Elizabeth M. Viglianti, MD, MPH, MSc, is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan and a staff physician at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. She is a physician–scientist whose work focuses on understanding the development, trajectories, and outcomes of persistent critical illness, with the goal of improving prognostication, decision-making, and long-term outcomes for critically ill patients and their families.
Dr. Viglianti earned her BA from the University of California, Berkeley, followed by her MD from Duke University School of Medicine and an MPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed her Internal Medicine residency and Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship at the University of Michigan, where she also obtained an MSc in clinical research. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine.
Her research program integrates clinical epidemiology, health services research, and mixed methods approaches to identify mechanisms and modifiable factors that contribute to prolonged ICU stays and recovery after critical illness. She currently serves as Principal Investigator on a VA-funded study focused on improving care for Veterans with persistent critical illness and previously led an NIH K23 award examining risk stratification in prolonged ICU patients. She also serves as a multi-PI on a federally funded project addressing institutional sexual harassment in medicine and contributes to large multicenter consortia in acute respiratory failure and sepsis.
Dr. Viglianti has received national recognition for her work, including the American Society for Clinical Investigation Young Physician-Scientist Award, and the American Thoracic Society Critical Care Early Career Achievement Award. She has also received the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Jerome W. Conn Award for excellence in research and the Theodore J. Standiford Early Career Endowed Award.
Her current research interests include improving communication and goal-concordant care in the ICU, identifying biologic and health system drivers of persistent critical illness, and developing interventions to enhance clinician well-being and workplace safety in healthcare settings.