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Faculty Bio for: Emanuel Rivers MD, MPH Emanuel Rivers, MD, MPH Professor of Critical Care Medicine Henry Ford Hospital Detroit, MI Dr. Emanuel Rivers is Vice Chairman and Director of Research for the Department of Emergency Medicine. He is a Senior Staff Attending Physician in the Surgical Critical Care Unit and the Emergency Department at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. He received his Bachelors of Science, Masters of Public Health, and Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He completed a residency in emergency and internal medicine at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, followed by a fellowship in critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, PA. He is Board certified in Critical Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine. He also has a special competency in Hyperbaric Medicine. Dr. Rivers is a fellow and national research award recipient from the American College of Emergency Physicians (2005), Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (2000), and American College of Chest Physicians (2000). He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, American College of Chest Physicians and long standing member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He has been recently inducted into the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences in 2005. He was voted on of the Top Docs in the city of Detroit for the year 2006. His interests include the examination and treatment of critical illness or the critically ill in the earliest stages of hospital presentation, which includes the Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit. Diseases, which are included in this area, are patients presenting with shock of all kinds (septic or severe infection, trauma or hemorrhage, heart attacks, blood clots to the lung and other shock states such as cardiac arrest). He is am examining new ways to improve upon early detection and more aggressive treatment of these diseases, which cost many lives and consume tremendous health care resources. I am further interest
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