Kevin R. Ward

Dr. Ward is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan where he also serves as the Executive Director of the Max Harry Weil Institute for Critical Care Research and Innovation. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine.

Dr. Ward’s research and clinical expertise is centered on combat casualty care and the resuscitation and monitoring of the critically ill and injured patient. He is a serial innovator and entrepreneur and an elected Fellow in the National Academy of Inventors. He is the recipient of the university innovator of the year award from both Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Michigan as well as the DoD Advanced Technologies Applications in Combat Casualty Care Award for Excellence. He is also the recipient of both the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the American College of Emergency Physicians Research Excellence Awards.

Dr. Ward serves in the U.S. Army Reserve Medical Corp as a Lieutenant Colonel assigned to Forward Resuscitation Surgical Detachments with combat deployments to Afghanistan and Syria. He has assisted in developing and reviewing US Joint Trauma System Clinical Practice Guidelines for damage control resuscitation and assisted in the development of the 75th Ranger Regiment ROLO program. He has collaborated with the Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center in developing civilian clinical training sites responsible for training over 2000 Special Operation Combat Medics. His discoveries and patents in hemostasis have also been critical and instrumental in the development of the military’s standard issue hemostatic bandage Combat Gauze. In 2024 he was the recipient of the THOR Viking Sword award. Dr. Ward also was instrumental in developing THOR’s ADaPT training program.