St. Joseph Mercy Oakland will host its 52nd annual Allen Silbergleit, M.D., Clinic Day on Nov. 18 in the Anthony M. Franco Communications Center on the SJMO campus.

This year’s topic, “21st Century Trauma Care,” includes presentations on advances in medicine and surgery given by four distinguished visiting professors.

The program begins at 7:30 a.m. with registration and continental breakfast and concludes with a luncheon and a discussion with speakers at 12:30 p.m.

Speakers at this year’s Clinic Day and their topics are:

James. Tyburski, M.D., professor of Surgery, Wayne State University; chief, Department of Surgery, Detroit Receiving Hospital; program director, General Surgery Residency, Wayne State University/Detroit Medical Center, “What’s New in Trauma?”

Charles E. Lucas, M.D., professor of Surgery, Wayne State University, “Controversies in Fluid Management of the Severely Injured Patient”

Thomas M. Scalea, M.D., physician-in-chief, R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center; Francis X. Kelly professor of Trauma Surgery; director, Program in Trauma, University of Maryland, “Trauma Management in the Elderly”

Mark D. Pearlman, M.D., S. Jan Behrman professor in Reproductive Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School; professor, Departments of Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Health System; service chief, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, “Obstetric Aspects of Trauma Management.”

“Clinic Day has always been the flagship program of the academic year at SJMO,” said Allen Silbergleit, M.D., Ph.D., program director emeritus of the Department of General Surgery and chair of the Division of General Surgery. He also is the Cancer Liaison Physician for the Commission on Cancer.

In 2005, SJMO renamed the annual Clinic Day program in honor of Dr. Silbergleit, the long-serving chair of the Clinic Day committee and 40-year director of the surgery residency program. For his accomplishments in graduate medical education, Dr. Silbergleit was awarded the Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

For more information, call Debra Reid at (248) 858-3234.