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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.

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.

Mental health crisis care options have grown, from the 988 suicide lifeline to behavioral health urgent care, partial hospitalization and more, as this explainer of care levels describes.

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.

Most strokes are ischemic, meaning blood flow to part of the brain is blocked by a clot. Here, a neurologist shares treatment options and how providers decide when time is short.

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.

The K12 Neuro-EM Scholars Program, launched in 2024 at the University of Michigan’s Weil Institute and funded by the NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, is the first national initiative designed to train early-career emergency medicine (EM) faculty in neurological research. With dedicated funding, mentorship, and a focus on high-impact research, the program supports scholars as they pursue independent research careers focused on critical, time-sensitive neurological emergencies. In its inaugural year, four scholars were selected, with additional support provided through a Pipeline Program for emerging researchers. The initiative is quickly building a nationwide community of EM physician-scientists committed to advancing care for neurological emergencies.