Michael
Brenner,
MD, F.A.C.S.
Associate Professor
University of Michigan
Michael J. Brenner, M.D., F.A.C.S. is Associate Professor and Co-Director of Branch Science at University of Michigan Medical School. His interest in interprofessional education emphasizes diversity, equity, and inclusion. He co-chairs an Experiential Innovation Workgroup in IPE at University of Michigan's Center for Interprofessional Education. Nationally, he chairs the Outcomes Research & Evidence-Based Medicine Committee and an NIH-format study section for the American Academy of Otolaryngology -- Head Neck Surgery. He is president of Global Tracheostomy Collaborative, whose learning community spans >200 institutions in 25 countries. Dr. Brenner's research program has garnered NIH funding, foundation grants, and resulted in over 200 publications. Dr. Brenner is passionate about growing future leaders and has mentored dozens of interprofessional learners.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
This multi-institutional project demonstrated how a structured approach to interprofessional collaboration and patient engagement can mitigate preventable harm and improve patient experience for patients with a surgical airway (tracheostomy). Care of such patients is high stakes and fraught with risk. Harm occurs in hospital settings and in the community because poor communication and fragmented care are pervasive. Poor coordination of care contributes to anxiety, frustrations, and complications. Avoidable visits to emergency departments or injury are all too common. We applied an…