James Tyburski, M.D.

James Tyburski, M.D., has served as chief of Surgery at Detroit Receiving Hospital since 2003.

He is associate chair of the Wayne State University School of Medicine's Michael and Marian Ilitch Department of Surgery Department and a charter member of the School of Medicine's Academy of Scholars.

Born in Scranton, Pa., Dr. Tyburski's grandfathers were coal miners, and his father was a railroad worker for the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. He received his medical degree from the State University of New York, Health Science Center at Syracuse, and in 1987 moved to Detroit for his General Surgery residency and a Trauma fellowship at Wayne State University. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery and Critical Care Surgery.

Dr. Tyburski served as program director of the Wayne State University School of Medicine/Detroit Medical Center surgical residency from 1998 to 2017. He received nine teaching awards.

He has served on the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons, and is past-president of the Midwest Surgical Association and of the Michigan Chapter of the American College of Surgeons.