Dr. Gregory J. Heise

Heisey would take scientific approach
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Dr. Gregory Heisey believes he can help the Birmingham school board tackle financial issues through a scientific way of looking at problems.

"I try to take out the emotional issues and looks at the facts.The analytical way of looking at the budget to me is very important," said Heisey, a research veterinarian for the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit.
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Heisey, 58, of Franklin, is running for one of two school board seats in the Nov. 6 election.He says he's running because he has a vested interest in the district as the father of Derrick, 16, a Groves High School student.Derrick is currently in Karlsruhe, Germany, for his junior year of study.

Heisey and his wife, Marie, an English teacher in Harper Woods, also have two daughters who graduated before they moved to the district in 2004.

Heisey has a strong belief in the long-term benefits of exchange programs.The couple has hosted three high school exchange students, including currently one from China.

He says he would not support cutting foreign language classes.

"I firmly believe that the school district should require a foreign language for graduation," he said.

Heisey said he runs departments with budgets of up to $10 million a year.He is responsible for "planning, prioritizing and implementing" them.

He would look for prioritizing in the new superintendant, he said: "He's got to learn how to do more with less and with that prioritizing, what will be first, second and third.I think anything that lets us maintain academic excellence is going to get top priority."

Ultimately, Heisey said, the state is the key to solving the school's budget problem, and he supports "putting pressure on the Legislature to change."

"I think the board as a whole should take a pro-active stand," he said.

Heisey added of the school board, "It should not be a rubber stamp for the administration."

Heisey earned his veterinary degree from Ohio State University and a master's of science in laboratory animal medicine from Penn State University.He served in the military for 20 years, during which time he lived in Malaysia and Thailand.He also worked at the University of California.

Heisey has been an active high school parent volunteer and also volunteers in the community.

Heisey may be contacted at gheisey@hotmail.com.

Although TCF had been inspected by the FDA just two month's prior, the Animal Control Clinic Application (appendix seven) signed October 11, 1999 by TCF veterinarian Gregory Heisey fails to disclose to the Board the results of the FDA investigation.
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Instead, TCF stated that there were NO pending disciplinary action(s) and/or ongoing investigations against the lab by any licensing authority or law enforcement agency (question #3, Controlled Substance renewal Application, signed by Greg Heisey, 10/12/00)

July 12, 2001: The USDA again filed charges (AWA Docket No. 01-0044) (appendix 11) against TCF related to the deaths of chimpanzee Ray (8/16/01) from an alleged "fungal infection" and chimpanzee Donna (10/27/99), who died after carrying a dead fetus in her womb for almost two months.

Debbie lives in Sacrmento, California with her husband Dr. Gregory Heise, an oral/maxillofacial surgeon.

Gregory J. Heise, D.D.S.

Dr. Gregory J. Heise graduated from the University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry, where he was honored as a Regent's Scholar.

While serving in the United States Navy, Dr. Heise completed a Fellowship in Oral Surgery and his residency at the Naval Hospital in Oakland.

As a Navy Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Dr. Heise served in Operation Desert Storm and Operation Restore Hope in Somalia.

He returned to the Naval Hospital, Oakland to staff the Oral Maxillofacial surgery residency training program.

Dr. Heise continues to be an active educator as an Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry.

Greg Heise