Kevin R.
Ward, M.D.
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r. Kevin Ward is currently professor of emergency medicine and director of the Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care at the University of Michigan Medical School. He graduated cum laude from LSU in 1985 with a bachelor’s degree in zoology and physiology and earned his M.D. in 1989 from Tulane University School of Medicine. He did his residency in emergency medicine at the University of Pittsburgh followed by an Emergency Medicine Research Fellowship at Ohio State University. He is board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Michigan, Dr. Ward was professor, associate chair, and director of research of Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) Department of Emergency Medicine. While there he was a founding member and director of the VCU Reanimation Engineering Science Center (VCURES) and director of its combat casualty care research program, Operation Purple Heart. He has also held academic appointments at the Ohio State University and the Henry Ford Health System. Dr. Ward’s research interests focus on care for the critically ill and injured ranging from children to adults and civilians to those wounded in war. He counts among his accomplishments the development and testing of technologies that save the lives of warriors wounded in combat and the privilege of overseeing the clinical training of more than a thousand Special Operation Combat Medics while at VCU. The latter program garnered recognition by the Department of the Army and the Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center, which presented him a 2012 Certificate of Appreciation for Patriotic Civilian Service. Among his numerous awards for research and education is also the 2010 Billie R. Martin Innovation Award – Inventor of the Year – presented by VCU as well as the Department of Defense’s Advanced Technologies Applications in Combat Casualty Care Award for his research in battlefield hemorrhage control. Dr. Ward is a member and leader in many national and international professional medical organizations such as the Society for Critical Care Medicine, and Shock Society. He has served as an adviser to the U.S. Army and Navy on combat casualty carerelated matters. The Ward family supports a number of civic organizations including the Boy Scouts of America as well as several Christian charities. He is a generous donor to the LSU Alumni Association, College of Science, and Honors College. Dr. Ward and his wife, Alyson, have two children, Abigail and Avery. They reside in Superior Township, Mich. LSU Alumni Magazine | Summer 2013
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