Welcome to Emergency Medicine
Message from our Chair, Dr. Michael Kamali 
There has never been a time like now in our Department of Emergency Medicine. The combination of compassionate clinical care, residency education, and clinical and translational research is thriving at the University of Rochester. As a member of the Strong Community for the past 10 years, I have witnessed an explosion of talent merging with state of the art science and world class patient care at our institution.
Michael Kamali, MD, FACEP
Chair, Emergency Medicine
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY 14642
Administrative Contact: 585-463-2942
Fax 585-473-3516
2012 HealthGrades Award Recipient
HealthGrades 2012 has awarded us with an Emergency Medicine Excellence Award!
We are the only Rochester area ED to receive this award.
We can all be proud of the excellent patient care we provide.
Faculty Spotlight
Peter Crane was awarded one of the 2011 ECRIP (Empire Clinical
Research Investigator Program) grants for his study “Situational Workload Models of
Emergency Physicians and Nursing Work Flow and Their Impact on ED Overcrowding”.
SAEM has awarded an Institutional Research Training Grant to Manish Shah and the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Jeffrey Bazarian was featured in “Brain scan study spotlights risks of high school football, hockey” on
cbsnews.com
Nicole Acquisto has been awarded Researcher of the Year for 2011 by the New York State Chapter of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.
