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University of Michigan Health
Coverage of University of Michigan Health in the Nexus archive.
- Michigan hospital pays $410K to settle lawsuit by physician assistant fired over transgender policy
A Michigan hospital settled a $410,000 lawsuit with a physician assistant who was fired over a transgender policy. According to the First Liberty Institute, the hospital made no effort to accommodate her beliefs. She filed the lawsuit in October 2022.
- I implanted Paradromics' first long-term brain chip in a patient. I began my career as an electrical engineer.
Dr. Matthew Willsey, a neurosurgeon at the University of Michigan Health, performed Paradromics' first long-term brain chip implant. He transitioned from electrical engineering to neurosurgery after witnessing brain-computer interface (BCI) technology in action, aiming to develop fully implantable systems for conditions like ALS.