
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
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Maureen Ford, MD, is a board-certified emergency medicine and addiction medicine physician with Southwestern Michigan Emergency Services practicing in Bronson Emergency Departments. She is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at WMed. She practices addiction medicine at WMed Family Medicine Crosstown Parkway. She is a graduate of the Lee Honors College at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She earned her medical degree from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine in East Lansing, Michigan. She completed her emergency medicine residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan and obtained addiction medicine certification through the practice pathway with the support of the Michigan Collaborative Addiction Resources & Education System (MI-CARES) program.
Dr. Ford's professional interests include improving care for patients with substance use disorders in EDs and hospitals by supporting care teams through education, evidence-based protocol development and establishing partnerships for continued care in the community after discharge. She also served for eight years in elected office as a member of the Mattawan Consolidated School Board of Education.
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Board Certification
- American Board of Emergency Medicine
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Education and Training
- Residency 2008, Emergency Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital
- MD 2005, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University
- BS 1999, Biomedical Sciences and Spanish, Lee Honors College, Western Michigan University
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Language Fluency
- Spanish, functional
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Publications
McGlinchey Ford M., Rogotzke C.D., Bencik S.L., Billian J.R., Young J.L., Bencik C.D., Mastenbrook J.D. Teaching Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation to Later Elementary School Students Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2024;83:385-393.
DeWaard S., Dewyer Z., Al Assil T., Gallap R., Patrick L., Fukuda N., Ford M. An educational intervention in the emergency department seeking to improve COVID-19 vaccination rates among unvaccinated patients aged 20-64 Infection, Disease and Health. 2023;28:276-281.
Wurster A., Bauler L., Howing C., McGlinchey Ford M. A novel presentation of childhood systemic lupus erythematosus in a 6-year-old child Lupus. 2022;31:1276-1279.
Cox L., Feng S., CaƱar J., Ford M., Tercyak K. Social and behavioral correlates of cigarette smoking among mid-atlantic Latino primary care patients Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention. 2005;14(8):1976-1980.
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Presentations
- Implementation of an emergency department (ED) quality improvement program to improve care for ED patients with opioid use disorder at four southwest Michigan hospitals. Nekkanti S, Paquin Z, Bodenberg P, Brousseau S, McKenzie S, Phillips A, Bettis W, Cameron C, Kerschner M, Ford MM, 42nd Annual Kalamazoo Community and Health Sciences Research Day, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 04/2024
- Use of a Checklinst and Metronome during Simulated Cardiac Arrest by Medical Students Trained as Medical First Responders. Hoyle J, Hughes N, Rantz B, Ford M, Pazderka P, Wheeler J, Harmer B, Mastenbrook J, Fales W, Williams M, 41st Annual Kalamazoo Community Medical and Health Sciences Research Day, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 05/2023
- Teaching HINTS+: Designing a curriculum to teach Emergency Medicine physicians to apply and interpret the HINTS+ exam in dizzy patients. Ford MM, Howing C, Nguyen NC, Redinger K, Higby H, Wilson R, 40th Annual Kalamazoo Community Medical and Health Sciences Research Day, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 04/2022
- Quality Improvement (QI) Intervention seeking to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates among unvaccinated patients aged 20-64 years in the Emergency Department. DeWaard S, Dewyer Z, Hauber N, Donham C, Wuensch A, Recknagel J, Hoffman E, Gallap R, Ford M, 40th Annual Kalamazoo Community Medical and Health Sciences Research Day, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 04/2022
- Teacher Trial: Teaching Effective CPR to 4th and 5th Grade Elementary Students. Rogotzke C, Bencik S, Billian J, Ford M, Elg N, Bencik C, Mastenbrook J, 38th Annual Kalamazoo Community Medical and Health Sciences Virtual Research Day, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 04/2021
- A Novel Presentation of Childhood Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in a 6-Year-Old Child. Wurster A, Bauler L, Howing C, Ford M, 38th Annual Kalamazoo Community Medical and Health Sciences Virtual Research Day, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 04/2021
- Implementation of an Emergency Department Quality Improvement Program to Improve Care in Opioid Use Disorder at Four Southwest Michigan Hospitals. Paquin Z, Brousseau S, McKenzie S, Kerschner M, Ford M, 41st Annual Kalamazoo Community Medical & Health Sciences Research Day, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 05/2017