Division Chief, Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Fellowship Program Director, Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Biosketch
Dr. Michael Trexler is the program director of the WMED Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship, as well as the Palliative Care Medical Director at Ascension-Borgess Hospital in Kalamazoo, MI. He is a graduate of Houghton College and the University of Rochester School of Medicine (NY). After completing Internal Medicine residency at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (OH), he served as a staff internist there until 2003. After moving to MI to be a hospitalist at Borgess Medical Center (MI), he later started the Palliative Care inpatient consultation program in 2008, including providing clinical rotations for growing numbers of students, residents and fellows. Dr. Trexler enjoys his family, photography, camping, and traveling (including prior medical mission trips to the Caribbean, Central America, and Africa).
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Board Certification
- American Board of Internal Medicine
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Education and Training
- Residency 1999, Internal Medicine, Wright-Patterson US Air Force Medical Center
- MD 1996, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester
- BS 1992, Biology, Houghton College
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Research
- Internal Medicine
- Hospice and palliative
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Publications
Trexler M., Fraser T., Jones M. Fulminant pseudomembranous colitis caused by clindamycin phosphate vaginal cream American Journal of Gastroenterology. 1997;92:2112-2113.
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Presentations
- Goals of care conversations during prehospital cardiac arrest resuscitation. Howing C, Mastenbrook J, Godfrey S, Trexler M, Pazderka P, 42nd Annual Kalamazoo Community and Health Sciences Research Day, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 04/2024