Cemal Burak Sozener, MD, MEng, FACEP, FAAEM, FAHA
Co-Director of Comprehensive Stroke Program
Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Clinical Professor of Neurology
Emergency Medicine
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Taubman Center B1-354
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5303
[email protected]

Available to mentor
Cemal Burak Sozener, MD, MEng, FACEP, FAAEM, FAHA
Clinical Professor
  • About
  • Qualifications
  • Research Overview
  • Recent Publications
    • About

    As a physician experienced in both pre-hospital and hospital education on acute stroke care, Dr. Sozener has worked with the INSTINCT research team at the University of Michigan and led past efforts in both qualitative and quantitative interventions and analysis for that study in addition to working with the numerous physicians, nurses, and other staff personnel throughout the entire INSTINCT network. He is currently completing an NIH funded StrokeNet fellowship.

    Administrative Contact
    Cindy Trafford
    [email protected]

    Qualifications
    • MD
      University of Michigan Medical School, 1500 East Medical Center Dr., 2003
    • MSE
      University of Michigan College of Engineering, College of Engineering, Nuclear Engineering 2355 Bonisteel BLVD, Cooley Building, 1999
    • BS
      University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science and the Arts, MI, 1996
    Research Overview

    • Disparities of stroke care between differing racial and socioeconomic classes. This has been through my involvement as an investigator in the Brain Attack Surveillance in Corpus Christi (BASIC) project, a long-standing population-based stroke study comparing access to stroke care for Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic whites
    • Acute Ischemic Stroke Clinical Trials to advance the field in best care strategies for patients presenting with acute neurological injuries. My clinical trial involvement to date has been in: Neurological Emergencies Treatment trials (NETT); Increasing Stroke Treatment through Interventional Behavior Change Tactics (INSTINCT) trial; Stroke Hyperglycemia Insulin Network Effort (SHINE) trial; StrokeNet Endovascular Therapy Following Imaging Evaluation for Ischemic Stroke (DEFUSE 3); Multi-arm Optimization of Stroke Thrombolysis (MOST) trial; Thrombolysis in Imaging-eligible, Late-window Patients to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of Tenecteplase (TIMELESS) trial; SIREN Influence of Cooling duration on Efficacy in Cardiac Arrest Patients (ICECAP) trial
    • Acute Ischemic Stroke, specifically the strategies to more efficiently diagnose and manage these patients with the goal of improving long-term disability and mortality as a result of neurological injury
    • Medical education research, specifically the study of a learner's transition from undergraduate to graduate medical education
    • Pre-Hospital Medicine, specifically the intersection of prehospital medicine relating to acute neurological injuries as well as bringing technology into the ambulance to assist with more timely and accurate care of these critically ill patients
    • Stroke Systems of Care, specifically researching how academic medical centers can impact stroke care delivery in community hospitals through education
    • Studying clinician involvement in lean facility design to significantly enhance the built environment for new and renovated healthcare facilities to better care for critically ill patients

    Recent Publications See All Publications
    • Journal Article
      Influence of Cooling duration on Efficacy in Cardiac Arrest Patients (ICECAP): study protocol for a multicenter, randomized, adaptive allocation clinical trial to identify the optimal duration of induced hypothermia for neuroprotection in comatose, adult survivors of after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
      Meurer WJ, Schmitzberger FF, Yeatts S, Ramakrishnan V, Abella B, Aufderheide T, Barsan W, Benoit J, Berry S, Black J, Bozeman N, Broglio K, Brown J, Brown K, Carlozzi N, Caveney A, Cho S-M, Chung-Esaki H, Clevenger R, Conwit R, Cooper R, Crudo V, Daya M, Harney D, Hsu C, Johnson NJ, Khan I, Khosla S, Kline P, Kratz A, Kudenchuk P, Lewis RJ, Madiyal C, Meyer S, Mosier J, Mouammar M, Neth M, O'Neil B, Paxton J, Perez S, Perman S, Sozener C, Speers M, Spiteri A, Stevenson V, Sunthankar K, Tonna J, Youngquist S, Geocadin R, Silbergleit R, ICECAP trial investigators . Trials, 2024 Jul 23; 25 (1): 502 DOI:10.1186/s13063-024-08280-w
      PMID: 39044295
    • Preprint
      Influence of Cooling duration on Efficacy in Cardiac Arrest Patients (ICECAP): study protocol for a multicenter, randomized, adaptive allocation clinical trial to identify the optimal duration of induced hypothermia for neuroprotection in comatose, adult survivors of after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
      Meurer W, Schmitzberger F, Yeatts S, Ramakrishnan V, Abella B, Aufderheide T, Barsan W, Benoit J, Berry S, Black J, Bozeman N, Broglio K, Brown J, Brown K, Carlozzi N, Caveney A, Cho S-M, Chung-Esaki H, Clevenger R, Conwit R, Cooper R, Crudo V, Daya M, Harney D, Hsu C, Johnson NJ, Khan I, Khosla S, Kline P, Kratz A, Kudenchuk P, Lewis RJ, Madiyal C, Meyer S, Mosier J, Mouammar M, Neth M, O'Neil B, Paxton J, Perez S, Perman S, Sozener C, Speers M, Spiteri A, Stevenson V, Sunthankar K, Tonna J, Youngquist S, Geocadin R, Silbergleit R. 2024 Jun 21; DOI:10.21203/rs.3.rs-4033108/v1
      PMID: 38947064
    • Presentation
      Clinical Career Kickstart
      Sozener C, Paradis K, Wixson M, Ruff A. 2024 Mar;
    • Journal Article
      Developing a Career in Stroke as an Emergency Physician.
      Mamer LE, Sozener CB, Richards CT, Meurer WJ. Stroke, 2023 Sep; 54 (9): e431 - e433. DOI:10.1161/STROKEAHA.122.040114
      PMID: 37526010
    • Journal Article
      Black Americans have worse stroke outcome compared with non-Hispanic whites.
      Morgenstern LB, Springer MV, Porter NC, Kwicklis M, Carrera JF, Sozener CB, Campbell MS, Hijazi I, Lisabeth LD. J Natl Med Assoc, 2023 Oct; 115 (5): 509 - 515. DOI:10.1016/j.jnma.2023.08.003
      PMID: 37634970
    • Additional Scholarship
      Stroke Warning: B.E. F.A.S.T., Instagram Post on @umichmedicine the profile for Michigan Medicine
      Sozener C, Carrera J. 2023 May 1;
    • Presentation
      Emergency Department Design - Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
      2023 Mar 9;
    • Presentation
      Design of a New Academic ED: Merging High-Fidelity Mock-Ups with Simulated Patient Care Scenarios
      2022 Oct 8;