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.

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.

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.

Michigan Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine is tackling one of the deadliest and most overlooked hospital-acquired infections: ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Affecting one in ten ventilated patients and responsible for the majority of deaths from healthcare-associated infections, VAP adds about nine days to ICU stays and costs more than $40,000 per case.

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.

Honoring the fiftieth anniversary of the inaugural 1975 meeting, the conference was a celebration of both the history and the future of resuscitation science.