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embership in the Sherman Memorial Lecture, part of the WSU
Society doesn’t require a
School of Medicine OB-GYN Grand
lengthy appli-
Rounds, an annual educa-
cation, annual dues or
tional program for medical
celebrity status. All that’s
students and physicians. Dr.
required is a willingness
Mark I. Evans, OB-GYN pro-
to celebrate “a very spe-
fessor at Mt. Sinai School of
cial person who trained
Medicine, formerly chair of
so many of the Jewish
the WSU OB-GYN department
OB-GYN physicians in
and a nationally known expert
Metro Detroit,” explains
in reproductive genetics, was
Dr. Alfred
Danny Benjamin, M.D., one Sherman
the 2018 lecturer — a testa-
of the residents trained by
ment to Sherman’s reputa-
the late Alfred I. Sherman,
tion, according to Sherman
M.D., who chaired Sinai
Society members.
Hospital’s Department of
According to Jerrold “Jerry”
Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Weinberg, M.D., Sherman
For the past three years,
came to Sinai Hospital in 1967
Benjamin has organized a
as its first full-time chief of
dinner that gathers former
obstetrics/gynecology — pre-
Sinai Hospital OB-GYN res-
viously a part-time-position.
Dr. Danny
idents and attending phy-
Weinberg was one of his first
Benjamin
sicians, along with Wayne
group of residents.
State University-affiliated
“He was a wonderful, gentle
physicians, whose lives
person with Jewish values
were touched by Sherman
and a cancer specialist who
— a leading clinician,
saved lives,” Weinberg says.
teacher and innovator in
According to a 1992 article
gynecology and obstetrics
in the Detroit Free Press,
in Detroit.
Sherman was the first board-
His students are practic- Dr. Jerrold “Jerry” certified gynecologic oncolo-
ing at the DMC Beaumont Weinberg
gist in Michigan and only one
and Providence hospitals
of 10 statewide at that time.
locally, and are in other Michigan
Sherman was born in Hamilton,
cities and scattered throughout the
Ontario, and attended medical
country, says Benjamin, who now
school at the University of Toronto.
heads the OB-GYN department at
Anti-Semitism in Canada limited
DMC Huron-Valley Sinai Hospital.
opportunities for Jewish physi-
The recent dinner is coordinated
cians, so after a year of training in
with the annual Alfred I. Sherman
New York, he went to Washington
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Video Consults now available with Dr. Ruben on WHATSAPP
248-672-9775
Bruce Ruben, M.D. is the Founder and Medical Director of
Encompass HealthCare & Wound Medicine, Michigan's premier
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This story about Dr. Alfred Sherman appeared in the JN Sept. 1, 1967.