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Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine
University of Michigan, School of Medicine
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Prashant Mahajan MD MPH MBA is Professor and Vice-Chair in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Division Chief for Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan. He is a pediatric health services and outcomes researcher. His main area of research interest is optimizing clinician decision making in the emergency department to enhance quality of care, reduce patient harm, and improve performance of healthcare systems. His research focuses on infections (evaluation and management of febrile infants), developing clinically meaningful decision rules in the evaluation of febrile infants and inflammation (asthma, sepsis), and clinical decision making in a cognitively dense acute care setting to reduce diagnostic errors.
He is the Chair of Emergency Medicine Education & Research by Global Experts (EMERGE), a global emergency medicine research network (www.emergenetwork.org). The EMERGE network brings together emergency departments from across the globe to generate and implement new evidence and train the workforce in emergency care research.
Dr. Mahajan is the Director of the Research and Education in Acute Care with Advanced Technology (REACT), where a collaborative team of EM physicians, nurses, engineers, educators, programmers and designers are working to identify and integrate innovative tools for training providers and identifying methods to incorporate technology to provide acute care.
He has been serially funded by the National Institutes of Health for his work on the evaluation and management of the febrile infant for the past two decades. Additionally, he has received two Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality awards to evaluate how diagnosis related decisions are made under austere circumstances and to develop interventions mitigating the impact of error on patient safety and quality of care.