Dr. Ben Bassin is CannonDesign’s inaugural Innovation Fellow. His ambition lies in cultivating a robust innovation ecosystem and nurturing an entrepreneurial spirit that empowers individuals to translate their ideas into action. This transformative opportunity serves as a force multiplier, empowering the firm to dream expansively, act boldly, and ignite systemic and social change across healthcare.
Ben brings over two decades of real-world experience as an emergency physician, healthcare futurist, serial entrepreneur and career innovator to inform CannonDesign’s process improvement and design strategies for health systems both nationally and internationally. He supports the CannonDesign team while remaining an active physician and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Michigan Medicine and the University of Michigan Medical School. Beyond his clinical expertise, he has been a catalyst for change within the healthcare landscape. Most notably, he has assumed important advisory positions, including Chief Medical Officer, within various cutting-edge medical device startups, critical care delivery, and healthcare optimization. Dr. Bassin has also contributed to innumerable process improvement and healthcare facility design efforts at Michigan Medicine and other health systems around the U.S. He is widely sought after as an international expert in healthcare design, emergency medicine and critical care delivery.
About This Award
The Innovative Change in Practice Management Award is given to an emergency physician who has developed an innovative process, solution, technology or product to solve a significant problem in the practice of emergency medicine.
