Cleveland Clinic official to lecture at Grove City

GROVE CITY, Pa. -- Dr. John J. Fung, chairman of the department of general surgery and director of transplant surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, will serve as the 2004 Grove City College Albert A. Hopeman Jr. Lecturer.
He will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Sticht Lecture Hall of the Hall of Arts and Letters on the Grove City campus. His topic will be: "Historic Perspective in Organ Transplantation."
Dr. Fung, also the former chief of transplant surgery at the University of Pittsburgh, has more than 20 years of involvement in kidney, liver, pancreas, islet and intestinal transplantation. He is also an accomplished immunologist.
He received his bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1975 and a Ph.D. in immunology in 1980 and his medical degree in 1982 from the University of Chicago. He completed his surgical residency at the University of Rochester and a transplant surgery fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh.
In 1989, he joined the University of Pittsburgh faculty and was the inaugural Thomas E. Starzl Professor in Surgery.
He is professor of surgery at the Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western University.