S. Martin Lindenauer, M.D.

S. Martin Lindenauer, M.D. (Residency 1960) died June 15, 2022, at age 89.

Lindenauer received his M.D. from Tufts University. He came to the University of Michigan in 1960 for his general surgery residency and joined the faculty in 1964 as an instructor in surgery, rising through the ranks to professor in 1972.

His 40-year career at U-M included both clinical and research work in vas­cular disease, and he was instrumental in starting U-M’s Diagnostic Vascular Laboratory. Lindenauer’s administrative roles included serving as associate dean of the Medical School and associate chief of clinical affairs at University Hospital. He was also chief of staff at the Ann Arbor Veterans Hospital.

Lindenauer mentored hundreds of medical students, including Thomas Wakefield, M.D. In 2002, the S. Martin Lindenauer Collegiate Professorship in Vascular Surgery was inaugurated, with Wakefield being installed as the first Lindenauer Professor. The professor­ship was established by Lindenauer’s daughter, Debby Weinberg, and her husband, Peter, to honor her father’s numerous academic and medical accomplishments.

In 2016, Lindenauer co-authored Paralyzing Summer: The True Story of the Ann Arbor V.A. Hospital Poisonings and Deaths.

This obituary is based on one published by the Ann Arbor News and an article from Medicine at Michigan.