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The Media Team gives a glimpse of the life-saving work Michigan Medicine does every day.

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The Michigan Medicine Media Team provides assistance to news reporters, photographers, video crews and bloggers who wish to arrange phone/online interviews or in-person sessions with physicians, scientists, staff, students and patients from any area of Michigan Medicine, including the Medical School and all the facilities and programs of U-M Health.

We encourage you to contact us. Our assistance, whether in arranging a simple phone conversation or an elaborate video, makes the work go much more smoothly for all involved. Our assistance and approval for in-person visits by media is required.

Members of the media: Please call 734-764-2220 between 8 am and 5 pm Eastern Time for assistance.

After business hours, and on weekends and holidays, we have a person on call for urgent matters — see the Contact Our Media Team page for information.
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Breakthrough T1D U-M-OHSU Cardiorenal Center of Excellence to focus on heart and kidney disease in type 1 diabetes
reakthrough T1D, formerly JDRF, the leading global type 1 diabetes (T1D) research and advocacy organization, has awarded more than $2.8 million over three years for the Breakthrough T1D Center of Excellence at the University of Michigan and Oregon Health & Science University, creating the Breakthrough T1D U-M-OHSU Cardiorenal Center of Excellence.
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Enabling stroke victims to “speak”: $19M toward brain implants to be built at U-M
A new collaboration between the University of Michigan and Stanford University aims to give stroke patients the ability to “speak” by detecting and interpreting brain signals, using the world’s smallest computers linked up to the world’s most biocompatible sensors.
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Jill Martin to headline Michigan Medicine Women’s Health Luncheon
Jill Martin, Emmy Award-winning television personality and TODAY show contributor, will be the keynote speaker for Michigan Medicine’s Women’s Health Luncheon: Creating a Brighter Future Together.
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