William Barsan, M.D.

          Class of 1968

                    Inducted June 11, 2000 

Dr. Barsan is a 1968 graduate of Revere High School and attended college at the University of Cincinnati and medical school at the Ohio State University, graduating with his M.D. in 1975. He did graduate training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia and the University of Cincinnati from 1975-1979. He was on the medical school faculty at the University of Cincinnati until 1992 when he was recruited to the University of Michigan as Professor and Head of the Section of Emergency Medicine. In 1999, he became the first Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan.

He served as the President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine from 1991-1992 and was a recipient of the Hal Jayne Award for Academic Excellence in Emergency Medicine in 1995. He served as a director of the American Board of Emergency Medicine from 1993-2001 and was the President of the Board in 1998-1999.

He also serves on the Editorial Board of the Annals of Emergency Medicine and is an editor of Rosen’s Emergency Medicine textbook.

Dr. Barsan has been a leading researcher in the emergency treatment of stroke and has authored over 80 publications in various medical journals. He helped pioneer early treatment for patients with stroke, particularly treatment with clot-busting agents. He has served on the Executive Committee of the American Stroke Association, a division of the American Heart Association.

Dr. Barsan makes his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he lives with his wife, Mary (Smithers) Barsan, also a native of Akron. He has three children: David (21), Blake (19) and Anna (16).

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