Dr. Bassin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He received a B.S. in Movement Science and Physiology from the University of Michigan in 1998 and his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 2005. He completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati where he served as Chief Resident. Dr. Bassin returned to the University of Michigan in 2009 as faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine. His academic interests include improving the quality, delivery and standardization of care to critically ill patients, advanced airway interventions, and the development of computerized clinical decision support tools. Additionally, he has a focus on LEAN-based healthcare design and was an integral component of the planning, design and implementation team for the largest ED-based ICU in the country, the U-M Emergency Critical Care Center (EC3) where he currently serves as the EC3 Director of Clinical Operations. He is also the Associate Medical Director for Critical Care Transport and the Associate Service Chief for the Department of Emergency Medicine. In these roles, he has an established track record of administrative leadership in process improvement, quality assurance, risk mitigation, and throughput optimization utilizing lean-based strategies.