Leo M. Madarang, MD, a Michigan surgeon was installed as SPSA’s 37th President during the Society’s Annual CME Meeting Seminar in Surgery, July 11-15 2012 in Orlando, Florida.

Leo graduated from the University of Santo Tomas in 1971. He did his internship at St, Joseph Hospital and then his residency in General Surgery and Trauma at Hurley Medical Center. He served as Chief of Surgery at Genesee Memorial Hospital in Flint, Michigan and Wheelock Memorial Hospital in Goodrich, Michigan.

He is in practice as a general surgeon and as a wound care specialist and hyperbarist at McLaren Regional Medical Center in Flint, Michigan. He is married to his wife of 40 years, Maria Teresa. They have 4 children– Angela Joyce, a paralegal, Candice, a Director of Restaurants and Marriott, Michelle, a registered nurse, and Leo, Jr., a lawyer.

The new SPSA president plays golf, collects classic comic books and enjoys traveling. The group is scheduled to have another surgical mission, tentatively set on the third or the last week of January 2013.