Dr. Kocher is a practicing emergency physician, faculty in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Learning Health Sciences at U-M, research investigator at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Center for Clinical Management Research, and a health services researcher affiliated with the Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. He is also the Director of the Michigan Emergency Department Improvement Collaborative (MEDIC), a network of hospitals across the state of Michigan dedicated to improving the quality of emergency care for all. His work focuses on optimizing the value of emergency care, performance measurement, quality improvement, and implementation and knowledge translation.
- M.D., University of North Carolina
- M.P.H., University of North Carolina
- M.Phil., History of Medicine, University of Cambridge
- B.A., History and Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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