He currently coordinates Michigan Medicine’s critical care ultrasound curriculum. Rajajee developed and directed the Neurocritical Care Society’s (NCS) annual critical care ultrasound workshop between 2012-2014, and has served on the Society of Critical Care Medicine’s (SCCM) Ultrasound Committee. He has published several articles on optic nerve ultrasound and transcranial doppler in neurocritical care, and helped pioneer the use of real-time ultrasound guidance during bedside tracheostomy in 2011. He is a diplomate of the National Board of Echocardiography. Rajajee has had a clinical, educational, and research interest in critical care ultrasound since 2007.

He has served as the medical director of neurocritical care since 2014 and as co-director of the comprehensive stroke center since 2017.ĭr. He joined the University of Michigan’s neurosurgery department 2008 as faculty neurointensivist and vascular neurologist. In addition, he has several years of experience in private practice as an attending physician in medical/ surgical intensive care units. Venkatakrishna Rajajee completed his medical training at the Madras Medical College in India followed by residency training in Neurology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York in 2003, and fellowships in Stroke/ Vascular Neurology and Neurological Critical Care at the UCLA Medical Center 2003-2005.

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