland, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Gowans, L., M.D. Beaumont

Kitchen, Brenda, M.D.

Beaumont

Lorenzana, Adonis, M.D. Ascension Michigan

Martin, Alissa, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Savasan, Sureyya, M.D.

Goldman, David, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Goyal, Anju, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center

Granadier, Robert, M.D.

Beaumont

Grant, Joshua, M.D.

Beaumont

Hart, John, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Holm, Holly, M.D.

St. Joseph Mercy

Imami, Nauman, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Juzych, Mark, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Kahana, Alon, M.D., Ph.D. Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy Kumar, Nitin, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

* Lupovitch, Jeffrey, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Murad-Kejbou, Sally, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Henry Ford Health

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Beaumont

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

ONCOLOGY

* Taub, Jeffrey, M.D.

Page, Timothy, M.D.

NEUROSURGERY – PEDIATRIC

Beekman, Kathleen, M.D.

Staudt, Michael, M.D.

Garton, Hugh, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

St. Joseph Mercy

OPHTHALMOLOGY

Cotant, Matthew, M.D.

Adelson, Howard, D.O.

Donthireddy, Vijayalakshmi, M.D.

Adelson, Todd, D.O.

Detroit Medical Center, Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Ham, Steven, D.O.

Henry Ford Health

Maher, Cormac, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Forman, Adam, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Marupudi, Neena, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

* Sood, Sandeep, M.D.

Flaherty, Lawrence, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Garg, Sandeep, M.D.

St. Joseph Mercy

Heath, Elisabeth, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Aggarwal, Himanshu, M.D. Amirikia, Arezo, M.D.

Bergman, Ronald, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Clune, Michael, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

OBSTETRICS

Beaumont

Henry Ford Health

Jaiyesimi, Ishmael, D.O.

Dhaliwal, Avindar, M.D.

Bark, Soyoun, M.D.

Howard, George, M.D.

Beaumont

Beaumont

Bartholomew, Frederick, M.D.

Kafri, Zyad, M.D.

Beaumont

Ascension Michigan

* Brickman, Neil, M.D.

Loutfi, Randa, M.D.

Goyert, Gregory, M.D.

Margolis, Jeffrey, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center Henry Ford Health

Hopkins, Staci, M.D.

Beaumont

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Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Desai, Uday, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Henry Ford Health, St. Joseph Mercy

Dilly, Jason, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Edwards, Paul, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Everett, Kevin, M.D.

Musa, Faisal, M.D.

Farjo, Ayad, M.D.

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Beaumont

Patel, Anu, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center

Salter, Amanda, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Shanbom, Steven, M.D.

Beaumont

Siegel, Michael, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Sklar, Robert, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Stec, Lori, M.D.

Beaumont

OPHTHALMOLOGY – PEDIATRIC Apkarian, Alexandra, M.D.

Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Bohra, Lisa, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, McLaren Health Care

Dennehy, Patrick, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Gappy, Christopher, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

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Jeffrey Margolis, M.D. Jeffrey Margolis, M.D., board-certified in medical oncology and part of the Oakland Medical Group division of Michigan Healthcare Professionals, says there have been challenges for cancer patients over the past two years because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“People being treated for cancer are particularly at risk, and there also have been delays in diagnosis because things have been shut down as a result of the pandemic,” Dr. Margolis says. “At MHP, we’ve taken a number of precautions and steps to help keep our patients safe and make

sure they’re receiving important and timely treatments.”

Michigan Healthcare Professionals — the largest private practice in Michigan, with multiple specialties including medical oncology, surgical oncology, and radiation oncology — now provides concierge service, requires patients and staff to wear masks, and is making sure staff members are getting vaccinated. Because cancer patients are more susceptible to becoming very sick with COVID, MHP doctors participated in clinical trials for early treatments of the disease.

“We’re making more personal phone calls and following up with patients to make sure they’re having diagnostic testing done in an expeditious fashion, and we’re doing more tele-medical visits when possible, so people don’t have to come into the office when it’s not totally necessary,” Dr. Margolis says.

There also have been plenty of positive changes in cancer treatments during Dr. Margolis’ 24 years in medicine.

“What continues to change in oncology is what we call next-generation sequencing,” says Dr. Margolis, who earned his medical degree from the Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland. “This is a process that we use to look at the cancer genome, and we try to customize and target each patient’s treatment. We’re finding more effective and efficient treatments, and we’re seeing better results. We now identify very specific types of cancers; with these types of cancers come their own specific treatments — and it’s making a huge difference.”

Dr. Margolis is also a professor at Oakland University’s William Beaumont Medical School. ■

Oakland Medical Group/ Michigan Healthcare Professionals Specialty: Hematology, Oncology 32255 Northwestern Highway, Ste. 150 Farmington Hills, MI 48334 Phone: (248) 419-3456 | Fax: (248) 419-3455 3577 West Thirteen Mile Road, Ste. 204 Royal Oak, MI 48073 Phone: (248) 551-2446 | Fax: (248) 551-1094 jmargolis@mhpdoctor.com mhpdoctor.com

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THE LIST Top Doctors

Gappy, Shawn, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Gianfermi, Elena, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Rao, Rajesh, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Michigan Health, St. Joseph Mercy

* Roarty, John, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, McLaren Health Care

Rotberg, Leemor, M.D.

Rizzari, Michael, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Sonnenday, Christopher, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Yoshida, Atsushi, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Mendelson, Jeffrey, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, St. Joseph Mercy

Acker, William, II, M.D.

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Afsari, Alan, M.D. Bak, Sean, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Charters, Michael, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Cooke, Christopher, M.D. Detroit Medical Center

Davis, Jason, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Michaelson, Jefferey, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Milia, Marc, M.D. Beaumont

Mott, Michael, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Henry Ford Health

Moutzouros, Vasilios, M.D.

North, W., M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Perry, Richard, M.D.

ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY – PEDIATRIC

El-Yussif, Eddie, D.O.

Henry Ford Health

* Prieskorn, David, D.O.

* Edwards, Sean, M.D., D.D.S.

Farjo, Laith, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, St. Joseph Mercy

Ren, Emily, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Greene, Perry, M.D.

Saad, Mohamed, M.D. Beaumont

Sidhu, Kanwaldeep, M.D.

Guthrie, Stuart, M.D.

Vaidya, Rahul, M.D.

Bedi, Damanpreet, M.D.

Hakeos, William, M.D.

Collins, Kelly, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Beaumont

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Henry Ford Health

Hill, Derek, D.O.

Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Weir, Robb, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Zingas, Christopher, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Henry Ford Health

Granger, Darla, M.D. Ascension Michigan

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY – PEDIATRIC

Kim, Dean, M.D.

Kohen, Robert, M.D.

Bazzi, Ahmed, D.O.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Nagai, Shunji, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Knesek, David, D.O.

Beaumont

Kornblum, Martin, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, St. Joseph Mercy

Lasater, Peter, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

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Aronovitz, James, D.O. Ascension Michigan

Bahu, Sam, M.D.

St. Joseph Mercy

Bojrab, Dennis, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Carron, Michael, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Chang, Steven, M.D. Craig, John, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan

Frisch, Nicholas, M.D.

Akervall, Jan, M.D.

Munk, Andres, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

* Abouljoud, Marwan, M.D.

Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Henry Ford Health

Henry Ford Health

Dekker, Robert, M.D.

ORGAN TRANSPLANT

* Zaltz, Ira, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

St. Joseph Mercy

Bono, Peter, D.O.

Ward, Brent, M.D., D.D.S.

Mendelson, David, M.D.

Yassir, Walid, M.D.

Mendelson, Stephen, M.D.

* Barbetta, Benjamin, M.D., D.M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Marshall, Nathan, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Acker, Steven, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Ramirez-Neyra, Carlos, M.D., D.D.S.

Settecerri, Jeffrey, M.D.

OTOLARYNGOLOGY

ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy

Makhni, Eric, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY

Ascension Michigan

Edwards, Sean, M.D., D.D.S.

Minnock, Christopher, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Henry Ford Health

Mackey, Mark, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Henry Ford Health

Dickson, C., M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Farrugia, Matthew, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Folbe, Adam, M.D., M.S. Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care Fozo, Michael, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Gardner, Glendon, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Ghanem, Tamer, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Hoff, Paul, M.D.

St. Joseph Mercy

Hotaling, Jeffrey, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center

Jones, Lamont, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Kewson, Danny, M.D. Beaumont

Ko, Alvin, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Henry Ford Health

Henry Ford Health

Caird, Michelle, M.D.

* Korkigian, Shant, D.O.

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

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Cutler Integrative Medicine IV nutrient therapy clinics. ClubIV offers more than 80 advanced nutrient formulas that are customized to increase energy, enhance mood, improve sleep, optimize immune function, recover cellular homeostasis, and at the same time, decrease stress, support weight loss, and more.

Culter says although oral nutrient supplementation is important, there’s no comparison to the superior potency of nutrients delivered via IV/IM nutrient therapy, in which patients utilize 100 percent of the nutrients versus absorbing 50-60 percent orally. The IV nutrients bypass the gastrointestinal system so the results are fast, allowing you to feel better sooner while addressing a number of common issues.

Cutler is among one of the few doctors in Michigan to receive advanced training in environmental medicine and genetic polymorphisms. His specialties include naturopathic medicine and integrative medicine, with an expertise in chemical and toxic metal syndromes, autoimmune issues, cardio toxicology, endocrine issues, psychoneuroimmunology, food allergies and sensitivities, gastrointestinal issues, preconception care, pediatrics, hormonal imbalances, anti-aging, weight issues, chronic fatigue syndrome, and disease prevention and health education.

Cutler’s philosophy as a licensed naturopathic physician is focused on determining the underlying causes of an illness while also treating the symptoms which are often the combination of several factors such as nutritional or biochemical dysfunctions, lifestyle, genetics, environmental toxicants, as well as the mind, emotions and beliefs.

To improve one’s body or skin, the FACE clinic offers more than 40 different laser and facial technologies including body sculpting, celebrity facials, laser skin rejuvenation, and injectable fillers.

Dr. Cutler is a member of the Naturopathic Academy of Environmental Medicine, American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, the Michigan Association of Naturopathic Physicians, the American College for Advancement in Medicine, and the Pediatric Association of Naturopathic Physicians. ■

Does your doctor give you a 90-day guarantee to improve your health or your initial office visit is free? Does your doctor get to the origin of your medical issue instead of just treat the symptoms?

Dr. Doug Cutler, ND, does all of these, so expect your health to improve.

Trained in naturopathic medicine, Dr. Cutler founded Cutler Integrative Medicine and the Integrative Health Model using a holistic approach with naturopathic medicine to create breakthroughs in his patients’ health by getting to the cause of symptoms while empowering patients to better health. Cutler Integrative Medicine is a

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premier award-winning wellness clinic that provides patients with unparalleled individualized naturopathic health care, education, and support in their progression toward enhanced health for body, mind, and spirit. Cutler’s wife, Holly, also heads the award-winning FACE Skincare~Medical~Wellness clinic, nationally recognized by Forbes as “one of the most advanced medical spas in the country.”

Always in demand and on the forefront of holistic innovation, Cutler pioneered ClubIV, one of the most extensive IV nutrient clinics in the country and one of only a few FDA/USP-compliant

Cutler Integrative Medicine 31350 Telegraph Rd., Ste. 102 Bingham Farms, MI 48025 248-663-0165 cutlerintegrativemedicine.com

3/23/22 11:37 AM

THE LIST Top Doctors

Kubek, Douglas, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Lepoudre, Christine, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Lin, Ho-Sheng, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Mayerhoff, Ross, M.D. Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Darrat, Ilaaf, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

* Gonik, Nathan, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Green, Glenn, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Haupert, Michael, D.O.

Mulawa, Jason, M.D. Ascension Michigan, St. Joseph Mercy

PEDIATRICS – PEDIATRIC Allen, Nakia, M.D.

Oddo, Anthony, D.O.

Henry Ford Health, Detroit Medical Center

Osta, Walid, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, St. Joseph Mercy

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Peter, Jason, D.O.

Ascension Michigan

Barone, Charles, M.D.

Church, Sage, D.O. Ascension Michigan

Clark, Laura, M.D.

Pollina, Ryan, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Momin, Suhael, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Detroit Medical Center

Beaumont

Prince, Mark, M.D.

Helwig, Cecilia, M.D.

Sabbagh, Mahmoud, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Michigan Medicine

O’Niel, Mallory, M.D.

Reddy, Pavan, M.D.

Henry Ford Health, Michigan Medicine

Rubin, Adam, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Seel, David, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Standring, Robert, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Stern, Noah, D.O.

Detroit Medical Center

Succar, Eric, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Toma, Mark, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Toma, Roger, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Siegel, Bianca, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Thorne, Marc, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Thottam, Prasad, D.O.

Varjabedian, Gregory, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Weingarten, Jeffrey, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health, St. Joseph Mercy

Yaremchuk, Kathleen, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Yerman, Howard, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, McLaren Health Care

Thomas, Suresh, M.D.

Petroff, Christy, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Raza, Saleem, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Tong, Henry, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Upadhyay, Aman, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Smitherman, Lynn, M.D.

PEDIATRICS – PEDIATRIC (PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE) Abu-Khdeir, Maha, M.D.

Wiener, Steven, M.D.

Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

PATHOLOGY

PERINATAL- NEONATAL MEDICINE

Allo, Ghassan, M.D.

* Alpay-Savasan, Zeynep, M.D.

Chitale, Dhananjay, M.D.

Pappas, Athina, M.D.

* Green, Alex, M.D.

Sood, Beena, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Henry Ford Health

Freydl, Karl, D.O.

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Beaumont

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, St. Joseph Mercy

Beaumont

Ascension Michigan

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Henry Ford Health

Keller, Christian, M.D.

Whitten, Amy, M.D.

Haddad, Roger, D.O.

Kupsky, William, M.D. Detroit Medical Center

PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION

Honet, James, M.D.

Pansare, Vaishali, M.D.

Achtman, Shawn, D.O.

Icaza, Eduardo, M.D.

Sakr, Wael, M.D.

Kole, William, M.D.

Stone, Chad, M.D.

Glisky, Natalia, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, St. Joseph Mercy

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Sikorsky, Michael, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Vakhariya, Rakesh, D.O.

Yoo, George, M.D.

Bohm, Lauren, M.D.

Lauter, Jonathan, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Aljassem, Annas, M.D.

St. Joseph Mercy

OTOLARYNGOLOGY – PEDIATRIC

Siddiqi, Shad, D.O.

McLaren

Deogun, Kuldip, M.D.

* Forman, Seth, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

PAIN MANAGEMENT Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Faber, Seth, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Sibai, Nabil, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

* Feldman, Daniel, M.D.

Beaumont

Ascension Michigan

Beaumont

Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center

Detroit Medical Center

Aljassem, Annas, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

* Arbit, Steven, M.D.

Walters, Laura, M.D., Ph.D.

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health, St. Joseph Mercy

Detroit Medical Center, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Wasco, Matthew, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Minott, Sharon, M.D.

Zarbo, Richard, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Lee, Kevin, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center

Lininger, Todd, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont

Beaumont

St. Joseph Mercy

Bauer, Raymond, M.D. Belen, Jack, M.D.

Femminineo, Anthony, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

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Dr. Thomas Nabity Jr. Dr. John Santa Ana

Most people believe that to treat pain, whether it’s knee, back, shoulder, neck, or other joints, they need prescription drugs or surgeries.

Or, they may feel that to their manage pain, they simply have to slow down and lessen their activity levels, which can have adverse effects on physical and mental health. Thomas Nabity Jr., M.D. and John Santa Ana, DO want the community to know that there are other options; ones that don’t just mask pain or require joint replacements or lifestyle changes, but that actually regenerate the damaged tissue.

As partners at Michigan Center for Regenerative Medicine, both doctors are boardcertified, fellowship-trained interventional pain physicians specializing in a number of regenerative medicine procedures, most notably stem cell and platelet rich plasma therapies. These techniques are coming more into the mainstream, and they offer promising — and safer — alternatives to

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treating disorders of connective tissues such as bones, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, or muscles.

The most successful treatment option is a stem cell procedure, which uses the patient’s own stem cells — not umbilical or donor cells. Bone marrow is extracted, aspirated, and concentrated, then injected with precision into the affected tissue, signaling it to regenerate. Platelet rich plasma therapy is an option that uses the same process, but with a blood draw instead of a bone marrow aspiration. Both extractions are processed in an onsite lab managed by Greyledge Technologies, which also serves the highly accredited Steadman Clinic in Colorado. Typically, in three to six months, the tissue will have regenerated sufficiently, allowing the patient to be free from injection cycles, opioid painkillers, and potential surgery.

Is regenerative medicine right for you? The team at Michigan Center for Regenerative

Medicine is focused on positive outcomes and therefore carefully selects patients they believe can be helped by their treatments. Call 248-8461466 today to speak with a knowledgeable representative who can answer questions and schedule a consultation.■

Michigan Center for Regenerative Medicine 109 S. Main St. Rochester, MI 48307 248-216-1008 regenerativemedicinemichigan.com

3/18/22 4:40 PM

THE LIST Top Doctors

Hall, M., D.O.

Chau, Bruce, D.O.

Hysni, Craig, M.D.

Darian, Vigen, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health, St. Joseph Mercy

Kovan, Eric, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Marshall, John, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Michaels, Jenny, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Nwagwu, Chijioke, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Oddo, Anthony, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, St. Joseph Mercy

Pelshaw, Charles, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Elswick, Sarah, M.D. Beaumont

Evangelista, Maristella, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Griffin, DeLorean, M.D. St. Joseph Mercy

Hajjar, Raymond, D.O.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Janetzke, Ellen, M.D.

Beaumont

Kozlow, Jeffrey, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Meininger, Michael, M.D.

Beaumont

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Roth, Brian, M.D.

Momoh, Adeyiza, M.D. Michigan Medicine

Moquin, Kenneth, M.D. Henry Ford Health

St. Joseph Mercy

Zacharias, Ritu, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY (NOT COSMETIC) Ali, M., M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Almufarrej, Faisal, M.D.

Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center

Atisha, Dunya, M.D.

Sherbert, Daniel, M.D. Beaumont

Siddiqui, Aamir, M.D.

Nava, Guillermina, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Oliver, Lauren, D.O.

Beaumont

Puri, Pravin, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Vercler, Christian, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott’s Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE * Lee, Alison, M.D. Metropoulos, George, M.D. Ascension Michigan, Henry Ford Health

Metropoulos, Peter, D.O.

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Henry Ford Health

Sosa, Julio, M.D.

PSYCHIATRY

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Stefani, William, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Lumley, Christopher, D.O.

Sesi, Timothy, M.D.

Beaumont

Lofman, Andrew, M.D.

Peter, Jason, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Shaheen, Kenneth, M.D.

Studinger, Rebecca, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health, St. Joseph Mercy

Riutta, Justin, M.D.

Sayal, Navdeep, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Ascension Michigan, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan Ascension Michigan

Reisin, Elan, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Tanzman, Barak, D.O.

Tepper, Donna, M.D.

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Williams, Jeffrey, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY (NOT COSMETIC) – PEDIATRIC Buchman, Steven, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy

Chaiyasate, Kongkrit, M.D. Beaumont

Kasten, Steven, M.D.

Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy, Michigan Medicine

* Rozzelle, Arlene, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Akinyemi, Esther, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Espiritu, Doree Ann, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Frank, Cathrine, M.D. Henry Ford Health

* Gupta, Bal, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Hollander, Debra, M.D. Ascension Michigan

Kakar, Davinder, M.D.

St. Joseph Mercy

MacLean, Lisa, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Morreale, Mary, M.D.

Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Patel, Hetal, M.D. Sivananthan, Mauran, D.O. Henry Ford Health

Zamaria, Abdallah, M.D. Ascension Michigan

PSYCHIATRY – PEDIATRIC Hendriks, Melissa, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

* Kakar, Davinder, M.D. St. Joseph Mercy

Henry Ford Health

Weingarden, Brooke, D.O.

Beil, Richard, M.D.

St. Joseph Mercy

RADIATION ONCOLOGY

* Black, Evan, M.D.

Abu-Isa, Eyad, M.D.

Busuito, Christina, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Busuito, Michael, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center Ascension Michigan, Beaumont Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Cederna, Paul, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Ajlouni, Munther, M.D. Antonucci, John, M.D. Aref, Amr, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Boike, Thomas, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, St. Joseph Mercy

Beaumont

Chaiyasate, Kongkrit, M.D. Beaumont

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Michigan Institute for Neurological Disorders (MIND)

The Michigan Institute for Neurological Disorders is among Michigan’s leading providers of neurological care for the full range of disorders of the brain, spine, and nervous system. The institution provides cutting-edge diagnosis, treatment, management, and research of neurological disorders. Patients receive individualized care to help improve their symptoms and quality of life.

Founded in 1969, MIND has become one of the largest and most comprehensive private neurological practices in Michigan. While times and technologies have changed in the past 50 years, MIND hasn’t compromised its core set of values, which focus on providing first-rate care.

The MIND team of 30 providers, who are experts in their field, offer compassionate, complete care for neurological disorders. Onsite diagnostics include two wide bore MRIs updated with the latest technology to produce high-quality images with shorter scan times, electrodiagnostics (EEG, EMG, OCT), as well as infusion and pain management services.

Specialists treat multiple sclerosis, headaches/

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facial pain, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease/memory disorders, Parkinson’s disease/movement disorders, muscular dystrophies, and epilepsy, along with other neurological conditions.

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society has recognized MIND’s Multiple Sclerosis Center as a Center for Comprehensive MS Care. It is one of the largest private MS centers in the country, caring for more than 3,700 patients per year. The MS Center was developed to provide diagnostic, therapeutic, and supportive services to multiple sclerosis patients and their families.

To help address one of the most common disorders of the central nervous system, MIND established its Headache & Facial Pain Center, which helps identify and treat frequent headache and facial pain that often results in the loss of productivity, disability, and poor quality of life.

MIND provides care closer to home for patients and makes expert treatment easier and more accessible, without visiting a hospital.

MIND’s full-service headquarters is in Farmington Hills and has offices in Roseville

and Dearborn Heights. Some evening and weekend appointments available. ■

Michigan Institute for Neurological Disorders (MIND) Headquarters 28595 Orchard Lake Rd., Ste. 200 Farmington Hills, MI 48334 248-553-0010 mindonline.com

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THE LIST Top Doctors

Chan, June, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Chen, Peter, M.D.

* Kado, Karl, M.D.

Diaz Mendoza, Javier, M.D.

Skender, Joseph, M.D.

Nandalur, Kiran, M.D.

* Dogra, Sanjay, M.D.

* Stewart, Shironda, M.D.

Ascension Michigan Beaumont

Beaumont

Sazgari, Reza, M.D.

Chuba, Paul, M.D., Ph.D.

Siegal, Daniel, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Dominello, Michael, D.O.

Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Elshaikh, Mohamed, M.D.

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Ezz, Ahmed, M.D.

Beaumont, McLaren Health Care

Ghilezan, Michael, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Trivax, Cory, M.D. St. Joseph Mercy

van Holsbeeck, Marnix, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Yusaf, Nadia, M.D. Ascension Michigan

RADIOLOGY – PEDIATRIC * Altinok, Deniz, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont

Ehtesham, Muhammad, M.D.

RHEUMATOLOGY – PEDIATRIC

Farra, M., M.D.

* Adams, Matthew, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Galens, Stephen, M.D. * Simoff, Michael, M.D.

SLEEP DISORDERS

Henry Ford Health

Sinha, Prabhat, D.O. Ascension Michigan

Soubani, Ayman, M.D.

Hart, Kimberly, M.D.

Bloom, David, M.D.

Trunsky, Matthew, M.D.

Beaumont

Collins, Denise, M.D.

Kestin, Larry, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Kress, Marie-Adele, M.D.

Beaumont

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy St. Joseph Mercy

Lee, Kuei, M.D., Ph.D. Beaumont

Maier, Jordan, M.D.

Gibson, Donald, M.D. Metz, Terrence, M.D.

Saleem, Sheena, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Miller, Kay, M.D.

REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY/ INFERTILITY

Movsas, Benjamin, M.D.

Gago, Laura, M.D.

Beaumont

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Hammoud, Ahmad, M.D.

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Parikh, Parag, M.D.

Kowalczyk, Carole, M.D.

Sahijdak, Walter, M.D. St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Shah, Mira, M.D.

Mersol-Barg, Michael, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Siddiqui, Farzan, M.D., Ph.D.

Miller, Bradley, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Siddiqui, M. Salim, M.D., Ph.D.

Moskovitz, Brenda, M.D.

Vicini, Frank, M.D.

* Wheeler, Karen, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Beaumont

RADIOLOGY

Wolf, Lynda, M.D.

Brown, Manuel, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Griffith, Brent, M.D. Helmer, Sharon, M.D.

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RESPIRATORY/ PULMONARY CARE Allen, Samuel, D.O.

Henry Ford Health

Srivastava, Ruma, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Henry Ford Health

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

* Nandalur, Sirisha, M.D.

* Abdulhamid, Ibrahim, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Mody, Swati, M.D.

Martinez, Alvaro, M.D.

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

RESPIRATORY/PULMONARY CARE – PEDIATRIC

RHEUMATOLOGY

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Beaumont

Beaumont, DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Beaumont

Fathalla, Basil, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Jawad, Maha, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

Beaumont

Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Beaumont, McLaren Health Care, St. Joseph Mercy Detroit Medical Center

Beaumont

Badr, M., M.D.

Detroit Medical Center

* Bazan, Luisa, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Dogra, Sanjay, M.D. Beaumont

Jayakar, Arunima, M.D. Ascension Michigan

Ranganathan, Chakrapani, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Rowens, Bradley, M.D. Ascension Michigan Rowley, James, M.D. Detroit Medical Center

Singh, Meeta, M.D.

Alkhatib, Ayad, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Bateman, Judith, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont

Bishnoi-Singh, Amita, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Dhar, Josephine, M.D. Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Kado, Ruba, M.D.

Skiba, Virginia, M.D. Yaremchuk, Kathleen, M.D. Henry Ford Health

SPORTS MEDICINE Acker, William, II, M.D.

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Bergin, Mark, M.D.

St. Joseph Mercy

Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

Maksimowicz-McKinnon, Kathleen, D.O.

Cooke, Christopher, M.D.

Marri-Gottam, Reshma, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Henry Ford Health

Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan

Meysami, Alireza, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Detroit Medical Center

* Ellenberg, Michael, M.D.

Frush, Todd, M.D.

Pevzner, Martin, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center

Qazi, Parveen, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Qazi, Sabrina, D.O.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Sagar, Harpreet, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Silverman, Larry, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Jaskulka, Bradley, M.D. Kolowich, Patricia, M.D. Henry Ford Health

Lasater, Peter, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Lock, Terrence, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Makhni, Eric, M.D., M.B.A.

Henry Ford Health

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Gago Center for Fertility/Gago IVF The Gago Center for Fertility/Gago IVF helps women and couples throughout Michigan and the Midwest realize their dreams of starting a family. Launched in 2007 by Laura April Gago, M.D., the practice has become a valuable asset in the community for couples who are struggling to conceive.

The center is equipped with state-of-the-art technology and the most advanced fertility treatments available. Their services include Invitro Fertilization (IVF), Preimplantation Genetic Testing (PGT), Donor Eggs, Donor Sperm, Intrauterine Insemination, Ovulation Induction, and Lifestyle and Sexual Counseling.

The Gago Center for Fertility was pleased to welcome Dr. Natalie Clark Stentz, M.D., M.S.C.E a Reproductive Endocrinology Infertility Specialist in July 2020. ■

Gago Center for Fertility/Gago IVF 2250 Genoa Business Park Dr., Ste. 110 Brighton, MI 48114 810-227-3232 gagofertility.com

Dr. Ellen A. Janetzke, M.D. There are several things to consider before cosmetic surgery. Among them is getting as much information as possible, check the qualifications of the surgeon, and evaluate the facility.

Dr. Ellen Janetzke, who has been in practice since 2001, believes that education is also one of the most crucial aspects of any procedure she offers, and she makes it a focus of every consultation with a potential client.

Whether it’s an abdominoplasty or liposuction; a breast augmentation, lift, or reduction — or a combination of these; other body contouring; or a face, eye, or neck lift, knowing what to expect and how to best prepare will set the patient up for the best possible outcomes.

Dr. Ellen, as she is known, also recommends patients feel comfortable with the provider they select and seek out a surgeon who is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. Dr. Ellen has achieved this certification and holds a membership in the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the Aesthetic Society. Dr. Ellen and her team take the time and the care to understand each patient’s goals and then guide them through every step including recovery. ■

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Dr. Ellen Plastic & Reconstruction Surgery 60 West Big Beaver Rd., Suite 100 Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304 248-220-6760 drellen.com

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THE LIST Top Doctors

Marshall, Nathan, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Mendelson, David, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Mendelson, Jeffrey, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Mendelson, Stephen, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Moeller, James, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Moore, Nicholas, M.D.

Mychaliska, George, M.D.

Beaumont

Novotny, Nathan, M.D.

Minanov, Oktavijan, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Shanti, Christina, M.D.

Reddy, Rishindra, M.D.

Relle, James, M.D. Beaumont

Rivers, Kandis, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Rogers, Craig, M.D.

UROLOGY

Schervish, Edward, M.D.

SURGICAL ONCOLOGY

Henry Ford Health

Henry Ford Health

Stallion, Anthony, M.D.

Rill, Brian, M.D.

Shehab, Ramsey, M.D.

Peabody, James, M.D.

Beaumont

Henry Ford Health

Berri, Richard, M.D. Ascension Michigan

Dossett, Lesly, M.D. Michigan Medicine

Jacobs, Michael, M.D.

Michigan Medicine

Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Beaumont

Ascension Michigan, Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

* Popoff, Andrew, M.D.

Speck, K., M.D.

Thirumoorthi, Arul, M.D.

Schoch, Nicholas, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, McLaren Health Care

Oldford, Gregory, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott’s Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy

Moutzouros, Vasilios, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Michigan Medicine

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Owczarek, Laura, M.D.

Lin, Jules, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Henry Ford Health

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center Henry Ford Health

Kim, Sang, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott’s Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy

Welsh, Robert, M.D.

Atiemo, Humphrey, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Burks, Frank, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Cher, Michael, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Dabaja, Ali, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Eliya, Fadi, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Rosenberg, Bradley, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Henry Ford Health

* Schock, Jeffrey, D.O.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Seifman, Brian, M.D.

Beaumont

Semerjian, Alice, M.D. St. Joseph Mercy

Shalhoub, Philip, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Sobol, Jennifer, D.O.

SURGERY – PEDIATRIC

Ascension Michigan, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Akay, Begum, M.D.

Kim, Steve, M.D.

Gudziak, Marko, M.D.

Stricker, Hans, M.D.

* Kwon, David, M.D.

Haddad, Joseph, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Brahmamdam, Pavan, M.D. Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Cullen, Marc, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care Henry Ford Health

Mott, Michael, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Donoghue, Lydia, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Henry Ford Health

Ehrlich, Peter, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Henry Ford Health

Shah, Rupen, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Henry Ford Health

Hafez, Khaled, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Hafron, Jason, M.D.

Beaumont

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy

Weaver, Donald, M.D.

Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Hurley, Patrick, M.D.

Hirschl, Ronald, M.D.

THORACIC SURGERY

Kernen, Kenneth, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy

Jarboe, Marcus, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy

Klein, Justin, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan

* Langenburg, Scott, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Henry Ford Health

Lelli, Joseph, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Henry Ford Health

Morden, Robert, M.D.

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

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Adams, Kumari, M.D.

St. Joseph Mercy

Chang, Andrew, M.D.

Michigan Medicine

Ascension Michigan

Beaumont, St. Joseph Mercy

Kleer, Eduardo, M.D. St. Joseph Mercy

Lucas, Steven, M.D.

Henry Ford Health

UROLOGY – PEDIATRIC Feber, Kevin, M.D.

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Kraft, Kate, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Lakshmanan, Yegappan, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Henry Ford Health

* Liss, Zachary, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, St. Joseph Mercy

Park, John, M.D.

Michigan Medicine, Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Beaumont

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center, Karmanos Cancer Center, McLaren Health Care

Edwards, Melanie, M.D.

Maralani, Shiva, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Henry Ford Health

Fertel, David, D.O.

Menon, Mani, M.D.

Beaumont

Hammoud, Zane, M.D.

Nagaraju, Pradeep, M.D.

DMC Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Henry Ford Health

Coello, Michael, M.D.

St. Joseph Mercy

Beaumont, Detroit Medical Center

Ascension Michigan

Hilu, John, M.D. Beaumont

Jamil, Kevin, M.D.

Ascension Michigan, Beaumont

Henry Ford Health Beaumont

O’Connor, Jeffrey, M.D.

Ascension Michigan

Preece, Janae, M.D.

Schober, Megan, M.D., Ph.D. Suson, Kristina, M.D.

Wan, Julian, M.D.

Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Beaumont

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After practicing for many years in another clinic, Anu Patel, M.D., ophthalmologist and retina specialist, opened her own practice.

Through The Retina Institute of Michigan, Dr. Patel says she optimizes the patient care experience and provides her patients with a better understanding of their condition. While there is no shortage of eye specialists in the Metro Detroit, what Dr. Patel offers, she says, is different: a more streamlined process, a calmer, less factory-driven approach to medicine, and a more personalized touch.

Patients are referred to The Retina Institute of Michigan by their primary care physician, optometrist, or ophthalmologist to address complex and difficult eye health problems. Dr. Patel and her team offer comprehensive services, including screening and monitoring of retinal disease, diabetic eye care, treatment for flashes and floaters, care for macular disorders and degeneration, vitreoretinal surgery, intravitreal injections, laser surgery, and more.

Dr. Patel says patients come in to The Retina Institute of Michigan with serious, often vision threatening issues, and leave feeling they’ve been listened to and treated with empathy and compassion. ■

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Dr. Dolores Baran, D.D.S. Dr. Dolores Baran is a nationally respected dentist, and for good reason. While her educational credentials and professional accomplishments are quite remarkable, it’s the care she offers and the results she achieves that really make her stand out.

A graduate of the University of Michigan School of Dentistry, Dr. Baran is a highly skilled dentist with more than 35 years of experience. She has earned recognition and accolades throughout her career not only by being a highly skilled dentist, but also a warm and caring person whom many of her patients call a friend, even seeing 3rd and some 4th generation families. She places great emphasis on getting to know her patients and their likes and dislikes.

Dr. Baran has been active with charities over the years.

She brought life-changing smiles and dentistry to women who were victims of Hurricane Katrina, and to those seeking shelter and support through Lighthouse in the wake of domestic abuse or displacement. She has been, and continues to be, involved with the Judson Center of Royal Oak, helping children with special needs.

Royal Oak Smiles is a full-service, comprehensive dental spa that’s committed to meeting patients’ oral health needs and providing a comfortable, serene dental experience.

Dr. Baran and the entire team provide excellent general and family dentistry, and state-of-the-art cosmetic and restorative dentistry services to give patients a healthy, dazzling smile.

“Our dentists and team utilize advanced dental technology and fully customized care to provide a comfortable dental experience with high-quality results,” Dr. Baran says. “We enjoy caring for our patients, and it shows through the level of service we provide.”

Royal Oak Smiles offers a full line of services including cosmetic Botox, Invisalign, restorative work, tooth gems, same-day crowns, implants, wisdom teeth removal, and sedation. They provide spa-like, high-quality dental care in Royal Oak, Berkley, Clawson, and the surrounding areas. ■

Royal Oak Smiles 1103 N. Main St., Ste. A Royal Oak, MI 48067 248-548-1440 royaloaksmiles.com

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Top Dentists Need your teeth cleaned? Does your child need braces? Do you want a brighter smile?

Where do you begin? Knowing that our readers want the best for themselves and their families, Hour Detroit — with the help of Professional Research Services — has gathered a list of the best dental professionals in metro Detroit. In a peer review survey, dentists in the metro Detroit area were asked to vote for their fellow dentists that they believe are the best in their dental specialty. The top vote-getters — listed by specialty — are below.

Dentists who have a photo with their listing made the Top Dentists list and have also paid for this enhanced listing..

Todd V. Ester, D.D.S. Southfield

M. Kay McNeight, D.D.S. St. Clair Shores

Steven J. Vlahakis, D.D.S Plymouth

Steven E. Fegan, D.D.S., M.S. Warren

Christopher McWatters, D.D.S., M.S. Livonia

Dmitry Vodopyanov, D.D.S., M.S. Ann Arbor

Endodontics

Richard Gardner, D.D.S. Ann Arbor

Kimberly K. Melegari, D.D.S. St. Clair Shores

Thomas Vokal, D.D.S., M.S. Chesterfield

Michael Glass, D.D.S. Rochester

Jeremy Michaelson, D.M.D. Dearborn

Lawrence C. Walsh, D.D.S. Warren

George T. Goodis, D.D.S., M.S.

Drew Moeller, D.D.S. Lake Orion

Daron Yarjanian, D.D.S. Dearborn

Stephen Navarre, D.D.S. Clinton Township

Hassan Yehia, D.D.S., M.S. Royal Oak

Gabrielle Noory, D.D.S. Southfield

Martha Zinderman, D.D.S., M.S. Livonia

James Nowicki, D.D.S. Bloomfield Hills

Michael Zuroff, D.D.S. Dearborn

Sarmad M. Alyas-Askar, D.D.S. Livonia Ali Aminlari, D.D.S., M.S. Ann Arbor Jeffrey L. Ash, D.D.S., M.S. Ann Arbor Vajra Bentur, D.D.S. Southfield Carl Botvinick, D.D.S. Waterford Kari Brodsky, D.D.S., M.S. Eastpointe Dominic Calek, D.D.S., M.S. Dearborn Heights Tiffeny Chimelak, D.D.S. Commerce Township Ashley Coulter, D.M.D. St. Clair Shores Nils E. Danielson, D.D.S., M.S. Clawson Timothy Daws, D.D.S. Shelby Township Gianni DeCarolis, D.M.D. Dearborn Derik P. DeConinck, D.D.S. Warren Clay C. Dietz, D.D.S. Troy Gerald Dietz Jr., D.D.S. Bloomfield Hills Craig Duhaime, D.D.S. Clarkston Steven Edlund, D.D.S., M.S. Ann Arbor

Goodis Endodontics 20175 Mack Ave. Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236 313-886-4040 gtgoodis@endodoctors.com endodoctors.com Brad G. Griffin, D.D.S. Southfield Gerald J. Halk, D.D.S., M.S., J.D., L.L.M. Sterling Heights Matthew G. Healy, D.D.S., M.S. Dexter Bradley A. Hirschman, D.D.S. Novi Erika M. Johnson, D.D.S. Hartland Jay Lang, D.D.S. Shelby Township Jeffery Marderosian, D.D.S. Southfield

Stephen T. McInerney, D.D.S., M.S.

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Eric Richardson, D.D.S., M.S. Southfield

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Mark Robinson, D.D.S. Ann Arbor

Natasha Aazami, D.D.S. Roseville

Richard Rubinstein, D.D.S. Farmington Hills

Al Abdelnour, D.D.S. Livonia

Ross Ryan, D.D.S. Rochester Robert M. Rybicki, D.D.S., M.S. Novi Andrew Schoelch, D.D.S. St. Clair Shores Michael Shapiro, D.D.S., M.S. West Bloomfield Louis Shoha, D.D.S., M.S. Clinton Township Steven Shoha, D.D.S. Clinton Township Chad Speirs, D.D.S. Farmington Hills Rachel Stockhausen, D.D.S. Livonia Andrea Tory, D.D.S. Plymouth

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THE LIST Top Dentists William G. Bender, D.D.S. Grosse Pointe Woods

Craig Goldin, D.D.S. Troy

Michelle Maltese, D.D.S. Rochester

Alan M. Simons, D.D.S. Farmington Hills

Richard S. Bernstein, D.D.S., M.S. Farmington Hills

Marcy Goldin, D.D.S. Troy

Christopher J. Manduzzi, D.D.S. Utica

Matthew J. Smith, D.D.S. Huntington Woods

Mark Birnholtz, D.D.S. Farmington Hills

Raphael V. Goldstein, D.D.S. Novi

Michael J. Marderosian, D.D.S. Bloomfield Hills

Warren Black, D.D.S. Keego Harbor

Linda Goodman, D.D.S. Farmington Hills

Scott Meldrum, D.D.S. Bloomfield Hills

David Sorial, D.D.S., FICOI, PC

Daniel R. Blazo, D.D.S. Dearborn

Jeffrey Grabiel, D.D.S. Birmingham

Renee Miller, D.D.S. Bingham Farms

I. Bohay, M.S., D.D.S. Warren

Kevin Groth, D.D.S. Bingham Farms

Andrea B. Monkman, D.D.S. Madison Heights

Gregg S. Bonamici, D.D.S. Dearborn

Steven D. Gustafson, D.D.S. Royal Oak

Terrance H. Moore, D.D.S. Dearborn

Edward A. Borio, D.D.S. Bloomfield Hills

Nancy Hartrick, D.D.S.

Robert G. Nakisher, D.D.S. West Bloomfield

Marianne F. Stefan, D.D.S. Huntington Woods

Melissa Novetsky, D.D.S. Garden City

Stephanie Stephan, D.D.S. Auburn Hills

Shahrzad “Shad” Orenduff, D.D.S. Roseville

Jay Stone, D.D.S. Birmingham

Ana Brajak, D.D.S. Eastpointe William Carmody, D.D.S. Troy Sam Cohen, D.M.D. Westland

Alex Hunt, D.D.S. Brighton

Steven Cohen, D.D.S. Westland Joseph L. Colon, D.D.S. Roseville Paul Darmon, D.D.S. Beverly Hills Jeffrey S. Dillingham, D.D.S. Bloomfield Hills Robert DiPilla, D.D.S., F.A.G.D. Detroit Michelle C. Dziurgot, D.D.S. Shelby Township James A. Everett, D.D.S. Grosse Pointe

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Dr. Brian J. Hunt, D.D.S. 24641 Jefferson Ave. St. Clair Shores, MI 48080 586-772-7373 info@brianjhuntdds.com brianjhuntdds.com Jon Hurst, D.D.S. Grosse Pointe Woods Stephen E. Jacobson, D.D.S. Walled Lake

Jeffrey Jaghab, D.D.S. Northville Stephanie Jaghab, D.D.S. Northville David Kam, D.D.S. Canton Richard Klein, D.D.S. Warren

Bruce Fisher, D.D.S. Danielle Plymouth

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Brian J. Hunt, D.D.S.

Steven P. Jaffe, D.D.S. Novi

Horacio Falcón, D.D.S.

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Lois Kovalchick, D.D.S. Grosse Pointe Woods Eric M. Kruske, D.D.S. Bloomfield Hills Dennis Laurich, D.D.S. Livonia Matt Laurich, D.D.S. Farmington Hills

Paula Ottaway, D.D.S. Grosse Pointe Woods William Palm, D.D.S. Huntington Woods Alexandra Peri, D.D.S. Bloomfield Hills Milad Rabban, D.D.S. Clinton Township Nicholas Reid, D.D.S. Farmington Hanan Kazbour Rizk, D.D.S. Ann Arbor Jeffery L. Roeser, D.D.S. Clarkston Russell A. Sassack, D.D.S. Sterling Heights Tim J. Schafer, D.D.S. Canton Kevin Schierlinger, D.D.S. Troy B. Sedki, D.D.S. Commerce Township Sanjiv Shah, D.D.S. Novi

Amanda M. Sheehan, D.D.S., M.A.G.D., DICOI, D. ABDSM

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Smile Farmington Hills, PC Drs. Birnholtz, Sorial & Steiner 32931 Middlebelt Rd. Farmington Hills, MI 48334 248-626-9915 docsorial@gmail.com smilefarmingtonhills.com

Mary Sue Stonisch, D.D.S.

Faircourt Dental Smile Studio 20040 Mack Ave. Grosse Pointe Woods, MI 48236 313-882-2000 thesmileartist@comcast.net faircourtdental.com Ronald L. Sudomir, D.D.S. Sterling Heights Kenneth D. Thomas, D.D.S., F.A.G.D. Clarkston Matthew B. Thomas, D.D.S. Clarkston Doug G. Thompson, D.D.S. Bloomfield Hills Ben Underwood, D.D.S. Warren Suela Veizaj, D.D.S. Wyandotte P. Steven Wainess, D.D.S. St. Clair Shores Gary J. Warr, D.D.S. Southfield Jeffrey E. Watzman, D.D.S. Madison Heights Jeffrey L. Weinfeld, D.D.S. West Bloomfield David Whalen, D.D.S., F.A.G.D. Troy Mark Wolowiec, D.D.S Bloomfield Hills

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THE LIST Top Dentists Robert W. Wood, D.D.S. West Bloomfield

Gary Forgach, D.D.S. Shelby Township

Aaron M. Pokorny, D.D.S., M.D. Rochester Hills

Richard Bruno, D.D.S., M.S. Clawson

Krista Wortman, D.D.S. Shelby Township

Arvind Gulati, D.D.S. Novi

Carlos Ramirez-Neyra, M.D., D.D.S. Warren

Eric Brust, D.D.S., M.S. Taylor

Mark Wortman, D.D.S. Shelby Township

Anish A. Gupta, D.D.S., M.S. Southgate

Paul A. Renke, D.D.S. Rochester Hills

Bridget Bushon-Miller, D.D.S., M.S. Sterling Heights

David R. Zamler, D.D.S. Royal Oak

John Hackenberger, D.D.S. Grosse Pointe Woods

David M. Rombach, D.D.S., M.D. Huntington Woods

Andrew DeHaan, D.D.S. Lake Orion

Curtiss P. Haskins, D.D.S., M.D. Livonia

Aaron Ruskin, D.D.S. Farmington Hills

John J. Dumas, D.D.S. Birmingham

Joseph M. Hildebrand, D.D.S. Shelby Township

William Ruskin, D.D.S. Farmington Hills

Laura Edwards, D.D.S., M.S. Ann Arbor

Paul Ho, D.D.S. Brownstown

Omar Salamen, D.D.S. Dexter

Marvin Jabero, D.D.S. Hartland

Christopher R. Sanker, D.D.S., M.D. Ann Arbor

Robert C. John, D.D.S., M.D. Oxford

Timothy Schmakel, D.D.S., M.D. Bingham Farms

Bryan Johnson, D.D.S. Clarkston

Russell Sclafani, D.D.S., M.D. Macomb

Anthony Kasper, D.D.S., O.M.F.S. Clinton Township

Kathryn A. Sonpal, D.D.S. Rochester Hills

Cynthia L. Fee, D.D.S., M.S. Plymouth

P. Andrew Kissoondial, D.D.S. Sterling Heights

Gregory Thomas, D.D.S., M.S. Rochester Hills

Richard Friedman, D.M.D. Royal Oak

Jeffrey C. Knorr, D.D.S., MSBA New Baltimore

William L. Thompson, D.D.S., M.D. Commerce Township

Thomas Gebeck, D.D.S., M.S. Birmingham

Michael Kraemer, D.M.D., M.D. Warren

Jeffrey Topf, D.D.S. West Bloomfield

Christian G. Groth, D.D.S., M.S. Birmingham

Vejayan Krishnan, D.D.S. Farmington Hills

Jeffrey Wasielewski, D.D.S., M.D., MBA Plymouth

Michael R. Hardy, D.D.S, M.S. Waterford Township

James D. Williams, D.D.S. Clarkston

Aaron Havens, D.D.S., M.S. St. Clair Shores

Steven Wolf, D.D.S. Warren

David Havens, D.D.S., M.S. St. Clair Shores

Jeevaka Yapa, D.D.S. Southfield

Jeffrey Heinz, D.D.S. Novi

Orthodontics

Nelson “Nick” Hersh, D.D.S., M.S. West Bloomfield Township

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Zaid Abu-Seir, D.D.S. Farmington Hills Joe Alamat, D.D.S., M.D. Shelby Township Jonathon Anderson, D.D.S. Birmingham Mark A. Azzopardi, D.D.S. Novi Norman Betts, D.D.S., M.S. Plymouth Chad E. Betz, D.D.S. Livonia Thomas Bolten, D.D.S., M.D. West Bloomfield Nicholas Bournias, D.D.S. West Bloomfield Henry G. Bryan, D.D.S. Roseville Thomas Butts, D.D.S. Brighton

Arshi Lehal, D.D.S., M.D. Warren

Robert N. Chames, D.D.S. Livonia

Yuksel Jeffrey S. Cohen, D.D.S. West Bloomfield Township Erpardo,

Paul C. Lopez, D.D.S., M.D. Ann Arbor

D.D.S., Ph.D. Sean P. Edwards, D.D.S., M.D. Ann Arborfor Implant Center

Jeffery A. McFadden, D.D.S. Livonia

Dentistry & Oral Surgery 28124 Orchard Lake Rd., Ste. 100 Farmington Hills, MI 48334 248-702-6622 info@c4implantdentistry.com drerpardo.com Anthony C. Fasi, D.D.S., M.D. Ann Arbor Robert B. Felsenfeld, D.D.S. Dearborn Norbert E. Fernandez, D.D.S. Ann Arbor Adam Fisher, D.M.D. Eastpointe

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Maurizio Mirabelli, D.D.S. Chesterfield Jack F. Moores, D.D.S. Livonia Ronald P. Morris, D.D.S. Wyandotte Brian C. Murphy, D.D.S. West Bloomfield Gregory M. Nielsen, D.D.S., M.S. Huntington Woods Derek Nykiel, D.D.S., M.D. Bingham Farms Leslie Orzech, D.M.D. Waterford

Dexter K. Flemming, D.D.S., M.S. Southgate

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Claude LeRose, D.D.S., M.D. Warren

Susan H. Abed, D.D.S., M.S. Brownstown Philip Badalamenti, D.D.S. St. Clair Shores Edward D. Bayleran, D.D.S. Bingham Farms Marsha Beattie, D.D.S., M.S. West Bloomfield Township Mark Berkman, D.D.S., M.S. Commerce Township Mark A. Bieszki, D.D.S., M.S. Macomb Township Jennifer Bonamici, D.D.S. Novi

Ed Essayan, D.D.S., M.S.

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Gregory Hummon, D.D.S., M.S. Birmingham Rodney Hyduk, D.D.S., M.S.D. Troy Amy Isenberg, D.D.S., M.S. West Bloomfield Township

Nicole M. Jane, D.D.S., M.S.

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THE LIST Top Dentists Brynn Jezdimir, D.D.S. St. Clair Shores Thomas D. Jusino, D.D.S. Farmington Hills

G. Michael Kabot, D.D.S., M.S.

Spillane & Reynolds Orthodontics 4299 Orchard Lake Rd., Ste. 196 West Bloomfield, MI 48323 248-344-8400 info@myamazingsmile.com myamazingsmile.com

Kabot Orthodontics 655 W. 14 Mile Rd. Ste. 200 Clawson, MI 48017 248-280-2944 kabotoffice@sbcglobal.net kabodontics.com

Jacob G. Schering, D.D.S., M.S. Birmingham

Zvi Kennet, D.M.D., M.S. Macomb Township

Randall L. Shaw, D.D.S., M.S. Southfield

Alan J. Ker, D.D.S., M.S. Clinton Township William Krieg, D.D.S. St. Clair Shores Maureen Kuhta, D.M.D. Bloomfield Hills Michael L. Lanzetta, D.D.S. Taylor John A. Lazarus, D.D.S., M.S. Waterford John J. Lupini, D.D.S, M.S. Wyandotte Nawaf Masri, D.D.S., M.S. Livonia Jennifer K. Mertz, D.D.S., M.S. Grosse Pointe Woods Charles F. Munk, D.D.S. Clarkston Charles W. Munk, D.D.S., M.S. Clarkston Andrea Nakisher, D.D.S. Farmington Hills Patrick J. Nolan, D.D.S., M.S. Canton Kenneth A. Norwick, D.D.S. Dearborn Nick S. Palmer, D.D.S., M.S., PC Sterling Heights Valmy Pangrazio-Kulbersh, D.D.S., M.S. Sterling Heights Niyati Patel-Parekh, D.M.D., M.D.S. Troy Jerek Petrous, D.D.S., M.S. Royal Oak Nicholas Rafaill, D.D.S. Shelby Township

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James Reynolds, D.D.S., M.S.

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Natalie Datien, D.D.S. Southgate

David Vazquez, D.D.S. Dearborn

James Delaney III, D.D.S. Waterford

Christopher Walsh, D.D.S. Clarkston

Molly Doyle, D.D.S. Dearborn

Cari M. Zupko, D.D.S., M.S. Beverly Hills

Naila Farooq, D.D.S. Commerce Township

Periodontics

Renee Fraser, D.D.S. Clinton Township

Patrick Ainslie, D.D.S., M.S. Bloomfield Hills

Jason Golnick, D.D.S. Taylor

A. G. Alsaidi, D.D.S., M.S. Southfield

Noam Greenbaum, D.D.S. Taylor

Lauren Anderson, D.D.S., M.S. Bloomfield Hills

Kerri S. Gustafson, D.D.S. Roseville

Prasanna-Kumar Shivapuja, B.D.S., M.D.S., D.D.S., M.S. Roseville

Shabnam Behdin, D.D.S., M.S.D. Eastpointe

Dawn Yuen Harvey, D.D.S, M.S. Grosse Pointe Woods

Monish Bhola, D.D.S., M.S.D. Plymouth

Brandon Shoukri, D.D.S., M.S. Dexter

Danny Kalash, D.M.D. West Bloomfield Township

Suheil Michael Boutros, D.D.S., M.S. Clarkston

Mamnoon Siddiqui, D.D.S., M.S. Dearborn

Kara Lehal, D.D.S. Clarkston

Julius Bunek, D.D.S., M.S. Ann Arbor

Lawrence M. Spillane, D.D.S., M.S. Novi

Martin Makowski, D.D.S. Clinton Township

Leyvee Cabanilla-Jacobs, D.D.S., M.S.D. Plymouth

Bradley Stieper, D.D.S. Taylor

Sam Malcheff, D.D.S. Canton

Sandra S. Chang, D.D.S., M.S. Canton

Ari G. Thanasas, D.D.S., M.S. Clinton Township

Ray Maturo, D.D.S. Ann Arbor

David G. Darany, D.D.S., M.S. Dearborn

Howard L. Tingling, D.D.S., M.S. Southfield

Amy B. Maxwell, D.D.S. Novi

Linda L. Dobis, D.D.S. Dearborn

Scott A. Tyler, D.D.S., M.S. Birmingham

Amy C. Parker, D.D.S., M.S. Southfield

Omar El-Banhawy, D.D.S., M.S., FICOI Royal Oak

Algirdas Vaitas, D.M.D. Birmingham

Dana Radtke, D.D.S., F.A.A.P.D. Brighton

Mark E. Frenchi, D.D.S., M.S. Clarkston

Gerald M. Wesley, D.D.S., M.S. Chesterfield

Curt Ralstrom, D.D.S., M.S. Clinton Township

Robert K. Wesley, D.D.S. Richmond

Elizabeth Ralstrom, D.D.S., M.S. Clinton Township

Nicole S. Wright, D.D.S., M.S. Plymouth

Swati M. Rastogi, D.D.S. Novi

Robert Ziaja, D.D.S., M.S. Macomb

Jocelyn M. Robelli, D.D.S., M.S., PLLC Roseville

Pediatric Dentistry

Angela M. Rogers, D.D.S., M.S. Southfield

Michael Haddow, D.D.S. Lathrup Village

Samuel Blanchard, D.D.S. Taylor

Megan E. Stowers, D.D.S. West Bloomfield

Shelia Kennebrew Horton, D.D.S., M.S. Southfield

James R. Boynton, D.D.S., M.S. Ann Arbor

Stacy Sullivan, D.D.S., M.S. Chesterfield

Mark S. Isler, D.D.S. Farmington Hills

Daniel Briskie, D.D.S. Rochester Hills

Arnold Tracht, D.D.S. Rochester Hills

Darnell Kaigler Jr., D.D.S., M.S., Ph.D. Detroit

Andreina Castro, D.D.S., M.S. Taylor

Joseph C. Tuazon, D.D.S. Sterling Heights

Mitchell D. Kaplan, D.D.S., Ph.D. Ann Arbor

Lainie Shapiro, D.D.S., M.S. Commerce Township

Hana Gadalla, D.D.S., M.S.

Livonia Family Smiles 16979 Farmington Rd. Livonia, MI 48154 734-338-7140 concierge@livoniafamilysmiles.com LivoniaFamilySmiles.com

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Top Dentists THE LIST

Amar Katranji, D.D.S., M.S. Joseph R. Nemeth, D.D.S. & Associates 29829 Telegraph Rd. Ste. 111 Southfield, MI 48034 248-357-3100 info@drnemeth.com drnemeth.com

Bassam M. Kinaia, D.D.S., M.S., DICOI Sterling Heights Shilpa Kolhatkar, D.D.S., M.D.S. Plymouth

Michael S. Wojcik, D.D.S., M.S. Clinton Township

Fredrick Matvias, D.M.D, M.S. Troy

Steve L. Wolf, D.D.S., F.A.C.S. Novi

Ajay Ojha, D.D.S. Sterling Heights

Joanne Yihan, D.D.S., M.S. Rochester Hills

Richard J. Persiani, D.D.S. West Bloomfield

Mark D. Zahn, D.D.S., M.S. Ann Arbor

Jennifer Wiens Priebe, D.D.S., M.S., F.A.C.P. West Bloomfield

Samir F. Zakaria, D.D.S, M.S.D.

Peter Leone, D.D.S, M.S. Clinton Township

Periodontics & Dental Implants Diplomate, American Board of Periodontology 37619 Pembroke Ave. Livonia, MI 48152 734-542-9904 zakariaperio.com

Thomas McLean, D.D.S. Farmington Hills

Aaron Zeevi, D.D.S, M.S. Huntington Woods

Stephen J. Meraw, D.D.S., M.S. Warren

Laura Zetu, D.D.S., M.S. Rochester Hills

Lloyd W. Lariscy, D.D.S. Dearborn

Kelly A. Misch, D.D.S., M.S. Ann Arbor

Yasser Alali, D.D.S. Dearborn

Joseph R. Nemeth, D.D.S., M.A.C.S.

David Bartolovic, D.D.S., M.S.D. Ferndale

Alexandra B. Plonka, D.D.S., M.S. Grosse Pointe Woods Michael Ramos, D.D.S. Rochester Hills Abdullah Sayed, D.D.S., M.S. Birmingham Lindsey Steele, D.D.S., M.S. Farmington Hills Jacob Steiger, D.D.S., M.S. Farmington Hills Patrick L. Sweeney, D.D.S., M.S. Eastpointe Lauren M. Syrowik, D.D.S., M.S. Dearborn Paul VanRaaphorst, D.D.S. Rochester Hills Whitney D. Weiner, D.D.S., M.S. Eastpointe

Robert Stewart, D.D.S., M.S. Grosse Pointe Woods Sharitha V. Uchil, B.D.S., M.D.S. Livonia Jonathan P. Wiens, D.D.S. M.S.D., F.A.C.P. West Bloomfield

Prosthodontics

Anthony L. Neely, D.D.S. Southfield

Joseph R. Nemeth, D.D.S. & Associates 29829 Telegraph Rd., Ste. 111 Southfield, MI 48034 248-357-3100 info@drnemeth.com drnemeth.com

Stephen J. Riedy, D.D.S., M.S., F.A.C.P. Plymouth

Benjamin Czerniawski, D.D.S., M.S. Grosse Pointe Woods Andrew N. Dill, D.D.S., M.S. Ann Arbor Chady A. Elhage, D.D.S., M.S. Royal Oak Furat M. George, D.D.S. Farmington Hills Emily Giroux, D.D.S. Sterling Heights Michael P. Girskis, D.D.S., M.S. Livonia Douglas A. Henke, D.D.S., M.S. Farmington Hills Rami Jandali, D.M.D., M.S. Southfield Darnell Kaigler Sr., D.D.S., M.S. Detroit Jesse Kane, D.D.S., M.S. Ann Arbor Lisa Kane, D.D.S., M.S. Bloomfield Hills Neil L. Matthews, D.D.S., M.S. Rochester Hills

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THE LIST Top Chiropractors

Top Chiropractors How many times have you heard friends say that they only got relief from their back problem after they saw a chiropractor? They’ve tried medication, back-strengthening exercises, injections, and maybe even surgery. Yet once they were under the care of a chiropractor, their whole outlook changed. Hour Detroit — with the help of Professional Research Services (PRS) — has gathered a list of the best chiropractic care professionals in metro Detroit.

The Top Chiropractors list is based on a peer-review survey conducted by PRS, where participants cast votes honoring excellence in chiropractic services.

Chiropractors who have a photo with their listing made the Top Chiropractors list and have also paid for this enhanced listing.

Nichole C. Anderson Eight Mile Chiropractic Clinic Detroit Amanda Apfelblat Michigan Chiropractic Specialists Garden City Bryan A. Baetens Baetens Chiropractic Center St. Clair Shores

Nicholas Binder Duncan Chiropractic Group Brighton Robert Borer Borer Family Chiropractic Saline Jeff Bosman Bosman Chiropractic Auburn Hills Nicole Brady Dr. Nicole Brady DC Plymouth

Andrew A. Bajaj Total Health Systems Center Line

Donald Bretz Organic Approach Chiropractic & Wellness Clinton Township

Jacob Baldwin Michigan Complete Chiropractic & Rehab Canton

Christopher Brioc Metropolitan Chiropractic Clinic Clinton Township Davis Brockenshire Innovative Health Solutions Plymouth

Erik Barazsu OmniKinetics Birmingham Lisa Bell Advanced Health Chiropractic Troy Jamie Bell Advanced Health Chiropractic Troy

William Bender Bender Chiropractic Health & Vitality Center Clinton Township Tom Bender Bender Chiropractic Health & Vitality Center Clinton Township David A. Betts Henry Ford Center for Athletic Medicine Detroit

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Steven Brown Northwood Chiropractic Clinic Royal Oak Jeffrey E. Buller Buller Chiropractic Clinic Rochester Hills

Tonya Beltran Total Health Systems St. Clair Shores

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Michael J. Brown Brown Chiropractic Sterling Heights

Bradley Burgess Quantum Chiropractic and Massage Royal Oak Mike Cameron Wyandotte Chiropractic Clinic Wyandotte Mark Campbell HealthQuest of Farmington Farmington Daniel Casselman Harbor Family Chiropractic Center Keego Harbor

William Clugston Clugston Chiropractic Center Livonia Solomon Cogan HealthQuest of Farmington Farmington Matthew Cohen Madison Heights Chiropractic Center Madison Heights Jessica Cohen Utica Chiropractic Clinic, PC Utica Mark Cohen Utica Chiropractic Clinic, PC Utica John Conflitti Madison Heights Chiropractic Center Madison Heights Navpreet Conn Café of LIFE Chiropractic Fenton Kyle Conn Lifetime Family Chiropractic Brighton Jeffrey A. Conn Pointe Village Chiropractic Clinton Township Eric Conner Porter & Clark Chiropractic Flat Rock William S. Cook Cook Chiropractic Clinic Shelby Township Ryan C. Cooper Health for Life Chiropractic Northville Nicole Cousineau Cousineau Chiropractic Riverview Jamie L. Cramer Precise Chiropractic Troy

Brooke Crandall Endeavor Chiropractic Livonia Christine Crawford Crawford Chiropractic Clinic Grosse Ile Ronda Dalton Healing Rhythm Chiropractic Center Rochester Hills Christophe Dean Dean Chiropractic Berkley Jon Dean Dean Chiropractic Berkley Bridget A. Devlin-Smith Claddagh Chiropractic Wellness Center Ferndale Robert Dotto Dotto Family Chiropractic PLLC Livonia Eric Duncan The Wellness Doc of Birmingham Birmingham Derek Elwart Elwart Family Chiropractic Clinton Township Francis Elwart Total Health Systems Chesterfield Chris Emmert Claddagh Chiropractic Wellness Center Ferndale Joseph Estrada Great Lakes Chiropractic Sterling Heights Jeffrey E. Fantich Chiropractic & Integrative Health Specialists PLLC West Bloomfield Daniel Farkas Back to Health Chiropractic Center Troy

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Top Chiropractors THE LIST Jeffrey Featherston Featherston Chiropractic Westland

Dan Herman Dr. James Herman PLLC Bloomfield

Joel Kirsch Birmingham Chiropractic Clinic Birmingham

Jeffrey Lupo Lupo Chiropractic Life Center, P.C. Roseville

Olivia A. Fitch Fitch Chiropractic Allen Park

James Herman Dr. James Herman PLLC Bloomfield

Thomas Klapp First Choice Chiropractic of Ann Arbor Ann Arbor

Joseph Lupo Lupo Chiropractic Life Center, P.C. Roseville

Cecil I. Forbes Jr. iCare Spine and Rehabilitation Center Detroit

Jason Hilla Total Health Systems Clinton Township

James E. Kraft Kraft Chiropractic Troy

Chelsea Markus Hauswirth Chelsea Markus D.C. PLLC Rochester

Tucker Ford Get Well Chiropractic Northville

Raymond Hillenbrand PRO Chiropractic Beverly Hills

Mark Kraft Kraft Chiropractic Center Warren

Ken McCauley McCauley Chiropractic Rochester

Stacie Ford Get Well Chiropractic Northville

Michael Hilton Duncan Chiropractic Group Brighton

Paul C. Kraft Kraft Chiropractic Clinic Rochester Hills

David McFadden Bath City Chiropractic Clinic Clinton Township

Peter Fox Precise Chiropractic Troy

Linda Holland Henry Ford Medical Center Dearborn

Ryan Mercier Duncan Chiropractic Group Brighton

Joshan George Total Health Systems Clinton Township

Gregory Kramer Kramer Chiropractic - Livonia Spine & Injury Livonia

Jennifer Hudson Total Health Systems Washington

Charles Gilcher Gilcher Chiropractic Life Center Lincoln Park

Kenneth Hughes Hughes Chiropractic Dearborn Heights

Herman Glass Glass Chiropractic Detroit

Bernard E. Hughey III Hughey Chiropractic Clinic Westland

Daniel S. Gordon Gordon Chiropractic West Bloomfield

Rodney Hulbert A Place To Grow Chiropractic Rochester Hills

William Goss Goss Chiropractic Clinics Sterling Heights

Michael O. Husmillo Optimum Chiropractic Neurology Center Troy

Amy D. Gramzow Gramzow Chiropractic and Wellness Clinton Township

John Johr BodyMind Network Center, Pllc.

Rochester Hills

R. James Gregg Gregg Chiropractic Life Centers Garden City

Kevin Jonca Duncan Chiropractic Group Brighton

Sean Gregory Canton Center Chiropractic Clinic Canton

Ray Kaminski Health Choice Chiropractic Clinton Township

Michael Greiner Spinal Recovery Center Warren

Dennis R. Kash Rochester Hills Chiropractor Rochester Hills

John Grgicak Progressive Chiropractic Royal Oak

Mark A. Kendall Bay Pointe Chiropractic Commerce

David A. Guzzardo Guzzardo Chiropractic Center Clinton Township

Keith J. Khalil Khalil Family Chiropractic Eastpointe

Michael Hanselman Precise Chiropractic Troy

Sarah Kirsch Balanced Health & Wellness Berkley

Kyle Hawkins Siegel Chiropractic Woodhaven

David Kirsch Birmingham Chiropractic Clinic Birmingham

Bradley Krawczyk Back and Body Chiropractic Center Shelby Township Nathan Kruse Innovative Health Solutions Plymouth Corey Laber Duncan Chiropractic Group Brighton Heidi M. LaBo LaBo Family Chiropractic Dearborn Jonathan Lazar Lazar Spinal Care, P.C. Ann Arbor Ellen M. Lazar North Bridge Chiropractic Northville Adam Leibinger Duncan Chiropractic Group Brighton Robert Levine Levine Clinic of Chiropractic Farmington Hills Richard Levine Levine Clinic of Chiropractic Farmington Hills Lanny B. Lipson Chiropractic Associates of Michigan Warren Marc Lukosavich Lukosavich Chiropractic Center Shelby Township Ryan Lukowski Lukowski Family Chiropractic Fraser Aaron Lundgaard Total Health Systems Clinton Township

Kevin Michalak Duncan Chiropractic Group Brighton Rose Minkiewicz Total Health Systems Chesterfield Eric Mintz Synergy Chiropractic West Bloomfield Frank Miramonti Miramonti Chiropractic, PLLC Mount Clemens Lawrence Morabito II Canton Family Chiropractic Canton Dana Mosure-Judge Oakland Sports Chiropractic Lake Orion Kevin Naborczyk Optimum Chiropractic Lake Orion Jason Naborczyk Optimum Chiropractic Lake Orion Katrina Nicholson HealthQuest of Grand Blanc Grand Blanc Laura Nicholson Rochester Family Chiropractic Rochester Hills Kevin O’Dell O’Dell Family Chiropractic Lathrup Village Amy Olson StayWell Chiropractic Novi Lisa Olszewski Precision Spinal Care Chelsea

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THE LIST Top Chiropractors Lanny E. Orr Henry Ford Medical Center Bloomfield

Ruvayn Rubinstein Thrive Chiropractic Troy

Jesse Snider Total Health Systems Clinton Township

Jennifer Warren Allen Park Family Chiropractic Allen Park

Neelam Patel Total Health Systems Chesterfield

Sara Rubinstein Triumph Chiropractic Livonia

Nicholas Solverson Duncan Chiropractic Group Livonia

Timothy Wasmund Purdy Chiropractic Team Rochester

Paula L. Ruffin New Hudson Chiropractic Wellness Center, P.C. New Hudson

Todd Sonquist Correct Care Family Chiropractic Livonia

Sara Whedon A Place To Grow Chiropractic Rochester Hills

Adeela Peer, D.C.

Peer Chiropractic Wellness Center 3950 S. Rochester Rd., Ste. 2450 Rochester Hills 248-396-7426 contact@peerchiro.com peerchiro.com

James Rugenski Rugenski Family Chiropractic Clinic Dearborn BJ Rumph Rumph Chiropractic Clinic Waterford

Elisabeth Steczek Complete Care Chiropractic Clinic Warren Tyler Stewart LaBo Chiropractic Dearborn Rubina A. Tahir HealthQuest of Livonia Livonia

Derek Pehur Pehur Chiropractic Center Shelby Township

Becky Rumph-Pender Rumph Chiropractic Clinic Waterford

Cara Phillips Porter & Clark Chiropractic Flat Rock

Keith Sarver Lazar Spinal Care, P.C. Ann Arbor

John Pispidikis Spinal Recovery Center Warren

Anna Saylor Van Every Family Chiropractic Center Royal Oak

Danielle P. Potter Canton Center Chiropractic Clinic Canton

Heather Schueler O’Dell Family Chiropractic Lathrup Village

Robert E. Potter Canton Center Chiropractic Clinic Canton

Gary Sclabassi Oakland Chiropractic Clinic Walled Lake

Lisa A. Price Dr. Lisa A. Price, D.C., P.C. Roseville

Nicholas Sclabassi StayWell Chiropractic Novi

Jeffrey K. Rauch Rauch Chiropractic Life Center Sterling Heights

Kent Semlow Semlow Chiropractic Clinic Macomb

Charles Reid Reid Chiropractic Clinic Rochester Hills

Joe Shusteric Achieve Health & Performance, PLLC Southgate

Donald Reno Reno Chiropractic Center, P.C. Sterling Heights

Caitlin Siegel Siegel Chiropractic Woodhaven

Ashley Rich Balanced Health & Wellness Berkley

Scott Siegel Siegel Chiropractic Woodhaven

Jaime Vande Veegaete All Pointes Chiropractic Clinic Grosse Pointe

Craig Riffel Metropolitan Chiropractic Clinic Clinton Township

Michelle Slagle Slagle Family Wellness Center Shelby Township

Scott W. Vande Veegaete Lakepointe Chiropractic Clinic Grosse Pointe Woods

Adam Rodnick Rodnick Chiropractic Commerce Township

Karen Slota Soft Tissues Solutions Farmington Hills

Laura Vanloon Synergy Wellness Birmingham

Neil Rodnick Rodnick Chiropractic Commerce Township

Thomas G. Smith Chiropractic Associates of Michigan Warren

Demerius L. Ware ChiroOne Centers of Michigan Southfield

Alex Rodnick Triumph Chiropractic Livonia

Joseph Smola Dynamic Health Chiropractic Novi

David A. Waring Health Link Chiropractic Clinic, P.C. Sterling Heights

R. E. Tent Diverse Health Services PLLC Novi

Andrea Whedon-Hulbert Holistically Well Birmingham James J. Woda Back Wellness Center PC Dearborn Ryan Yanez Semlow Chiropractic Troy Rasha Zora Balanced Health & Wellness Berkley

Pam Tomaszycki Total Health Systems Clinton Township Sean M. Totten Birmingham Chiropractic Clinic Birmingham Jessie Trudgeon HealthQuest Chiropractic of Munising Munising Marisa Twiner Allen Park Family Chiropractic Allen Park

Stephen Upchurch

Upchurch Chiropractic 2436 Rochester Rd. Royal Oak 248-545-8550 renchiro@msn.com upchurchchiropractic.com

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Senior Service Directory THE LIST

Senior Services Aging means having to make adjustments to fit evolving needs at each stage of life. Hour Detroit’s Senior Services directory includes resources for seniors in metro Detroit and their care takers. Facilities and trained professionals in the area offer a wide array of senior services, from basic supervision to specialized medical care. Because everyone’s needs are different, the listings below are broken down by type and level of care, ensuring that you and your family members receive the ideal form of assistance.

INDEPENDENT LIVING

This model of care affords seniors the greatest amount of flexibility over their daily schedules. The facilities, which often take the form of apartment complexes, generally provide seniors with basic services like meals, laundry, and supervision.

They foster a community-oriented atmosphere and often provide programs for social engagement.

LIVINGSTON Brookdale Brighton

833 E. Grand River Ave., Brighton; 810-229-9190. brookdale.com

Oakhaven Manor

1320 Ashebury Ln., Howell; 517-548-9870. oakhavenmanor.com

Village Manor Retirement

9501 E. Highland Rd., Howell; 810-632-6200. vmretirement.com

MACOMB American House East I

17255 Common Rd., Roseville; 586-298-3121. americanhouse.com

American House East II

Baldwin House Lakeside

All Seasons of Birmingham

Northpoint Village of Utica

All Seasons of Rochester Hills

15731 19 Mile Rd., Clinton Twp.; 586-913-8038 baldwinhouseseniors.com 45201 Northpointe Blvd., Utica; 586-739-9545. npointvillage.com

The Orchards - Armada

22600 W. Main St., Armada; 586-784-5322. thevillagerehab.com

Pine Ridge of Garfield

36333 Garfield Rd., Clinton Twp.; 586-723-0000. pineridgegarfield.com

Pine Ridge of Hayes

43707 Hayes Rd., Sterling Heights; 586-247-0901. pineridgehayes.com

Pine Ridge of Plumbrook

8350 Plumbrook Rd., Sterling Heights; 586-274-2500. pineridgeplumbrook.com

Pine Ridge Villas of Shelby

4200 W. Utica Rd., Shelby Twp.; 586-739-5520. pineridgeshelby.com

Rose Senior Living

111 Elm St., Birmingham; 248-566-6486. allseasonsbirmingham.com

175 E. Nawakwa Rd., Rochester Hills; 248-841-4478. allseasonsrochesterhills.com

All Seasons of West Bloomfield 5600 Drake Rd., West Bloomfield; 248-841-8001. allseasonswestbloomfield.com

American House Milford

700 Napa Valley Dr., Milford; 248-714-7073. americanhouse.com

American House Elmwood

2251 W. Auburn Rd., Rochester Hills; 248-327-0497. americanhousemi.com

American House Stone

3741 S. Adams Rd., Rochester Hills; 248-257-4011. americanhousemi.com

American House Troy

2300 Grand Haven Dr., Troy; 248-436-4621. americanhouse.com

18760 13 Mile Rd., Roseville; 586-298-3114. americanhouse.com

44003 Partridge Creek Blvd., Clinton Twp.; 586-840-0840. roseseniorliving.com

American House The Village

American House Lakeshore

Shorehaven

American House West Bloomfield

28801 Jefferson Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-218-6228. americanhouse.com

American House Park Place

29250 Heritage Pkwy., Warren; 586-298-3129. americanhouse.com

American House Sterling Heights 11255 15 Mile Rd., Sterling Heights; 586-298-3117. americanhouse.com

American House Sterling Meadows

33433 Schoenherr Rd., Sterling Heights; 586-298-3137. americanhouse.com

American House Sterling Woods 36430 Van Dyke Ave., Sterling Heights; 586-480-1403. americanhouse.com

14560 Lakeside Cr., Sterling Heights; 586-803-0900. shorehavenseniorliving.com

Town Village Sterling Heights

4500 Dobry Dr., Sterling Heights; 586-803-0900. townvillagesterlingheights.com

Villa Bella of Clinton Township

3617 S. Adams Rd., Rochester Hills; 248-327-3554. americanhouse.com 5859 W. Maple Rd., West Bloomfield; 248-436-4085. americanhouse.com

Baldwin House Birmingham 200 Chester St., Birmingham; 248-971-0956. baldwinhouseseniors.com

Baldwin House Oakland

15894 19 Mile Rd., Clinton Twp.; 888-792-3552. villa-bella.net

1915 Baldwin Ave., Pontiac; 248-209-1728. baldwinhouseseniors.com

Waltonwood Lakeside

The Baptist Manor

14750 Lakeside Cr., Sterling Heights; 586-232-5848. waltonwood.com

OAKLAND Abbey Park at Mill River

28413 Abbey Ln., New Hudson; 248-437-6550. abbeypark.com

30301 W. 13 Mile Rd., Farmington Hills; 248-626-6100. thebaptistmanor.org

Brookdale Farmington Hills

36550 Grand River Ave., Farmington Hills; 248-236-5603. brookdale.com

Brookdale Novi

45182 W. Park Dr., Novi; 248-236-5625. brookdale.com

Brookdale Southfield

25800 W. 11 Mile Rd., Southfield; 248-230-4908. brookdale.com

Canterbury-on-the-Lake

5601 Hatchery Rd., Waterford; 877-284-4698. canterburyonthelake.com

Cedarbrook of Bloomfield Hills 41150 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills; 248-955-4956. cedarbrookofbloomfieldhills.com

Elmhaven Manor

600 W. Walton Blvd., Pontiac; 248-451-1370. elmhavenmanor.com

Halsted Place

29451 Halsted Rd., Farmington Hills; 248-489-8988. halstedplace.com

Hechtman Apartments

6690 W. Maple Rd., West Bloomfield; 248-661-1836. jslmi.org

The Inn at Cass Lake

900 N. Cass Lake Rd., Waterford; 844-423-4576. holidaytouch.com

Meer Apartments

6760 W. Maple Rd., West Bloomfield; 248-661-1836. jslmi.org

The Park at Franklin

28301 Franklin Rd., Southfield; 248-353-2810. parkatfranklin.com

The Park at Trowbridge

24111 Civic Center Dr., Southfield; 248-352-0208. parkattrowbridge.com

Park House Southfield

27577 Lahser Rd., Southfield; 248-397-0124. parkhousesouthfield.com

Pomeroy Orion

101 E. Scripps Rd., Orion Charter Twp.; 248-621-3100. pomeroyorion.com

Rose Senior Living at Providence Park

47400 Heritage Dr., Novi; 248-513-8900. roseseniorliving.com

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Samaritas Affordable Living

Angel Gardens Assisted Living

Samaritas Senior Living of Bloomfield Hills

Atria Kinghaven

2566 Walton Blvd., Rochester Hills; 248-375-1810. samaritas.org

6257 Telegraph Rd., Bloomfield Hills; 248-723-6275. samaritas.org

The Village of Royal Oak

3442 Devon Rd., Royal Oak; 248-629-7392.

Waltonwood at Twelve Oaks

27475 Huron Cr., Novi; 248-567-2074. waltonwood.com

Waltonwood at University

3250 Walton Blvd., Rochester Hills; 248-266-6924. waltonwood.com

WASHTENAW American House Carpenter

3470 Carpenter Rd., Ypsilanti; 734-961-4578. americanhouse.com

Brecon Village

200 Brecon Dr., Saline; 734-429-1155. ehmsolutions.org

Brookhaven Manor

38910 Six Mile Rd., Livonia; 734-464-2772. angelgardensassistedliving.com

14800 King Rd., Riverview; 734-301-4229. atriaseniorliving.com

Beaumont Commons - Dearborn 16351 Rotunda Dr., Dearborn; 800-642-HOME (4663). beaumontcommonsdearborn.org

Cedarbrook of Northville

15700 Haggerty Rd., Plymouth; 248-468-1954. cedarbrookofnorthville.com

Maple Heights

4600 Allen Rd., Allen Park; 313-307-4718. maplehts.com

Parkside of Livonia

28815 Jamison St., Livonia; 734-522-1151. parksideoflivonia.com

The Village of Westland

32001 Cherry Hill Rd., Westland; 734-728-5222. pvm.org

401 W. Oakbrook Dr., Ann Arbor; 734-747-8800. brookhavenmanorapartments.com

Waltonwood at Carriage Park

WAYNE Allegria Village

Waltonwood at Cherry Hill

15101 Ford Rd., Dearborn; 877-660-1807. allegriavillage.com

American House Dearborn Heights

26600 Ann Arbor Trail, Dearborn Heights; 313-202-9914. americanhouse.com

American House Grosse Pointe 161 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe Farms; 313-228-4090. americanhouse.com

American House Livonia

11525 Farmington Rd., Livonia; 734-447-5029. americanhouse.com

American House Riverview

20300 Fort St., Riverview; 734-720-1159. americanhouse.com

American House Southgate

2000 N. Canton Center Rd., Canton; 734-335-0940. waltonwood.com 42600 Cherry Hill Rd., Canton; 734-355-1102. waltonwood.com

Westhaven Manor

34601 Elmwood St., Westland; 734-799-0014. havenmanors.com

ASSISTED LIVING

These residences can vary from apartment-style complexes to singlehome accommodations. In addition to providing basic services like meals, laundry, and housekeeping, these centers are also equipped to provide personalized care, including dressing and bathing. Many of these facilities also provide services for residents with memory issues, including Alzheimer’s disease.

LIVINGSTON Ashley Court of Brighton

16333 Allen Rd., Southgate; 734-720-9285. americanhouse.com

7400 Challis Rd., Brighton; 810-225-7400. ashleycourtofbrighton.com

American House Southland

Brookdale Brighton

25250 Eureka Rd., Taylor; 734-720-1160. americanhouse.com

American House Westland Hunter

Hidden Creek

35700 Hunter Ave., Westland; 734-447-5037. americanhouse.com

American House Westland Joy

39201 Joy Rd., Westland; 734-961-4695. americanhouse.com

American House Westland Venoy 1660 S. Venoy Rd., Westland; 734-961-4782. americanhouse.com

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833 E. Grand River Ave., Brighton; 810-207-5210. brookdale.com 2848 Hartland Rd., Hartland; 810-923-9601. hiddencreekafc.com

Village Manor Retirement

9501 E. Highland Rd., Howell; 810-632-6200. vmretirement.com

MACOMB The Orchards - Armada Village

22600 W. Main St., Armada; 586-784-5322. theorchardsmi.com

American House East I

Shorehaven

American House East II

ShorePointe Village

17255 Common Rd., Roseville; 586-298-3121. americanhouse.com 18760 13 Mile Rd., Roseville; 586-298-3114. americanhouse.com

American House Lakeshore

14560 Lakeside Cr., Sterling Heights; 586-247-3220. atriaseniorliving.com 26101 Jefferson Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-498-4500. shorepointeliving.com

28801 Jefferson Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-218-6228. americanhouse.com

Villa Bella of Clinton Township

American House Park Place

The Village of East Harbor

29250 Heritage Pkwy., Warren; 586-298-3129. americanhouse.com

American House Sterling Heights

11255 15 Mile Rd., Sterling Heights; 586-298-3117. americanhouse.com

American House Sterling Meadows 33433 Schoenherr Rd., Sterling Heights; 586-298-3137. americanhouse.com

American House Sterling Woods

36430 Van Dyke, Sterling Heights; 586-480-1403. americanhouse.com

15894 19 Mile Rd., Clinton Twp.; 888-792-3552. villa-bella.net 33875 Kiely Dr., Chesterfield; 586-725-6030. pvm.org

Waltonwood at Lakeside

14750 Lakeside Cr., Sterling Heights; 586-232-5848. waltonwood.com

OAKLAND Abbey Park at Mill River

28413 Abbey Lane, New Hudson; 248-437-6550. abbeypark.com

American House Farmington Hills

24400 Middlebelt Rd., Farmington Hills; 248-327-3336. americanhouse.com

Arden Courts Memory Care Community

American House Hazel Park

11095 14 Mile Rd., Sterling Heights; 586-795-0998. arden-courts.com

777 E. Woodward Heights Blvd., Hazel Park; 248-397-0114. americanhouse.com

The Arbor Inn

American House Milford

Baldwin House Lakeside

American House Oakland

14030 E. 14 Mile Rd., Warren; 586-296-3260. thearborinn.net 15731 19 Mile Rd., Clinton Twp.; 586-913-8038 baldwinhouseseniors.com

Brookdale Utica

45969 N. Pointe Blvd., Utica; 586-200-4736. brookdale.com

700 Napa Valley Dr., Milford; 248-714-7073. americanhouse.com 1915 Baldwin Ave., Pontiac; 248-209-1728. americanhouse.com

American House Elmwood

2251 W. Auburn Rd., Rochester Hills; 248-327-0497. americanhousemi.com

Church of Christ Assisted Living

American House Freedom Place Rochester

HarborChase of Sterling Heights

American House Stone

Leisure Manor Residence For Seniors

American House The Village

23621 15 Mile Rd., Clinton Twp.; 586-791-2471. cofccc.org

13400 19 Mile Rd., Sterling Heights; 586-932-3406. harborchase.com

68453 Stoecker Ln., Richmond; 586-727-0700. richmondleisuremanor.com

My Doctor’s Inn

8384 Metropolitan Pkwy., Sterling Heights; 586-838-5900. mydoctorsinn.com

Northpoint Village of Utica

45201 Northpointe Blvd., Utica; 586-739-9545. npointvillage.com

Our Place Senior Assisted Living

21725 Ulrich St., Clinton Twp.; 586-588-9238. clintontownshipmiassistedliving.com

Rose Senior Living

44003 Partridge Creek Blvd., Clinton Twp.; 586-840-0840. roseseniorliving.com

3565 S. Adams Rd., Rochester Hills; 248-430-8397. americanhouse.com 3741 S. Adams Rd., Rochester Hills; 248-257-4011. americanhousemi.com 3617 S. Adams Rd., Rochester Hills; 248-327-3554. americanhouse.com

American House Troy

2300 Grand Haven Dr., Troy; 248-436-4621. americanhouse.com

American House West Bloomfield

5859 W. Maple Rd., West Bloomfield; 248-436-4085. americanhouse.com

Arden Courts Memory Care Community

24005 W. 13 Mile Rd., Bingham Farms; 248-644-8100. arden-courts.com

Beaumont Commons Dearborn 16351 Rotunda Dr., Dearborn; 800-642-HOME (4663). beaumontcommonsdearborn.org

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Belmar Oakland

5990 N. Adams Rd., Troy; 248-602-2400. belmaroakland.com

Brookdale Farmington Hills North 27950 Drake Rd., Farmington Hills; 248-489-9362. brookdale.com

Brookdale Troy

4850 Northfield Pkwy, Troy; 844-230-4915. brookdale.com

Brown Memory Care Pavilion

6710 W. Maple Rd., West Bloomfield; 248-661-1836. jslmi.org

Cambrian Senior Living

52365 10 Mile Rd., South Lyon; 248-344-0001. cambrianseniorliving.com

Canterbury-on-the-Lake

5601 Hatchery Rd., Waterford; 877-284-4698. canterburyonthelake.com

Cedarbrook of Bloomfield Hills 41150 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills; 248-955-4956. cedarbrookofbloomfieldhills.com

Chester Street Residence

Haworth Center

Brookdale Ann Arbor

Park House Southfield

Brookdale W. Eisenhower Parkway

30225 W. 13 Mile Rd., Farmington Hills; 248-539-3131. thebaptistmanor.org 27577 Lahser Rd., Southfield; 248-397-0124. parkhousesouthfield.com

Park of Franklin

28301 Franklin Rd., Southfield; 248-353-2810. parkatfranklin.com

Pomeroy Living Orion

101 E. Scripps Rd., Orion Charter Twp.; 248-621-3100. beaconorion.com

Rose Senior Living at Providence Park

47400 Heritage Dr., Novi; 248-513-8900. roseseniorliving.com

Samaritas Senior Living of Bloomfield Hills

6257 Telegraph Rd., Bloomfield Hills; 248-723-6275. samaritas.org

The Sheridan at Birmingham

2400 E. Lincoln St., Birmingham; 248-934-0023. seniorlifestyle.com

1725 Chester St., Royal Oak; 248-439-6800. chesterstreetresidence.com

St. Anne’s Mead

Courtyard Manor of Farmington Hills

Stonecrest of Rochester Hills

29750 Farmington Rd., Farmington Hills; 248-539-0104. courtyardmanormi.com

Coville Assisted Living Apartments and Memory Care Community

15100 W. 10 Mile Rd., Oak Park; 248-661-1836. jslmi.org

Farmington Hills Inn

30350 W. 12 Mile Rd., Farmington Hills; 248-331-9157. farmingtonhillsinn.com

First & Main of Auburn Hills

3051 E. Walton Blvd., Auburn Hills; 866-601-1576. firstandmain.us

First & Main of Bloomfield Township

100 W. Square Lake Rd., Bloomfield Twp.; 866-601-3298. firstandmain.us

16106 W. 12 Mile Rd., Southfield; 248-557-1221. stannesmead.org 1775 S. Rochester Rd., Rochester Hills; 248-266-0356. stonecrestofrochesterhills.com

Stonecrest of Troy

3400 Livernois Rd., Troy; 248-509-5775. stonecrestoftroy.com

Waltonwood at Main

1401 N. Rochester Rd., Rochester; 248-266-0544. waltonwood.com

101 Brecon Dr., Saline; 734-429-1155. ehmsolutions.org

WAYNE Addington Place Memory Care

42010 W. Seven Mile Rd., Northville; 248-916-1935. addingtonplace.com

Allegria Village

15101 Ford Rd., Dearborn; 877-660-1807. allegriavillage.com

American House Livonia

11525 Farmington Rd., Livonia; 734-447-5029. americanhouse.com

American House Dearborn Heights

26600 Ann Arbor Trail, Dearborn Heights; 313-202-9914. americanhouse.com

American House Grosse Pointe

161 Kercheval Ave., Grosse Pointe; 313-228-4090. americanhouse.com

American House Riverview

20300 Fort St., Riverview; 734-720-1159. americanhouse.com

American House Southgate

16333 Allen Rd., Southgate; 734-720-9285. americanhouse.com

American House Westland Hunter

35700 Hunter Ave., Westland; 734-447-5037. americanhouse.com

American House Westland - Joy

39201 Joy Rd., Westland; 734-961-4695. americanhouse.com

American House Westland - Venoy

1660 S. Venoy Rd., Westland; 734-961-4782. americanhouse.com

Angel Gardens Assisted Living 38910 Six Mile Rd., Livonia; 734-464-2772. angelgardensassistedliving.com

Arden Courts Memory Care Community

32500 Seven Mile Rd., Livonia; 248-426-7055. arden-courts.com

Aspen Assisted Living

32406 W. Seven Mile Rd., Livonia; 248-987-4460. aspenalf.com

Atria Kinghaven

14800 King Rd., Riverview; 734-301-4229. atriaseniorliving.com

The Bellaire Senior Living

12621 Hale St., Riverview; 734-283-8000. thebellaire.com

Cedar Woods Assisted Living 44401 I-94 South Service Dr., Belleville; 734-699-2900. cedarwoodsllc.com

Cedarbrook of Northville 15700 N. Haggerty Rd., Plymouth; 248-468-1954. cedarbrookofnorthville.com

Waltonwood at Twelve Oaks

27475 Huron Cr., Novi; 248-567-2074. waltonwood.com

Waltonwood at University

3250 W. Walton Blvd., Rochester Hills; 248-266-6924. waltonwood.com

2500 Martin Pkwy., Commerce Twp.; 866-851-8142. firstandmain.us

3385 Pontiac Lake Rd., Waterford; 248-681-4788. waterfordoaksseniorcare.com

Fleischman Residence/ Blumberg Plaza

WASHTENAW American House Carpenter

Halsted Place

Atria Park of Ann Arbor

HarborChase of Auburn Hills

Brecon Village

3033 N. Squirrel Rd., Auburn Hills; 248-289-7877. harborchase.com

The Memory Support Center at Brecon Village

25250 Eureka Rd., Taylor; 734-720-1160. americanhouse.com

3450 W. 13 Mile Rd., Royal Oak; 248-658-8716. waltonwood.com

Waterford Oaks Senior Care

29451 Halsted Rd., Farmington Hills; 248-489-8988. halstedplace.com

750 W. Eisenhower Pkwy., Ann Arbor; 734-219-3014. brookdale.com

American House Southland

Waltonwood of Royal Oak

First & Main of Commerce Township

6710 W. Maple Rd., West Bloomfield; 248-661-1836. jslmi.org

2190 Ann Arbor - Saline Rd., Ann Arbor; 734-219-3021. brookdale.com

3470 Carpenter Rd., Ypsilanti; 734-961-4578. americanhouse.com 1901 Plymouth Rd., Ann Arbor; 734-508-4569. atriaseniorliving.com 200 Brecon Dr., Saline; 734-429-1155. ehmsolutions.org

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Crystal Creek Assisted Living 8121 N. Lilley Rd., Canton; 734-453-3203. crystalcreekassistedliving.com

Elmcroft of Downriver

19697 Allen Rd., Brownstown Twp.; 734-288-7307. elmcroft.com

Manoogian Manor

15775 Middlebelt Rd., Livonia; 734-522-5780. manoogianmanor.com

Marquette House

36000 Campus Dr., Westland; 734-326-6537. themarquettehouse.com

The Orchards - Redford Village

25330 W. Six Mile Rd., Redford; 313-531-6874. theorchardsmi.com

Plymouth Inn Assisted Living 205 Haggerty Rd., Plymouth; 734-451-0700. plymouthinn.net

PomeroyLiving Northville

OAKLAND Affordable HomeCare

30640 W. 12 Mile Rd., Farmington Hills; 248-419-5010. affordablehomecare.org

Ameristaff Nursing Services

1938 Woodslee Dr., Troy; 248-288-2270. ameristaffservices.com

Angels at Home Care

32781 Middlebelt Rd., Farmington Hills; 877-735-1050. angelsathomecare.com

Assured Home Nursing Services 725 S. Adams Rd., Ste. 258, Birmingham; 248-593-8134. myassuredhomenursing.com

BrightStar Care

37000 Grand River Ave., Ste. 370, Farmington Hills; 248-449-5110. brightstarcare.com

Hannah’s Home Care Inc.

40033 W. Eight Mile Rd., Northville; 248-349-0400. beaconnorthville.com

29488 Woodward Ave., Royal Oak; 248-312-0040. hannahshomecare.com

The Village of Westland

Marisa Home Care

Waltonwood at Carriage Park

Synergy HomeCare

32001 Cherry Hill Rd., Westland; 734-728-5222. pvm.org 2000 N. Canton Center Rd., Canton; 734-335-0940. waltonwood.com

Waltonwood at Cherry Hill

42600 Cherry Hill Rd., Canton; 734-355-1102. waltonwood.com

IN-HOME CARE

The flexibility of this model makes it a suitable option for seniors who need some level of assistance during the day, but who wish to maintain their independence. Caregivers provide basic services such as housekeeping and grocery shopping, or if necessary, medical treatment.

Frequency of care can be tailored to the needs of the individual.

27698 Franklin Rd., Southfield; 248-354-7600. marisahomecare.com 23623 Farmington Rd., Ste. B, Farmington; 248-919-1244. synergyhomecare.com

MACOMB Attendant Care Services of Michigan

31950 23 Mile Rd., New Baltimore; 586-229-9901. accofmi.com

Home Instead Senior Care

51432 Van Dyke Ave., Shelby Twp.; 586-992-0100. homeinstead.com

Pure Home Care Services 31275 Fraser Dr., Fraser; 586-293-2457. purehomecareservices.com

Senior Helpers – Farmington Hills

LIVINGSTON BrightStar Care

2300 Genoa Business Park Dr., Ste. 290, Brighton; 810-225-4000. brightstarcare.com

Classic Home Care Livingston

135 W. North St., Brighton; 810-229-2271. classichomecare.com

Comfort Keepers

903 E. Grand River Ave., Ste. 102, Howell; 810-229-0200. comfortkeepers.com

Home Instead Senior Care

455 E. Grand River Ave., Ste. 102, Brighton; 810-844-2180. homeinstead.com

Visiting Angels

121 W. Grand River Ave., Brighton; 810-844-0210. visitingangels.com

28200 Orchard Lake Rd., Ste. 111, Farmington Hills; 248-270-2220. seniorhelpersmi.com

WASHTENAW LifeChoices

1601 Briarwood Cr., Ste. 400, Ann Arbor; 734-295-9292. lifechoicesathome.org

Shared Services Home Health Care

1601 Briarwood Cr., Ann Arbor; 734-222-4037. ehmsolutions.org

WAYNE Home Instead Senior Care

16013 Middlebelt Rd., Livonia; 734-525-5300. homeinstead.com

Homewatch CareGivers

296 S. Main St., Ste. 203, Plymouth; 877-992-8936. homewatchcaregivers.com

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Stay at Home Senior Care

7000 Roosevelt Ave., Ste. 100 Allen Park; 313-427-3286. stayathomecare.info

HOSPICE

Hospice care provides a compassionate, peaceful, and restful environment for patients during the final stages of terminal illness. These centers offer pain management services, as well as emotional and spiritual support. Bereavement care is frequently offered to family members, as well.

OAKLAND Pomeroy Living Rochester

41150 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills; 248-955-4956. cedarbrookofbloomfieldhills.com

Compassus Hospice

30665 Northwestern Hwy., Ste. 150, Farmington Hills; 248-355-9900. compassus.com

WASHTENAW Arbor Hospice & Palliative Care 2366 Oak Valley Dr., Ann Arbor; 734-662-5999. arborhospice.org

WAYNE Angela Hospice

14100 Newburgh Rd., Livonia; 734-464-7810. angelahospice.org

NURSING/REHAB FACILITIES When the services of a registered nurse are needed, these facilities are ideal. There are various levels of care, ranging from long-term medical supervision to short-term rehabilitation services. Residents receive personalized medical care, as well as basic services like meal preparation and housekeeping.

These facilities offer close supervision of residents.

LIVINGSTON WellBridge of Brighton 2200 Dorr Rd., Howell; 517-947-4400. thewellbridgegroup.com

WellBridge of Pinckney

664 S. Howell St., Pinckney; 734-954-6700. thewellbridgegroup.com

MACOMB Church of Christ Care Center

The Orchards - Armada

22600 W. Main St., Armada; 586-784-5322. theorchardsmi.com

The Orchards - Roseville

25375 Kelly Rd., Roseville; 586-773-6022. theorchardsmi.com

Pomeroy Living Sterling

34643 Ketsin Dr., Sterling Heights; 586-978-2280. pomeroysterling.com

Regency at Shelby Township 7401 22 Mile Rd., Shelby Twp.; 586-580-5500. cienahealthcare.com

Shelby - Beaumont Health & Rehabilitation Center

46100 Schoenherr Rd., Shelby Twp.; 586-566-1100. beaumont.org

ShorePointe - Beaumont Health & Rehabilitation Center 26001 Jefferson Ave., St. Clair Shores; 586-779-7000. beaumont.org

St. Anthony Healthcare Center

31830 Ryan Rd., Warren; 586-977-6700. cienahealthcare.com

Villa at City Center

11700 E. 10 Mile Rd., Warren; 586-759-5960. villaatcitycenter.com

The Village of East Harbor

33875 Kiely Dr., Chesterfield; 586-725-6030. pvm.org

WellBridge of Romeo

375 S. Main St., Romeo; 586-589-3800. thewellbridgegroup.com

OAKLAND Canterbury-on-the-Lake

5601 Hatchery Rd., Waterford; 877-284-4698. canterburyonthelake.com

Cedarbrook of Bloomfield Hills 41150 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills; 248-955-4956. cedarbrookofbloomfieldhills.com

Evergreen - Beaumont Health & Rehabilitation Center 19933 W. 13 Mile Rd., Southfield; 248-203-9000. bahrc.com

Heartland Health Care Center - Oakland

23575 15 Mile Rd., Clinton Twp.; 586-791-2470. cofccc.org

925 W. South Blvd., Troy; 248-729-4400. heartland-manorcare.com

Heartland Health Care Center

Lahser Hills Care Center

38200 Schoenherr Rd., Sterling Heights; 586-274-9044. heartland-manorcare.com

LakePointe Senior Care & Rehab Center

25300 Lahser Rd., Southfield; 248-354-3222. nexcarehealth.com

Marvin and Betty Danto Health Care Center

37700 Harper Ave., Clinton Twp.; 586-468-0827. nexcarehealth.com

6800 W. Maple Rd., West Bloomfield; 248-788-5300. heartland-manorcare.com

Medilodge of Shoreline

Neighborhoods of White Lake

14900 Shoreline Dr., Sterling Heights; 586-247-4700. medilodgeofshoreline.org

10770 Elizabeth Lake Rd., White Lake; 248-618-4100. trinityhealthseniorcommunities.org

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Notting Hill of West Bloomfield

6535 Drake Rd., West Bloomfield; 248-592-2000. cienahealthcare.com

Pomeroy Living Rochester

3500 W. South Blvd., Rochester Hills; 248-852-7800. pomeroyrochester.com

Regency at Waterford

1901 N. Telegraph Rd., Waterford; 248-836-1000. cienahealthcare.com

St. Anne’s Mead

16106 W. 12 Mile Rd., Southfield; 248-557-1221. stannesmead.org

South Lyon Senior Care & Rehab 700 Reynold Sweet Pkwy., South Lyon; 248-437-2048. southlyonscr.com

Villa at Green Lake Estates

6470 Alden Dr., West Bloomfield; 248-363-4121. villaatgreenlakeestates.com

Villa at Silverbell Estates

1255 W. Silverbell Rd., Orion Twp.; 248-391-0900. villaatsilverbellestates.com

WellBridge of Novi

48300 11 Mile Rd., Novi; 248-662-2300. thewellbridgegroup.com

WellBridge of Rochester Hills 252 Meadowfield Dr., Rochester Hills; 248-218-4800. thewellbridgegroup.com

West Bloomfield - Beaumont Health & Rehabilitation Center 6445 W. Maple, West Bloomfield; 248-661-1600. beaumont.com

Whitehall Healthcare Center of Novi

43455 W. 10 Mile Rd., Novi; 248-349-2200. consulatehealthcare.com

Woodward - Beaumont Health & Rehabilitation Center

39312 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills; 248-644-5522. bahrc.com

WASHTENAW Evangelical Home - Saline 440 W. Russell St., Saline; 734-429-9401. ehmsolutions.org

Heartland Health Care Center - Ann Arbor

4701 E. Huron River Dr., Ann Arbor; 734-975-2600. heartland-manorcare.com

Regency at Bluffs Park

355 Huronview Blvd., Ann Arbor; 734-887-8700. cienahealthcare.com

Regency at Whitmore Lake

8633 Main St., Whitmore Lake; 734-449-4431. cienahealthcare.com

Villa at Parkridge

28 S. Prospect St., Ypsilanti; 734-714-5600. villaatparkridge.com

WAYNE Allegria Village

15101 Ford Rd., Dearborn; 877-660-1807. allegriavillage.com

Beaumont Health & Rehabilitation

16391 Rotunda Dr., Dearborn; 313-253-9700. oakwoodcommon.org

Fairlane Senior Care & Rehab Center

15750 Joy Rd., Detroit; 313-273-6850. nexcarehealth.com

Four Chaplains Nursing Care Center

28349 Joy Rd., Westland; 734-261-9500. nexcarehealth.com

Heartland Health Care Center - Allen Park 9150 Allen Rd., Allen Park; 313-386-2150. heartland-manorcare.com

Heartland Health Care Center - Canton 7025 N. Lilley Rd., Canton; 734-394-3100. heartland-manorcare.com

Heartland Health Care Center - Dearborn Heights

26001 Ford Rd., Dearborn Heights; 313-274-4600. heartland-manorcare.com

Heartland Health Care Center - Grosse Pointe Woods 21401 Mack Ave., Grosse Pointe Woods; 586-778-0800. heartland-manorcare.com

Heartland Health Care Center - Livonia 28550 Five Mile Rd., Livonia; 734-427-8270. heartland-manorcare.com

The Orchards - Harper Woods

19840 Harper Ave., Harper Woods; 313-881-9556. theorchardsmi.com

The Orchards - Northwest

16181 Hubbell Ave., Detroit; 313-273-8764. theorchardsmi.com

Regency at Canton

45900 Geddes Rd., Canton; 734-879-4100. cienahealthcare.com

Villa at the Park

111 Ford St., Highland Park; 313-305-6600. villaatthepark.com

Villa at Great Lakes Crossing

22811 W. Seven Mile Rd., Detroit; 313-242-9100. villaatgreatlakescrossing.com

West Oaks Senior Care & Rehab Center

22355 W. Eight Mile Rd., Detroit; 313-255-6450. nexcarehealth.com

NONRESIDENTIAL SERVICES

WASHTENAW Dottie Crim Adult Day & Education Center

101 Brecon Dr., Saline; 734-295-9811. ehmsolutions.org

WAYNE Angel Gardens Assisted Living 38910 Six Mile Rd., Livonia; 734-464-2772. angelgardensassistedliving.com

Plymouth Inn Assisted Living 205 Haggerty Rd., Plymouth; 734-451-0700. plymouthinnassistedliving.com

RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES

Day services are a good alternative for seniors who need supervision during the work week and are often used in tandem with other services like in-home care. These centers provide supervision, meals, and opportunities for seniors to socialize with peers in a safe, monitored setting.

Retirement communities are a great match for seniors who want to maintain an active lifestyle. These communities, which frequently resemble apartment complexes, specialize in promoting social engagement for seniors and typically offer amenities like exercise facilities, transportation, and meals. Rent is generally based on income.

MACOMB SarahCare - Lakeside

LIVINGSTON Oakhaven Manor

13425 19 Mile Rd., Ste. 500, Sterling Heights; 586-731-2273. sarahcare.com

OAKLAND Dorothy & Peter Brown Adult Day Program

Two locations: Southfield, 248-233-4392; West Bloomfield, 248-592-5032. jslmi.org

Adult Day Service - Friendship Club 4315 Andover Rd., Bloomfield Twp.; 248-723-3530. bloomfieldtwp.org

Alzheimer’s Association - Sakwa Day Program

25200 Telegraph Rd., Ste. 100, Southfield; 800-272-3900. alz.org

1320 Ashebury Ln., Howell; 517-548-9870. oakhavenmanor.com

MACOMB Church of Christ Senior Housing 2356 15 Mile Rd., Clinton Twp.; 586-285-7143. cofccc.org

Dunn Family Apartments

8400 Engleman St., Center Line; 800-593-3052. csi.coop

Northpoint Village of Utica

45201 Northpointe Blvd., Utica; 586-739-9545. npointvillage.com

Tivoli Manor Co-op Apartments 28103 Imperial Dr., Warren; 800-593-3052. csi.coop

OAKLAND Abbey Park at Mill River

28413 Abbey Ln., New Hudson; 248-437-6550. abbeypark.com

The Orchards - Redford Village

25330 W. Six Mile Rd., Redford; 313-531-6874. theorchardsmi.com

The Orchards - Samaritan

5555 Conner St., Detroit; 313-344-4100. theorchardsmi.com

The Orchards - Southgate

15400 Trenton Rd., Southgate; 734-284-4620. theorchardsmi.com

The Orchards - Wayne

4427 Venoy Rd., Wayne; 734-729-4436. theorchardsmi.com

OakPointe Senior Care & Rehab Center

18901 Meyers Rd., Detroit; 313-864-8481. nexcarehealth.com

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Barton Towers Co-op Apartments

Pontiac Village Estates Co-op Apartments

Dearborn Heights Co-op Apartments

Rio Vista Detroit Co-op Apartments

Brookdale Troy

Royal Oak Manor Co-op Apartments

Ecorse Manor Co-op Apartments

Riverview Co-op Apartments

Flat Rock Towers Co-op Apartments

Southgate Co-op Apartments

333 N. Troy St., Royal Oak; 800-593-3052. csi.coop 4850 Northfield Pkwy, Troy; 844-230-4915. brookdale.com

Canterbury-on-the-Lake

1200 Colony Ln., Pontiac; 800-593-3052. csi.coop

606 Williams St., Royal Oak; 800-593-3052. csi.coop

5601 Hatchery Rd., Waterford; 877-284-4698. canterburyonthelake.com

Samaritas Affordable Living

Cedarbrook of Bloomfield Hills

The Village of Oakland Woods

41150 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills; 248-955-4956. cedarbrookofbloomfieldhills.com

Clawson Manor

255 W. 14 Mile Rd., Clawson; 248-435-5650. clawsonmanor.org

Elmhaven Manor

600 W. Walton Blvd., Pontiac; 248-451-1370. elmhavenmanor.com

Hazel Park Manor Co-op Apartments

701 E. Woodward Heights Blvd., Hazel Park; 800-593-3052. csi.coop

Madison Heights Co-op Apartments

500 E. Irving Ave., Madison Heights; 800-593-3052. csi.coop

New Horizons Co-op Apartments

31101 Edward Ave., Madison Heights; 800-593-3052. csi.coop

2566 Walton Blvd., Rochester Hills; 248-375-1810. samaritas.org 420 S. Opdyke Rd., Pontiac; 248-334-4379. pvm.org

WASHTENAW Brecon Village

200 Brecon Dr., Saline; 734-429-1155. ehmsolutions.org

WAYNE Belleville Co-op Apartments 575 Sumpter Rd., Belleville; 800-593-3052. csi.coop

16600 W. Outer Dr., Dearborn Heights; 800-593-3052. csi.coop 4560 Ninth St., Ecorse; 800-593-3052. csi.coop

28744 Telegraph Rd., Flat Rock; 800-593-3052. csi.coop

Gratiot Woods Co-op Apartments

5500 McClellan Ave., Detroit; 800-593-3052. csi.coop

Allegria Village

15101 Ford Rd., Dearborn; 877-660-1807. allegriavillage.com

LaBelle Towers Co-op Apartments

33 Labelle St., Highland Park; 800-593-3052. csi.coop

Bishop Co-op Apartments

Meyers Plaza Co-op Apartments

Brecon Village

Normandy Apartments

2651 Biddle Ave., Wyandotte; 800-593-3052. csi.coop

200 Brecon Dr., Saline; 734-429-1155. ehmsolutions.org

Cedarbrook of Northville 15700 N. Haggerty Rd., Plymouth; 248-468-1954. cedarbrookofnorthville.com

18000 Meyers Rd., Detroit; 800-593-3052. csi.coop

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Robotic Therapy for Pain Relief and Athletic Performance Improvement hip surgery after years of constant pain.

“I could barely walk,” Pulte says. “After three RPT visits, I was fully mobile. I cancelled my hip surgery and have been playing golf and tennis pain-free ever since.”

Blankenship says the robotic arm used by the therapist is more efficient than performing the therapy by hand. With the RX2600 Therapeutic Robot, the amount of pressure is controlled, the precision of the placement is consistent, and the amount of gentle pressure applied is measured.

Blankenship has also patented several innovating improvements to the technology, such as gentle heat and vibration to make RPT even more effective.

RPT can help with many issues such as back pain, neck pain, shoulder pain, migraines, carpal tunnel, TMJ, sciatica, and other muscular issues.

RPT has also been successful in aiding the mobility issues faced by those suffering from multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, Parkinson's, and cerebral palsy.

RPT is a complement to traditional physical therapy, chiropractic, massage, and other therapies. For those who have plateaued in physical therapy, RPT can help get to the areas physical therapy cannot reach. Often, after RPT, a client’s remaining physical therapy sessions are much more productive, Blankenship says.

Robotic Precision Therapy could help you live a life with less muscular pain and increased mobility. To find out more or to schedule your appointment, visit RPTclinic.com. ■ During his teen years, Ben Blankenship played basketball, football, rugby, and soccer.

Consequently, he dealt with several sporting injuries. While seeking treatment for these injuries, Blankenship discovered an emerging therapy called Robotic Precision Therapy, and it changed the course of his life.

“After years of being in pain and trying many different therapies and medications with no success, I was ready to give up,” Blankenship says. “Then, a family member who lived out-ofstate told me about a new therapy in their area that uses a robotic arm to lengthen muscle tissue. In just one RPT session, my back and shoulder pain were completely gone.”

The RPT robotic arm administered gentle pressure to specific muscles to relieve the pain and restore his range of motion and he discovered not only did this therapy eliminate his pain, but significantly improved his athletic performance.

Recognizing the revolutionary implications of RPT therapy, Blankenship decided to make it his career to bring life-changing Robotic Precision Therapy to his home state of Michigan. Today, Blankenship says the Robotic Precision Therapy

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Clinic in Troy has helped thousands of people improve mobility and reduce pain, and represents his nearly 15 years of dedication to helping others.

“Living in pain affects every part of a person’s life,” Blankenship says. “Clients often come to the RPT Clinic having tried countless other remedies without any relief. It’s so rewarding to see them be more mobile, happier, and back to the activities they love, and in some cases, even be able to avoid surgery.”

The Robotic Precision Therapy Clinic is home to five RX2600 Therapeutic Robot machines.

RPT technicians determine the muscle group causing the pain and then the robotic arm administers gentle pressure in set intervals to those specific muscles.

Blankenship says when muscles are shortened by repetitive motion, injury, or accident, it puts pressure on the surrounding bone structure and nerves, resulting in pain. The pressure exerted by the robotic arm works to lengthen the muscle back to its original state, reducing or even eliminating pain.

One of RPT Clinic’s early clients was Julie Pulte who didn’t think she would be able to avoid

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The Benefits of Pilates Before and After Hip Surgery

If you’re scheduled to undergo hip surgery, now is the perfect time to start doing Pilates.

Even if it seems counterintuitive to put that joint into motion, doing so with the guidance of a skilled and experienced Pilates instructor will actually safely strengthen the muscles around the joint. This is only one of the many benefits of engaging in Pilates before hip surgery.

Pilates before surgery will also help strengthen the tissue surrounding the hip joint and maintain its range of motion. The exercises are gentle and there’s little to no impact, which means these exercises can be performed even where there’s deterioration of the femur in the hip. Additionally, Pilates helps to undo any compensation habits you may have formed.

These are movements or adjustments you’ve developed in your body while attempting to avoid the pain in your hip joint.

“They’re normal,” says Ron Jegadeesh, Pilates instructor, physical therapist, and owner of Pilates Fitness & Physical Therapy Center in Southfield, “but they also throw your body out of alignment and further exac-erbate your condition.”

Another consideration is the fact that some atrophy will occur after surgery, during your

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post-operative rest period. By strengthening the hip area prior to surgery, you’ll be starting the process from a stronger place than if you’d done no Pilates at all. Further-more, you’ll also improve your balance by strengthening your core, which will serve you well after surgery.

Maintaining balance will be important once you start rehabbing that joint; you’ll be less likely to fall and you’ll feel more confident about returning to needed exercise. This is where Pilates after surgery comes into play.

Once you begin rehabbing your hip joint, logic would dictate that you’ll only be working the affected side — yet there’s an imbalance between the two sides of the body that has been exacerbated by the abovementioned compensation habits you probably developed before surgery. Plus, when you get right down to it, even though there’s a clear imbalance around the hip joint and the point of incision, the entire body experiences the consequences of surgery. For example, the brain has to recover from the effects of the anesthesia, and the body’s immune system is weakened. All of these factors make Pilates uniquely qualified for rehabbing after hip surgery.

Pilates addresses the body as a whole. With the Pilates system, individual units work together in an organized scheme or method. In other words, while working to strengthen the area around the hip joint and increasing your range of motion, the rest of the body is targeted as an integrated system.

This is done with an emphasis on core strength and two-way stretching. During rehab from hip surgery, you’ll learn how to use the muscles of the core to support every movement of your body. Under an instructor’s watchful eye, you’ll perform these exercises with proper alignment to ensure that muscles lay down new fibers in a way that’s most beneficial to the joint.

Pilates further helps to speed up recovery by ensuring that the area around the hip is lengthened, to avoid any issues with scar tissue.

The amount of time you need to recover before engaging in Pilates after surgery will depend on many factors. For some patients, particularly those who partake in preoperative Pilates, it could be as little as six weeks post-op. For others, it may be two to three months. You obviously want to obtain clearance from your surgeon first.

If available, find a center that offers both Pilates and physical therapy. Physical therapists in these environments are also trained in Pilates and use Pilates equipment and machines to further facilitate their patients’ recovery. After the initial physical thera-py sessions, patients can move effectively into Pilates with the guidance of their physical therapist. If such a place doesn’t exist near where you live, be sure to work with only highly trained Pilates instructors who are able to safely address your mobility both pre- and post-surgery. ■

Pilates Fitness & Physical Therapy Center Ron Jegadeesh, PT, MBA Certified PMA, Polestar Pilates, Stott Pilates®, Gyrotonic®, Gyrokinesis® Instructor 17418 W. 10 Mile Rd. Southfield, MI 48075 248-552-1012 | 248-552-0657 (fax) pilatesfitnessevolution.com info@pilatesfitnessevolution.com

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THE LIST Hospital Directory

ASCENSION MICHIGAN Ascension Brighton Center for Recovery Brighton; 810-227-1211. ascension.org/michigan

Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital

Madison Heights Campus; 248-967-7000. ascension.org/michigan

Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital

DMC Heart Hospital

Detroit; 313-362-2500. dmc.org/heart

DMC Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital Commerce Twp.; 248-937-3300. dmc.org

DMC Hutzel Women’s Hospital Detroit; 313-745-8040. dmc.org

DMC Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan

Detroit; 313-745-1203. rimrehab.org

Warren Campus; 586-573-5000. ascension.org/michigan

DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital

Ascension Providence Hospital

HENRY FORD HEALTH Henry Ford Hospital

Novi Campus; 248-465-4100. ascension.org/michigan

Ascension Providence Hospital

Southfield Campus; 248-849-3000. ascension.org/michigan

Ascension Providence Rochester Hospital

Rochester; 248-652-5000. ascension.org/michigan

Detroit; 313-966-3300. dmc.org

Detroit; 313-916-2600. henryford.com

Henry Ford Kingswood Hospital (Behavioral Health) Ferndale; 248-398-3200. henryford.com

Henry Ford Macomb Hospital Clinton Twp.; 586-263-2300. henryford.com

BEAUMONT HEALTH Beaumont Hospital

Henry Ford Macomb Hospital

Dearborn; 313-593-7000. beaumont.org

(Behavioral Health) Mt. Clemens; 586-466-9895. henryford.com

Beaumont Hospital

Henry Ford Maplegrove Center

Farmington Hills; 947-521-8000. beaumont.org

Beaumont Hospital

Grosse Pointe; 313-473-1000. beaumont.org

Beaumont Hospital

Royal Oak; 248-898-5000. beaumont.org

DETROIT MEDICAL CENTER DMC Call Center

SAINT JOSEPH MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor

DMC Heart and Vascular

St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea

Detroit; 888-362-2500. dmccvi.org

Children’s Hospital of Michigan Detroit; 313-745-5437. childrensdmc.org

Children’s Hospital of Michigan Troy; 248-524-7180. childrensdmc.org

DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital Detroit; 313-745-3000. dmc.org

DMC Harper University Hospital Detroit; 313-745-8040. dmc.org

John D. Dingell VA Medical Center Detroit; 313-576-1000. va.gov/detroit-health-care

Karmanos Cancer Institute

Surgeons Choice Macomb Center Warren; 586-751-9800 surgeonschoice.com

Pontiac General Hospital Pontiac; 248-857-7200. pontiacgeneral.com

Straith Hospital

Detroit; 800-527-6266. karmanos.org

Southfield; 248-357-3360. straithhospital.org

Kresge Eye Institute

VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System

Southfield; 248-594-6702.

Dearborn; 313-945-8270.

Detroit; 313-577 8900.

Ann Arbor; 734-769-7100. va.gov/ann-arbor-health-care

McLaren Oakland

Pontiac; 248-338-5000. mclaren.org/oakland

888-362-2500. dmc.org (to schedule appointments or find a doctor)

Garden City; 734-458-3300. gch.org

Dearborn; 313-359-9540. surgeonschoice.com

Mount Clemens; 586-493-8000. mclaren.org/Macomb

Beaumont Hospital

Wayne; 734-467-4000, beaumont.org

OTHER Garden City Hospital

Surgeons Choice Dearborn Center

Henry Ford Wyandotte

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Troy; 248-964-5000. beaumont.org

Ann Arbor; 734-936-4000. uofmhealth.org

Southfield; 248-423-5100. surgeonschoice.com

West Bloomfield Twp.; 248-325-1000. henryford.com

Beaumont Hospital Beaumont Hospital

Michigan Medicine University Hospital

Surgeons Choice Medical Center

Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital

Wyandotte; 734-246-6000. henryford.com

Trenton; 734-671-3800. beaumont.org

Ann Arbor; 734-936-4000. mottchildren.org

Taylor; 734-287-8000.

Troy; 313-577-8900. kresgeeye.org

(Behavioral Health) West Bloomfield Twp.; 248-661-6100. henryford.com/maplegrove

Beaumont Hospital

Taylor; 313-295-5000. beaumont.org

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital

Ypsilanti; 734-712-3456. stjoesannarbor.org

Chelsea; 734-593-6000. stjoeshealth.org

St. Joseph Mercy Livingston Howell; 517-545-6000. stjoeshealth.org

St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Pontiac; 248-858-3000. stjoeshealth.org

St. Mary Mercy Livonia Hospital Livonia; 734-655-4800. stmarymercy.org

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Muse Medical Spa

You don’t have to be famous — or spend hours at the gym — to have the body of your dreams.

And, you don’t have to travel great distances either. MUSE Medical Spa in Troy’s luxury corridor, has many of the same machines celebrities and others use to achieve visible outcomes that can transform your body from head to toe. MUSE is among the first facility in Michigan to carry Potenza and Elite iQ, and all the machines — which provide a range of procedures — are clinically proven and do not discriminate.

Every skin tone can be treated at MUSE. Discovering treatments that truly work and being able to offer them to the general public, has been an ambition of MUSE owner Nadine Gomah for many years. As an accredited cosmetologist she has extensive knowledge of skin health and skincare and has long had a passion for beauty and image, as well as a desire to provide surgical-level results without putting clients under the knife.

After nearly a year of researching different equipment and techniques, comparing effects, exploring potential issues, and consulting with leading plastic surgeons, Gomah invested in the machines and technologies she felt could best, and most safely, accomplish her goals for the spa. Since opening in late 2021, she and her team have treated an abundance of clients of all ages, genders, and needs. “I want people to understand that we went above and beyond when we built this space,” Gomah says. “I have teamed up with the best facial and reconstructive surgeons in the area. These partners know what they’re doing and that’s exactly who I wanted to work with hand-in-hand.”

At MUSE, customers can get ready for their “close-ups” with services such as chemical peels,

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facials, and face resurfacing, plus injections, microneedling RF, and sun spot, lesion, and mole removal. Or, get smoother to the touch with laser hair removal and leg vein treatments. For noticeable renewal of stubborn areas, there is body sculpting. Also offered is a “mommy makeover” or similar multi-area therapy with a combination of treatments. Gomah says all procedures are noninvasive and have significantly less pain and downtime than traditional plastic surgery.

MUSE Medical spa is staffed by professionals who are well versed in the field of aesthetics and are expertly trained in every single technique, treatment, and machine they offer. In addition to Gomah, there are two registered nurses on the team, as well as five local physicians who sit on the board of directors, including Dr. Dianne Schlachter, chief of oculoplastic surgery at Beaumont Health.

Doctors, as well as many of their colleagues in the industry, often refer their patients to MUSE Medical Spa for conservative and reliable alternatives to surgery. “Having these physicians believe in what we’re doing is an honor,” Gomah says. “They’re impressed with the science behind all of these machines and with the results—and some even come to us for services.”

If you’ve been curious about non-surgical fat reduction and done your research, you’ve likely seen brand names such as Emsculpt Neo and SculpSure. Both are offered at MUSE and are FDA-approved techniques for the abdomen, buttocks, arms, calves, and thighs — and they’re cleared for treating patients with a BMI of up to 40. Emsculpt Neo has the added benefit of

building muscle, and can result in an average of 25% more muscle growth and 30% less fat after a series of treatments.

To address skin issues, especially on the face, MUSE employs a number of techniques. Potenza is a microneedling RF procedure that tightens skin, improves blemishes, and regenerates elastin and collagen. Elite iQ offers advanced laser resurfacing to address scars and birthmarks, age and liver spots, sun-damaged skin, fine lines and wrinkles, and more. MUSE Medical Spa facials, including the Vortex-Fusion HydraFacial and DiamondGlow dermabrasion, can cleanse, exfoliate, extract, and hydrate skin for a radiant, new appearance.

Descriptions of these procedures and more can be found on musetroy.com. Which ones are right for you? Gomah recommends scheduling a consultation to discuss options, tour the spa, and walk through how each procedure is performed and works. She and her team love being able to boost their clients’ confidence and look forward to giving you the results they’ve always desired. ■

MUSE Medical Spa Nadine Gomah COS, Administrator 1771 W. Big Beaver Rd. Troy, MI 48084 248-823-7773 musetroy.com

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because they’ve put off going to the doctor,” he says. “We’re seeing more patients who have been without medicine, more people who have had trouble following up, than we’ve seen in the past.”

Prostate cancer screenings are especially important for Black men, Passerman says. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that for Black men, the risk of dying from low-grade prostate cancer is double that of men of other races.

“With all cancers and all disease, prevention and catching things early always leads to a better outcomes,” Passerman says.

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Don’t Delay Care!

Missed screenings due to the pandemic have affected the health of patients of every age

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on the health care system and taken hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide.

Still, there are other significant health consequences of the pandemic that haven’t yet been quantified, according to local doctors. These include the consequences of missing screenings for deadly conditions like cancer. According to a 2021 paper in JAMA Oncology, more than 9 million people across the country missed screenings for breast, colorectal, and prostate cancers that year, delaying routine but potentially life-saving doctor visits.

Here are four primary groups affected by missed screenings, and the importance getting them scheduled:

kids, says Dr. Kevin Dazy of Children’s Hospital of Michigan. Parents have been bringing children in at much lower rates in the last two years, he says, which means pediatricians haven’t had a chance to catch health and developmental problems before they progress.

“This has been a frustrating thing for all pediatricians, because part of our role is in preventive medicine,” Dazy says. “The biggest thing is, we don’t want to miss that opportunity to intervene early on. If they’re not gaining weight well or reaching all their milestones, we can seek out the best possible experts. We want to avoid children having to seek acute care or go to the hospital.”

CHILDREN

MEN

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last October that crucial vaccinations among children for diseases like polio and measles dropped worldwide, during the pandemic, to the lowest levels in more than 10 years.

That’s just part of the problem for

The big screenings getting missed for men are prostate, colorectal, and chronic disease like high blood pressure and diabetes, says Dr. Daniel Passerman, chair of family medicine for Henry Ford Health System.

“What I have seen is a lot more uncontrolled disease, like diabetes,

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Many clinics are backlogged for mammograms and continue to play catch-up from two years of missed appointments, says Dr. Lori Mausi, an obstetrics and gynecology specialist at Beaumont Health.

“At first, in 2020, we were only scheduling emergency visits, and preventive visits for mammograms and cervical cancer screenings were on hold,” Mausi says. “This year, we’re still behind, but we’re trying to make up all those appointments now.”

The most worrisome population, though, are the patients who have noticed something abnormal, like a lump, and shrugged it off out of fear of contracting COVID-19 during a checkup.

“People have stayed away because they’re scared of infection,” Mausi says.

“They’re not on our radar.”

OLDER ADULTS

The pandemic has been especially hard on older adults, and isolation could cause some health conditions, like depression and cognitive decline, to progress more rapidly, says University of Michigan associate professor of geriatric and palliative medicine Dr. Lillian Min. Because the elderly have put off annual visits, they haven’t undergone screenings for these conditions, Min says. In addition, “cognitive decline is compounded by not seeing the doctor because the patients are not organized. With the pandemic, people are also drinking alcohol more, making cognitive impairment, depression, and blood pressure worse.”

Min said this population is also less likely to engage in telehealth visits, giving them an even greater disadvantage.

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