Jeffrey Kline, M.D., has joined the Wayne State University School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine as professor and associate chair of Research.

He comes to WSU from the Indiana University School of Medicine, where he served as a professor and vice chair of Research of Emergency Medicine, and professor of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, since 2012. He also was a professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

Dr. Kline received his bachelor’s degree from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1986, and his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia in 1990, followed by an Emergency Medicine residency and research fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., where he was named chief resident.

A fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, he is a member of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and the International Society for Thrombosis and Haemostasis.

The editor-in-chief of Academic Emergency Medicine, Dr. Kline has secured numerous research grants and he holds many medical patents.

His diagnostic research interests focus on the diagnosis and treatment of venous thromboembolism in the emergency care setting and mentoring physician-scientists in emergency care.