K12 Career Development Program
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Thanks to NIH funding, Weil offers a three-year, multidisciplinary training program in emergency critical care research.

Scholars may choose mentoring teams led by nationally known senior clinician-scientists in Emergency Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Neurology, General and Trauma Surgery, Cardiovascular Disease, Biomedical Engineering, and Biostatistics. This gives trainees an understanding of all phases of emergency critical care research.

With the help of their mentoring team, scholars are able to design their three-year development plan including academic courses, professional development training, and research milestones. Through training in clinical trial design, grant writing, data management, and leadership, scholars will advance their research career with the goal of obtaining individual K or R01 funding by the end of their third year of K12 support.
What You Will Gain

Weil Institute K12 Career Development Program is co-directed by David J. Pinsky, M.D. (U-M Samuel Frankel Cardiovascular Center) and Robert Neumar, M.D., Ph.D. (U-M Emergency Medicine). The program offers a range of benefits, including:

  • $100,000 salary (plus benefits)
  • $25,000 supply budget
  • $2,500 travel budget
  • Broad knowledge and training in modern clinical and translational science
  • Coursework to address gaps in scientific training
  • Opportunity to pursue an M.S. in Clinical Research Design and Statistical Analysis (CRDSA)
  • Become an affiliate of the Weil Institute, the Cardiovascular Center Clinical Research (C3RG) Group, and other relevant multidisciplinary 
    U-M research centers
Who Should Apply?

Junior faculty from diverse backgrounds with demonstrated commitment to emergency critical care research and innovative approaches to diagnosing, monitoring, and treating patients.

We are currently accepting applications for a flexible start date.

Questions about the program? Contact Denise Wieck or call 734-647-4751.
Meet the K12 Scholars

Christopher Fung, MD
Dr. Fung’s major areas of research interest are the development of novel point-of-care ultrasound technologies and applications, emergency management of acute heart failure, and the development of noninvasive technologies for the monitoring of critically ill patients. His clinical interests include heart failure, sepsis, resuscitation and emergency ultrasound.

Cindy Hsu, MD, PhD
Dr. Hsu's research is focusing on the use of valproic acid (VPA) to improve outcomes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients.

David Machado-Aranda, MD
Dr. Aranda is focusing on the use of gene therapy to treat trauma-related pneumonia and sepsis using an electroporation delivery system.
Weil Institute Re-Imagining Critical Care Seminar Series

The Weil Institute Re-Imagining Critical Care Seminar Series brings in recognized University of Michigan faculty and other national experts in the fields of medicine, engineering, technology development, policy, and many others to discuss the basic and advanced concepts in innovation and how these can be applied to gaps that exist in emergency and critical care.

Seminars are held once a month and are open to the entire critical care, health science, engineering data science, health policy, and innovation-entrepreneurship community.

The Seminar Series line-up, includes:

  • Seminar Series Introduction: Re-Imagining Critical Care Translational Science: Kevin Ward, MD
  • Innovation Fundamentals: Design Thinking and Innovation in Critical Care: Joyce Lee, MD
  • Innovation Challenges and Opportunities in Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation: Robert Neumar, MD, PhD
  • Innovation Fundamentals: The Regulatory Environment and FDA in Critical Care: Kevin Weatherwax/MICHR
  • Innovation Challenges and Opportunities in Critical Care Monitoring: Kevin Ward, MD
  • Innovation Fundamentals: Customer Discovery in Critical Care: David Olson, PhD
  • Innovation Fundamentals and Opportunities in Critical Care Biomarker Discovery: Fred Korley MD
  • Innovation Challenges and Opportunities in Respiratory Failure and ARDS: TBA
  • Innovation Challenges and Opportunities in Leveraging the Microbiome in Critical Care: Robert Dickson, MD
  • Innovation Fundamentals in Therapeutic Drug Discovery in Critical Care: Vince Groppi, PhD
  • Innovation Challenges and Opportunities in Sepsis: TBA
  • Innovation Fundamentals in the Use of Data Science and Machine Learning in Critical Care: Kayvan Najarian, PhD
  • Innovation Challenges and Opportunities in Implementation Science: Anne Sales, PhD, RN
  • Innovation Fundamentals in Emergency and Critical Care Device Design: James Geiger, MD
  • Innovation Fundamentals: Intellectual Property Development in Critical Care: Drew Bennett
  • Innovation Challenges and Opportunities in Trauma and Combat Casualty Care: Kevin Ward, MD
  • Innovation Challenges and Opportunities in Epigenetics and Critical Care: Steve Kunkel, PhD
  • Innovation Challenges and Opportunities in Transfusion Medicine and Hemostasis: Nathan White, MD
  • Innovation Fundamentals for Micro-Electrical-Mechanical (MEMS) Technologies in Critical Care: Kenn Oldham, PhD
  • Innovation and Challenges in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Critical Care: William Bartlett, MD
  • Innovation Fundamentals: Entrepreneurship in Critical Care: University of Michigan Venture Center
  • Innovation Challenges and Opportunities in Critical Care Health Policy and Health Services Research: Jack Iwashyna, MD, PhD
  • Innovation Challenges and Opportunities in Metabolomics and Critical Care: Kathleen Stringer
  • Innovation Funding Opportunities at the University of Michigan: Brad Martin FFMI and Tom Marten Coulter Foundation
  • Innovation Challenges and Opportunities in Critical Care Trial Design: William Barsan, MD
  • Innovation Fundamentals: Physiologic Signal Processing in Critical Care: Sardar Ansari, PhD
  • Innovation Challenges and Opportunities in Traumatic Brain Injury: Hasan Alam, MD
  • Innovation Fundamentals: Use of Mixed Method Statistical Design in Critical Care: Brahmajee Nallamothu, MD
  • Innovation Challenges and Opportunities in Emergency and Critical Care Ethics: TBA
  • Innovation Fundamentals and Opportunities in Critical Care Mobile Technologies: Larry An, MD
  • Innovation Fundaments and Opportunities in Biointerface Science in Critical Care: Scott VanEpps, MD, PhD
  • Innovation Fundamentals and Opportunities for Industrial-Operational Design Engineering in Critical Care: Amy Cohn, PhD
  • Innovation Fundamentals for Microfluidic Technologies in Critical Care: Mark Burns, MD
  • Innovation Challenges and Opportunities in the Post Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS): Hallie Prescott, MD
  • Innovation Fundamentals and Opportunities in Critical Care Image Analysis: Kayvan Najarian, MD
  • Innovation Challenges and Opportunities in Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care: Rodney Daniels, MD
  • Innovation Fundamentals for Large Animal Model Design in Critical Care: M. Hakam Tiba, MD
  • Innovation Fundamentals and Opportunities in Systems Biology in Critical Care: Dan Beard, PhD