Benjamin S. Bassin, MD, FACEP, EDAC

Dr. Benjamin Bassin, MD, FACEP, EDAC is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director of the Emergency Critical Care Center, Director of Intellectual Property and Technology Development at the University of Michigan and the Vice President and Innovation Fellow at CannonDesign. He received his B.S. and M.D. degrees from the University of Michigan and completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati, where he served as chief resident. He has served in a number of process improvement, healthcare facility design and administrative leadership roles at the department and institutional levels. Prior to joining Blue Cottage of CannonDesign as its inaugural Innovation Fellow, he served as the Director of the Emergency Critical Care Center (EC3), the first and largest ED-ICU in the U.S. Additionally, he has been an advisor and the chief medical officer of a number of medical device start-up companies and founded his own consulting company focused on providing expertise at the intersection of clinical care delivery and optimized healthcare design. He is recognized as an international expert in emergency critical care delivery design and has been invited to consult and lecture around the world on healthcare design, device innovation as well as serve on many national and international task forces on emergency critical care delivery.