Rebecca Cunningham, MD

William G. Barsan Collegiate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine
Vice President for Research, U-M Office of the Vice President for Research
Principal Investigator, Firearm Safety Among Children and Teens (FACTS) Consortium
Office of the Vice President for Research
Ruthven G. Alexander Building
1109 Geddes Ave. Suite 1300
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
 
734-763-1290

Administrative Contact

Karen Houghtaling
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Biography

Dr. Rebecca Cunningham is vice president for research at the University of Michigan, where she is responsible for fostering the excellence and integrity of research across all three campuses.

She has vast experience as a researcher, administrator, educator and clinician, including more than 20 years spent as an emergency medicine physician at U-M and Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan.

Cunningham’s career has focused on injury prevention, opioid overdose, substance misuse prevention, firearm injury prevention and public health.

She is the former Director of the U-M Injury Prevention Center, established a national consortium to improve firearms safety, served as associate vice president for research-health sciences and is the former associate chair for research for the U-M Department of Emergency Medicine.

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