Surgical Specialist Joins Spectrum Health Medical Group as Department Chief

Seth Wolk, MD, MHSA, has joined the Spectrum Health Medical Group as department chief, surgical specialties. Dr. Wolk has special interests in patient safety and quality of care, interdisciplinary team building and coordinated care, risk management and graduate medical education.

Dr. Wolk earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston. He completed his residency in general surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and a fellowship in peripheral vascular surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He also completed a fellowship at the Veterans Affairs (VA) National Center for Patient Safety in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is board certified in vascular surgery.

Spectrum Health is a not-for-profit health system in West Michigan offering a full continuum of care through the Spectrum Health Hospital Group, which is comprised of nine hospitals including Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, a state of the art children’s hospital that opened in January 2011, and 190 service sites; the Spectrum Health Medical Group and West Michigan Heart, physician groups totaling more than 600 providers; and Priority Health, a health plan with 625,000 members. Spectrum Health is West Michigan’s largest employer with more than 18,000 employees. The organization provided $176.5 million in community benefit during its 2011 fiscal year.