Academic Catalog

Emergency Medicine

Office:
4201 Saint Antoine Street
University Health Center, 6G
Detroit, MI 48201
313-993-2530

Chairperson: Brian J. O'Neil, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., F.A.H.A.
http://em.med.wayne.edu/

The Department of Emergency Medicine provides basic life support training and physical diagnosis instruction to M.D. Year 2 students. M.D. Year 3 students receive advanced cardiac life support training and participate in a suture laboratory to learn suture techniques. A mandatory rotation in emergency medicine for all senior students takes place at Detroit Medical Center hospitals or other affiliated hospitals. The fourth year rotation is designed to familiarize the student with:

  1. the evaluation, assessment and stabilization of patients with urgent medical problems;
  2. invasive and noninvasive procedures routinely used in the emergency department;
  3. and management of acutely-ill patients in a timely manner.

Graduate medical education includes two three-year emergency medicine residency programs, based at the Detroit Medical Center (Detroit Receiving Hospital and Sinai-Grace Hospital). Both programs are fully accredited.

BERK, WILLIAM A.: M.D., University of Michigan; B.A., Columbia College; Associate Professor (Clinician-Educator)

DIMITRIJEVSKI, TRIFUN: M.D., M.S., B.S., Wayne State University; Assistant Professor (Clinician-Educator)

DOLCOURT, BRAM: M.D., New York Medical College; M.S., B.A., Brandeis University; Assistant Professor (Clinician-Educator)

DUBEY, ELIZABETH: M.D., Wayne State University School of Medicine, B.S., University of Michigan; Assistant Professor (Clinician-Educator)

DUNNE, ROBERT: M.D., B.A., University of Michigan; Assistant Professor (Clinician-Educator)

EHRMAN, ROBERT: M.D., Feinberg School of Medicine; B.A., Wesleyan University; Clinical Assistant Professor

FAVOT, MARK: M.D., George Washington University; B.S., University of Windsor; Assistant Professor (Clinician-Educator)

GALLIEN, JOHN: M.D., Indiana University School of Medicine; B.S. Purdue University; Assistant Professor (Clinician-Educator)

HABER, BRIAN: M.D.; Assistant Professor (Clinical)

JONES, KERIN A.: M.D., Wayne State University; M.S., University of Michigan; B.A., Northwestern University; Associate Professor (Clinician-Educator)

KAUFMANN, KRISTIANA: M.D., Wayne State University; M.P.H., University of Illinois at Chicago; B.S., University of Michigan; Assistant Professor (Clinician-Educator)

KHAIT, LYUDMILA: M.D., Michigan State University; M.S., Wayne State University; B.S., University of Michigan; Assistant Professor (Clinician-Educator)

KING, ANDREW: M.D., Washington University in St. Louis, B.A., Northwestern University; Assistant Professor (Clinician-Educator)

KLINE, JEFFREY : M.D., Medical College of Virginia; B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Professor

KOUYOUMIJIAN, SARKIS: M.D., B.S., Wayne State University; Assistant Professor (Clinician-Educator)

KUMAR, V. ARUN: M.D., Calcutta National Medical College; M.P.H., University of Michigan; Assistant Professor (Clinician-Educator)

LAGINA, ANTHONY: M.D., Wayne State University; B.S., Michigan State University; Assistant Professor (Clinician-Educator)

LEVY, PHILIP: M.D., New York Medical College; M.P.H., University of Michigan; Professor

LEWALSKI, PHILIP A.: M.D., B.S., Wayne State University; Assistant Professor (Clinician-Educator)

MESSMAN, ANNE: M.D., George Washing University; B.S., University of Michigan; Assistant Professor (Clinician-Educator)

MINIC, ZELJKA: Ph.D., Wayne State University; B.S., University of Detroit Mercy; Assistant Professor (Research-Educator)

O'NEIL, BRIAN J.: M.D., B.S., Wayne State University; Associate Professor

PAXTON, JAMES: M.D., M.B.A., University of Cincinnati; B.A., Case Western Reserve University; Clinical Assistant Professor

PEARSON, CLAIRE: M.D., Central America Health Science University School of Medicine; B.A., B.S., University of Colorado at Denver; Clinical Instructor

REYNOLDS, CHRISTIAN: Ph.D., Wayne State University; B.S., Oregon State University; Assistant Professor (Research-Educator)

SHERWIN, ROBERT: M.D., Wayne State University; Associate Professor (Clinician-Educator)

SMYLIE, LAURA: M.D., Wayne State University; B.S., Michigan State University; B.S., University of Michigan; Assistant Professor (Clinician-Educator)

SONUYI, TOLULOPE: M.D., M.S., University of MIchigan; B.S., University of California - Los Angeles; Assistant Professor (Clinical)

TWINER, MICHAEL: M.D.; Assistant Professor (Clinical Scholar)

VELILLA, MARC-ANTHONY: M.D., M.S., Wayne State University; B.S., University of Michigan; Assistant Professor (Clinician-Educator)

VOHRA, VARUN: Pharm.D.; Assistant Professor (Clinical)

WELCH, ROBERT D.: M.D., Wayne State University; B.S., Michigan State University; Associate Professor (Clinician-Educator)

WILBURN, JOHN: M.D., Ross University School of Medicine; B.S., University of Michigan; Clinical Assistant Professor

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