Dr. Joseph Lohmuller, a trauma and general surgeon at Genesis Medical Center in Davenport and president of Davenport Surgical Group, PC, is an activist far beyond his role as a skilled surgeon.  In 2010, he championed the effort to transform an unsightly gravel roof into a rooftop greenscape project that improved the view for patients on three inpatient floors at Genesis Medical  Center’s East Rusholme Street campus. He felt surgical, cardiac and obstetric patients deserved a more therapeutic view for healing and made it his personal mission to raise funds and see the roof to completion. The rooftop is in full bloom today.

“While he may do his finest work as a surgeon in the operating room directly below the rooftop greenscape, I would contend he does his finest work as a compassionate physician in the patient rooms looking out onto the roof,” says Missy Gowey, executive director of the Genesis Health Services Foundation. “I have always been impressed with his skills and am now humbled by his passion for helping patients achieve wellness – physically, emotionally and spiritually.”

As the medical director of the Genesis trauma program, Dr. Lohmuller has worked to reduce trauma in many ways, from advocating traffic control cameras to participating in mock accident re-enactments before prom night to discourage impaired teenage drivers. He also was instrumental in Genesis offering free prom photos to all prom-goers who sign a pledge to be alcohol-free, to not be distracted drivers and to wear their seatbelts on prom night.

As past medical director for the Genesis Center for Breast Health, he has impacted the healing of hundreds of Quad Cities women who have faced breast cancer. “Dr. Lohmuller is the

driving force for our genetic clinic, which provides patients with a family history of breast cancer an opportunity to determine the risk that they or their daughters  may have in developing the disease in the future,” says Cindy McGee, Manager of the Kenneth H. McKay M.D. Center for Breast Health.

Each summer, Dr. Lohmuller leads a medical mission trip to Peru, where he and a health care team of other Genesis professionals provide care, equipment and technology to patients at Hospital Goyeneche in the impoverished city of Arequipa. On this year’s trip, his team of hospital staff included Genesis CEO Doug Cropper.