Dr. Kyle Gunnerson

Professor of Emergency Medicine, Anesthesiology, and Internal Medicine/Critical Care 

Dr. Gunnerson has been clinically active in both the Cardiovascular ICU and Emergency Department for more than 20 years. Dr. Gunnerson’s research includes several large collaborative projects funded by both industry and governmental funding agencies. These have ranged from the discovery and development of novel biomarkers in critical illness to the treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock. He has also been active in the development of non-invasive technology used for the identification and treatment of patients with critical illness and injury and was a co-investigator of the first ED based ECMO clinical trial for refractory cardiac arrest. Dr. Gunnerson was the inaugural Chief of the Division of Critical Care in the UM Department of Emergency Medicine and a founder of the Emergency Critical Care Center, the first ICU within an Emergency Department in the US. With extensive experience managing complex cardiac surgery patients and extracorporeal support, he has been instrumental in advancing Emergency Critical Care as a specialty and serves on the board of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.