Associate Professor Emergency Medicine, Division of Critical Care
University of Michigan
Dr. Benjamin Bassin is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Critical Care at Michigan Medicine. 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. He has served in a number of process improvement, healthcare facility design and administrative leadership roles at the department and institutional levels. He has served as the Director of the Emergency Critical Care Center (EC3), the first and largest ED-ICU in the U.S. since its opening in 2015. 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. Recently he has joined Blue Cottage of CannonDesign as its inaugural Innovation Fellow and Vice President of Innovation. 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.