Dr. Vineet Chopra is Associate Professor of Medicine (with tenure) and Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at Michigan Medicine.
A career hospitalist, Dr. Chopra's research is dedicated to improving the safety of hospitalized patients through prevention of hospital-acquired complications. His work focuses on identifying and preventing complications associated with central venous catheters with a particular emphasis on peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs). Dr. Chopra is funded by extramural and foundation grants from AHRQ, NIH and CDC among others.
Dr. Chopra is the recipient of numerous teaching and research awards including the 2016 Kaiser Permanente Award for Clinical Teaching, the Jerome W. Conn Award for Outstanding Research in the Department of Medicine, the 2016 Society of Hospital Medicine Award for Excellence in Research and the 2014 McDevitt Award for Research Excellence. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and serves as Associate Editor for the American Journal of Medicine and Journal of Hospital Medicine.