Vainutis Kazys Vaitkevicius

Background

Vaitkevicius, Vainutis Kazys was born on January 12, 1927 in Kaunas, Lithuania. Came to the United States, 1951. Son of Henrikas and Camille Vaitkevicius.

Education

Diploma, Lithuanian College, Eichstett, Germany, 1946. Doctor of Medicine, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 1951.

Career

Intern, Grace Hospital, Detroit, 1951-1952; resident, Grace Hospital, Detroit, 1955-1956; resident, Detroit Receiving Hospital, 1956-1958; fellow in cancer research, Detroit Institute Cancer Research, 1958-1959; from assistant to associate professor medicine school medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1962-1972; professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, since 1972; director division conjoint services and curricula oncology, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1966-1972; department chairman oncology, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1972-1982; department chairman internal medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, 1982-1989; clinical director, Detroit Institute Cancer Research, 1962-1966; acting chief medicine, Detroit General Hospital, 1970-1971; chief division medicine, Grace Hospital, 1973-1976; chief oncology, Harper-Grace Hospitals, Detroit, 1977-1982; chief medicine, Harper-Grace Hospitals, Detroit, 1982-1989; associate director clinical activities, Comprehensive Cancer Center Metropolitan Detroit, 1978-1982; physician-in-chief, Detroit Medical Center, 1982-1989; president, Michigan Cancer Foundation, Detroit, 1991-1995; president emeritus, board directors, Bachelor of Arts Karmanos Cancer Center, since 1995. Member committee human and animal experimentation Wayne State University, 1968-1973, chairman, 1971-1973, member presidential selection advising committee, 1981, member university county, 1981-1983, member budget committee of university county, 1981-1983, member presidential committee cancer programs, since 1981. Member National Colorectal Cancer Advisory Committee, 1971-1973, Committee Evaluate Cancer Curricula American Medical Schools, 1971-1979.

Member Executive Committee S.W. Cancer Chemotherapy Study Group, 1972-1973. Member evaluation advisory county Southeastern Regional Cancer Programs, 1972-1974. Chairman gastrointestinal committee S.W. Oncology Group, 1974-1979.

Member Executive Board Wayne State University/University of Michigan Institute Gerontology, 1975-1986. Member operating committee Comprehensive Cancer Center Metropolitan Detroit, since 1978. Member commissioned jury Saint-Vincent International Prize Medical Sciences, Rome, 1979, 83.

Chairman county department chairmen school medicine Wayne State University, 1979-1981, member dean's county graduate medical education program, 1983-1989, member dean's review committee, 1986, member pharmacy and medicine task force, 1986, chairman radiation oncology search committee, 1987. Member medical staff finance and budget committee Harper-Grace Hospitals, 1983-1984, member gerontology services planning committee, 1984-1987, chairman Nuclear magnetic resonance advanced.com., since 1984. Member transplantation committee Detroit Medical Center, 1991-1994, member medical board, 1985-1989, chairman task force cancer programs, 1987.

Presenter in field.

Achievements

• Vainutis Kazys Vaitkevicius has been listed as a noteworthy Foundation administrator, medical educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member executive committee board trustees Michigan Cancer Foundation, 1975-1985. Member blood service operations committee American Red Cross Southeastern Michigan, 1981-1984. Board directors Wayne County unit American Cancer Society, 1976-1979.

Trustee Hospice Southeastern Michigan, 1991-1995. Member National Cancer Advisory Board, since 1994. Captain United States Army, 1953-1955.

Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American College of Physicians, American Association Cancer Research, American Federation Clinical Research, American Society Hematology, American Society Clinical Oncology (member program committee 1981), American Association Cancer Education (member executive council since 1971, president 1976-1977), Michigan State Medical Society (member cancer committee 1965-1973, Flag award 1992), New York Academy of Sciences, Michigan Society Internal Medicine, Wayne County Medical Society (member delegate body 1981-1987, member task force referral education 1986, member physician technical services 1991-1995), Detroit Physiological Society, Detroit Academy Medicine, Central Society Clinical Research, James Ewing Society, Aesculapian Society (honorary), Alpha Omega Alpha, Phi Lambda Kappa (honorary).

Connections

Married Ingeborg Jansen. Children: Eva, Henri, Peter, Camille, Walter, Martin.

Father:

Henrikas Vaitkevicius

Mother:

Camille Vaitkevicius

Spouse:

Ingeborg Jansen

child:

Henri Vaitkevicius

child:

Martin Vaitkevicius

child:

Eva Vaitkevicius

child:

Walter Vaitkevicius

child:

Peter Vaitkevicius

child:

Camille Vaitkevicius