Robert W. Neumar, M.D., Ph.D., a renowned expert in brain damage after cardiac arrest and head trauma, has been appointed chair of the University of Michigan Medical School’s Department of Emergency Medicine, after approval by the U-M Board of Regents yesterday.
Neumar, who will begin July 1, comes to U-M from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where he was an associate professor of emergency medicine and associate director of the Center for Resuscitation Science.
Along with maintaining an active clinical practice at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Neumar conducted extensive research focused on understanding the mechanisms of brain injury, and developing therapies to minimize brain damage and improve the brain’s ability to recover after cardiac arrest and traumatic brain injury.
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