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Vikas I. Parekh, MD is a Professor of Internal Medicine (Hospital Medicine) at the University of Michigan where he is the Associate Chief Medical Officer for UM-Health. He was previously Associate Chief Clinical Officer for the Adult Hospitals and Associate Director of the Hospitalist Program for many years. In his current role he leads UM-Health system wide effort to improve patient flow, improve care progression and length and stay and enhance quality and safety in various areas. He leads the M2C2 (Michigan Medicine Capacity Operations and Real Time Engagement Center) project to create a command center to improve operations in these areas. In addition, he has led much of the hospital’s work on readmissions, capacity management and leads an operational analytics team working to optimize capacity and patient flow through the use of sophisticated analytic and predictive modeling tools.Dr. Parekh is a graduate of the Harvard Medical School and completed his residency training at the University of Michigan. Nationally he is past-chair of the Society of Hospital Medicine’s (SHM) Academic Committee and Education Committee. He is also a member and treasurer of the council for the Association of Specialty Professors (ASP) in the Alliance of Academic Internal Medicine. He was also co-chair and co-founder of the Society of General Internal Medicine’s (SGIM) Academic Hospitalist Task Force for 5 years. He is the co-director of the Academic Hospitalist Academy. Dr. Parekh has won several teaching and service awards including the Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize, the Chair's Award for Impact, the Special Recognition Award for Contributions to the House Officer Teaching Program, the H. Marvin Pollard Award, the Department of Medicine’s highest award for resident teaching and was inducted into the Medical School’s League of Educational Excellence.
He is actively involved in clinical research, co-authoring 13 peer reviewed articles.
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1500 E Medical Center Dr, Spc 5352, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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