The Team

Cardiac arrest is a multisystem problem. Solving it requires expertise across clinical care, engineering, data science, pre-hospital medicine and product development. That is what our team brings.

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Project Leads

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Principal Investigator
Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation
University of Michigan

Cindy Hsu, MD, PhD, MS

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Co-Investigator
Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
University of Michigan

Sardar Ansari, PhD

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Co-Investigator
Sensor Engineering
University of Michigan

Kenn Oldham, PhD

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Co-Investigator
Preclinical Modeling
University of Michigan

Hakam Tiba, MD, MS

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Co-Investigator
Design Thinking & Go-To-Market Strategy
University of Michigan/Blue Cottage

Ben Bassin, MD

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Co-Investigator
Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Ryan Morgan, MD

Advisors

Robert Sutton, MD, MS

Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

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Drew Bennett

Commercialization
U-M Innovation Partnerships

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Kayvan Najarian, PhD

Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
University of Michigan

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Robert Neumar, MD, PhD

Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation
University of Michigan

Consultants

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James Price, MBBS

Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation & Helicopter EMS
East Anglian Air Ambulance

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Paul Rees, MBBS

Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation & Helicopter EMS
University of Minnesota

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Juliet Rogers

Design Thinking
Blue Cottage of CannonDesign

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Aaron Call

Go-To-Market Strategy
Blue Cottage of CannonDesign

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Kimberly Silver

Design Thinking
Blue Cottage of CannonDesign

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Christine Kiefer

Design Thinking
Blue Cottage of CannonDesign

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Gene Parunak

Prototyping & Innovation
in2being

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Shepherd Smith

Design Engineer & FDA Regulatory Consultation
in2being

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Emma Callewaert

Product Development
in2being

Key Research Staff

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Zach Sharpe

Data Science & Preclinical Lab
University of Michigan

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Negar Farzaneh, PhD

Data Science
University of Michigan

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Suranjan Ottikutti

Data Science
University of Michigan

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Peter Walczyk

Data Engineer
University of Michigan

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Nick Greer

Preclinical Lab
University of Michigan

Celina Gomez

Preclinical Lab
University of Michigan

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Kyleigh Moll

Preclinical Lab
University of Michigan

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Courtney Dennis

Preclinical Lab
University of Michigan

The University of Michigan "Block M"

Amanda Cai

Preclinical Lab
University of Michigan

The University of Michigan "Block M"

Hannah Matich

Preclinical Lab
University of Michigan

Early Career Investigators

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Florian Schmitzberger, MD, MS

University of Michigan

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Alex Janke,
MD, MHS

University of Michigan

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Laura Harding-Jackson, DO, PhD

University of Michigan

Ella Purington,
MD

University of Michigan

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University of Michigan

Stephen Dowker

Project Managers

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Jay Semerad

University of Michigan

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Jennifer Fowler, RN, BSN

University of Michigan

Support Staff

Lisa Coon

Event Planning
University of Michigan

Kate Murphy

Graphic Design
University of Michigan