A review of maternal deaths led by Joanna Kountanis, M.D., suggests most individuals had documented behavioral health conditions but only one-third received appropriate pharmacologic treatment before death.
Medical Science Building I, Room M3330
Livestream Available: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93323031431 Passcode: 479788
State of Michigan Chief Medical Officer Natasha Bagdasarian, M.D., will deliver the keynote address, "Recognizing and addressing health inequities: Building upon the lessons learned during COVID-19."
Paul Hilliard, M.D., and Eric Scott, Ph.D., share pain treatment insights with the Michigan Medicine community.
Joanna Kountanis, M.D., and a multidisciplinary team have received funding from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund to launch an initiative that will provide access to mental health care, alternative pain management options throughout pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum.
Last year as part of her DNP program, Jablonski worked to determine if educational interventions could decrease noise in the OR during critical times.
The Rewrite the Script (RWTS) team, which has been making significant recommendations in practice to reduce opioid addiction, recently studied data to discover if there were disparities in the experience of pain for different groups of hospitalized patients.
The Frankel Cardiovascular Center (CVC) averages about 60-70 Type A aortic dissections each year. But one day this winter, Michigan Medicine teams were called on to complete three life-saving procedures in just 24 hours.
Crippling and unexplained back pain led one patient to U-M, where a personalized team approach helped her find relief.
$1.4M/year state grant creates network to link doctors & hospitals around the state for safer prescribing and drug take-back events
