Jai Liem, M.D., clinical professor and voluntary faculty member for the Wayne State University School of Medicine, in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation-Oakwood, died June 19, 2016. He was 70.

Dr. Liem was born April 16, 1946, in Seoul, Korea, and completed pre-medical education at Korea University in 1967. He completed his internship at South Macomb Hospital System in Warren, Mich., in 1977, and his residency at the Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at New York University School of Medicine in 1980. Dr. Liem served as a medical officer in the Korean Army from 1971 to 1974, and was also an emergency room physician and in family practice in Seoul.

From 2009, Dr. Liem held numerous hospital appointments in Oakwood Healthcare Inc. at the Annapolis, Dearborn, Taylor and Southshore hospitals, now known as Beaumont Health. He was a member of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the Michigan Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the Wayne County Medical Society and the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture. Dr. Liem was also a member of the SKYL Physical Medicine Practice.

Dr. Liem was well loved by the residents and medical students he taught. He spent significant time getting to know them as individuals, and took a keen interest in them as students and mentoring them in their careers. He was fond of treating residents to dinners and enjoyed spending time at a restaurant or playing billiards with them after a busy day in the hospital caring for patients. Dr. Liem enjoyed music and the arts and he enjoyed his hobby of dancing with his wife.

Dr. Liem is survived by his wife, Ann, and two children, Karen and Jason.

A funeral service will be held June 23 at 11 a.m. at McCabe Funeral Home, Farmington Hills Chapel, 31950 West 12 Mile Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48334. For more information, call 248-553-0120.