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Executive Vice-Chair
Department of Emergency Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Michigan, United States
Christopher A. Lewandowski, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, is board-certified in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine. He received his BS degree in Chemistry from Marquette University - Milwaukee in 1976 and his MD from the Medical College of Wisconsin – Milwaukee in 1982. He completed residency programs at the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine from 1982 to 1988.
Dr. Lewandowski is currently the Executive Vice-Chair for Education after 25 years as a Residency Program Director, for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Henry Ford Hospital. He is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at Wayne State University.
His primary area of interest in research is in the Emergency Treatment of Stroke and Neurological Emergencies. He was one of the original t-PA Stroke Study Investigators and one of the original IMS III investigators. He continues his research through NIH sponsored collaborative research networks such as SIREN and StrokeNet. He leads the Emergency Medicine stroke program is part of the leadership of the Henry Ford Comprehensive Stroke Center.