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  All members of the Department of hold appointments through the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. The Department has more than 60 community volunteer physicians that work with resident physicians and students. These community volunteer physicians hold clinical faculty appointments from MSU-CHM.
   
 
Edward Jackson, M.D., is the Chair of Family Medicine and the Director of Undergraduate Education for the Department. Dr. Jackson leads a popular clerkship for the Michigan State University medical students. He directs the Department’s Ambulatory Geriatric Evaluation Service and has an added certificate of qualifications in geriatrics. In 1999 and 2002 Dr. Jackson received the Outstanding Community Faculty Award from MSU. Dr. Jackson is a past (2000-2001) President of the Michigan Academy of Family Physicians and currently serves as the MAFPs alternate delegate to the American Academy of Family Physicians. He also chairs the Commitee on Continuing Medical Education for the Michigan Academy and is a member of the committees on Legislative Affairs, Practice Environments and Economics, and the leadership planning committee. Edward Jackson, MD
   
Stuart Rupke, M.D., is an Assistant Program Director. Dr. Rupke joined our faculty after years of private practice in the mountains of western Virginia. He serves as Director of Grand Round Presentations, and completed a fellowship in faculty development through Michigan State University. Stuart Rupke, MD
   
William Morrone, D.O., Assistant Program Director
William R. Morrone, DO, is married with two children, has been Assistant Adjunct Faculty of Family and Community Medicine, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine (MSUCOM), Des Moines University and is now Asst Director of Family Medicine at Synergy Medical Education Alliance (MSUCHM).  Dr. Morrone has also been the Director of Pathology at American Medical Missionary Care, Saginaw County, Michigan and is a current Medical  Director at Hospice of Michigan CT101 on Mack Avenue in Detroit, Michigan and Saginaw.

Dr. Morrone is a graduate of Michigan State University (MSUCOM), served his internship in internal medicine in Lansing at Ingham Regional Medical Center and his residency in family medicine at the Michigan State University statewide campus site  at Bay Regional Medical Center.  He is double board certified by the American College of Osteopathic Family Practitioners and the American Academy of Pain Management.  Owosso Memorial Hospital has granted Dr. Morrone consulting privileges to work in a hospital setting.  Dr. Morrone holds a DEA license for treatment of opioid dependence with buprenophine.

Dr. Morrone is an active addiction  educator and social advocate in pain management and has contributed numerous didactic pieces to the state medical societies in this area.  He also holds a graduate degree in toxicology and pharmacology from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, graduate school of pharmacy.  Most notable to pop culture cable TV news viewers is that he has been on Nancy Grace-CNN Headline News, Court TV, CNN, FOXNews Channel and MSNBC giving medical opinions on everything from child care to lead paint or death and the 6 stages of decomposition.  Public Service is no stranger to Dr. Morrone as he is a Medical Examiner and has been a volunteer firefighter.
William Morrone, D.O.
   
Sreeram Gonnalagadda, M.D., Assistant Program Director Sreeram Gonnalagadda , MD
   
Wendy Yang , M.D., Assistant Program Director, is a graduate of Syngery Medical. She assists in coordinating the clerkship for the medical students and works as the unofficial "social director" for the department. Her motto is "friends make work fun". Dr. Yang graduated from Ewha Womans University, College of Medicine, located in Seoul, S. Korea. She spent a year in Boston studying dermatology before coming to Saginaw to do her residency. As a resident she had the opportunity to go to Nicaragua on a short mission trip and also serve as chief resident. Delicia Pruitt, M.D.
   
Deb Bonitz, Ph.D., Director of Behavioral Medicine, Dr. Bonitz earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She completed a two-year APA-accredited postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical Health Psychology with the MSU/FAME Professional Psychology Consortium in Flint, Michigan in September 2005.  Dr. Bonitz develop s the psychological knowledge,  doctor -patient relationship skills, and communication skills of the Family Medicine residents.  She accomplishes these through didactics and feedback from shadowing or live observation of the residents at Generations Family Care Clinic. In addition, Dr. Bonitz accepts referrals from the Family Medicine residents and faculty as psychotherapy patients. Deb Bonitz, Ph.D.
   
Elaine Gunn, M.D.,  Pediatric Director and adjunct instructor.
Dr. Gunn assists in the medical education of residents and medical students. Dr. Gunn completed her residency training at Detroit Medical Center-Wayne State University.
Elaine Gunn, M.D.
   
Osama Elfabagh, M.D.,  Pediatric Physician and adjunct instructor.
Osama Elsabagh, M.D.
   
Robert Vitu, M.D., serves as a volunteer faculty member in the Family Medicine Center each week. Dr. Vitu had a successful private practice in Saginaw for many years, and is a past-president of the Michigan Academy of Family Physicians. Robert Vitu, MD
   
Lawrence LaLonde, M.D., serves as a part-time Assistant Director. Dr. LaLonde has a busy private practice, and his clinical experience is of great value when he precepts in the Family Medicine Center twice a month. Lawrence LaLonde, MD
   
   
 
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