Danielle Jimenez

In 2022, the Emergency Department launched its sepsis team, which partners with sepsis teams across the hospital to strengthen recognition and care. Nowhere have improvements been greater than in the Adult Emergency Department. Innovations such as nurse-initiated sepsis screening, electronic medical record alerts, and “sepsis huddles” have improved communications and bundle compliance for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock. Since 2020, these efforts have reduced mortality by 6.5% — an estimated 393 lives saved.

If you’ve ever waited in an emergency department, you know it can be stressful and long. At Michigan Medicine’s Adult Emergency Services (AES), teams are working to improve comfort, communication, bedside technology, and, ultimately, reduce wait times.

Every second counts during a prolonged seizure. Known as status epilepticus, these seizures won’t stop on their own, and if not treated fast, they can lead to brain damage, ICU stays, or death. Michigan Medicine is now leading a major clinical trial that could change how these patients are treated in the emergency department. The study, called KESETT (Ketamine add-on therapy for Established Status Epilepticus Treatment Trial), funded by the NIH, will test whether adding ketamine to current treatments can stop seizures more effectively.

Artificial intelligence is transforming medicine nationwide — and at the University of Michigan, the Department of Emergency Medicine is moving faster and thinking bigger. Rather than using AI as a one-off tool, the department is adopting it as a core strategy — reshaping everything from education and clinical decision-making to operations, discovery and diagnostics. It’s a vision that places emergency medicine at the forefront of AI’s role in redefining academic medicine.

Thanks to a $1.2 million Department of Defense grant, scientists in the Department of Emergency Medicine can now study cells too fragile to image previously — pushing brain injury research forward with two advanced microscopes and a state-of-the-art brain monitor.

Michigan Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine is tackling one of the deadliest and most overlooked hospital-acquired infections with a $40 device.

This weekend, the Emergency Department came together to welcome our newest class of emergency medicine trainees at the annual Welcome Picnic, at Island Park in Ann Arbor.

Sepsis is one of the deadliest conditions treated in emergency departments, and one Michigan Medicine physician-scientist is working on a way to stop it. Dr. Katrina Muraglia, MD, PhD, a resident physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Michigan Medicine and a PhD-trained biochemist, has received a $300,000 Research Training Grant from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Foundation (SAEMF) to support her work developing a novel approach to prevent and treat catheter-associated bloodstream infections, a leading cause of sepsis in hospitals.

Every year, nearly 800,000 Americans experience a stroke, an event that is a leading cause of disability. At Michigan Medicine, the Comprehensive Stroke and Telestroke Programs are designed to meet those needs with urgency, innovation, and compassion, grounded in decades of leadership in emergency medicine.

The Department of Emergency Medicine is proud to announce that Prashant Mahajan, M.D., MPH, MBA, Professor and Department Chair, has been awarded the William G. Barsan Collegiate Professorship in Emergency Medicine, one of the University of Michigan’s highest faculty honors.

The Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan honored its graduating residents and fellows on June 13 in Ann Arbor with a heartfelt and laughter-filled celebration. The night marked not just the end of an intense training journey, but the start of a new chapter for the Class of 2025.

Michigan Medicine’s Survival Flight is powered by more than rotors and fuel, it’s powered by the skill, heart, and grit of a 22-person nursing team. Beyond the life-saving missions, it’s their passion for innovation, education, and service that truly sets them apart.

From Ann Arbor to Honolulu, Michigan Medicine made waves at this year’s Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) conference — sharing groundbreaking research, connecting across institutions, and spotlighting its growing impact in pediatric emergency medicine (PEM).

This week saw the official grand opening of the Department of Emergency Medicine’s lactation room, a step toward supporting working parents. The May 27 ribbon-cutting came after years of advocacy and collaboration throughout the department.

The Department of Emergency Medicine is proud to celebrate the promotion of all ten faculty members proposed this cycle. Approved by the University of Michigan Board of Regents May 15 and effective August 25, 2025, these promotions span the clinical, research, and tenure tracks.