Frederick Korley, MD, PhD

Dr. Korley is a Professor and the Associate Chair for Research in Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan. He is also the scientific director of the Massey TBI Grand Challenge, sponsored by the Weil Institute at the University of Michigan. This challenge distributes up to $750,000 annually to investigators with high-risk and high-reward ideas for developing novel diagnostics and therapeutics for traumatic brain injury (TBI).
He completed his medical degree and residency training in emergency medicine at Northwestern University, where he served as chief resident. Subsequently, he completed a doctoral degree in clinical investigation at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He was formerly on faculty at Johns Hopkins University where he was the inaugural recipient of the Robert E. Meyerhoff Endowed Professorship.
Dr. Korley has conducted pioneering work in uncovering and quantifying gaps in emergency department evaluation and management of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and has developed novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to bridge these gaps. He is a PI of several NIH and Department of Defense-funded studies that aim to develop novel therapies for TBI and to use blood-based biomarkers to monitor response to therapy. He holds four patents for panels of brain‑injury biomarkers and the methods used to measure them at the bedside. Dr. Korley’s research has been published as first-author manuscripts in high-impact journals such as NEJM, JAMA, JAMA Cardiology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and Lancet Neurology. He is the recipient of the 2021 SAEM Mid-Career Investigator Award. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigators and the National Academy of Medicine.

• Development of Novel Diagnostics and Therapeutics for Traumatic Brain Injury
• Building an Emergency Medicine Learning Health System