Dr. William M. Coplin serves as the Neurosciences Medical Director for Centura Health in Denver, Colorado. He directs the Neurocritical Care program. Dr. Coplin previously served as an Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurological Surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He has published over 100 articles and book chapters. Dr. Coplin has performed nearly two decades of studies on physiological responses to therapeutic interventions, influencing understanding of treatments for conditions like brain injury, stroke, and biomarkers for brain injuries.

1. BIOGRAPHY
William M. Coplin, MD, FCCM serves as the Neurosciences Medical Director
for the Centura Health system, based in the Denver, CO area. This includes
direction of the Neurocritical Care program. He previously served as an
Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurological Surgery at Wayne State
University School of Medicine in Detroit. He is a graduate of the University of
Chicago, received his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston, and did his postgraduate medical training in internal medicine,
neurology, the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine and
neurosurgical critical care at the University of Washington in Seattle. Dr.
Coplin has published more than 100 journal articles, book chapters, case
reports, and abstracts. He was principal investigator of the American traumatic
brain injury craniectomy clinical trial effort and a local investigator in the NIH-
funded Wayne State University hub of the Neurological Emergencies
Treatment Trials network. He served as Chief of Neurology and Medical
Director of Neurotrauma and Critical Care at the Detroit Receiving
Hospital/Detroit Medical Center for over 12 and 14 years, respectively. He also
served as medical director for multiple Wayne State University neurocritical
care projects and is active in research related to neurotrauma, brain edema,
therapeutic hypothermia, neurocardiopulmonary injury, status epilepticus, and
multimodality monitoring.
Dr. Coplin is a member of the Board of Directors and a founding member of
the Neurocritical Care Society, a fellow of the American College of Critical
Care Medicine and of the Neurocritical Care Society, and a board-certified
neurologist and neurointensivist. He is on the editorial board of the journal
Neurocritical Care and is a past Chair of the Critical Care and Emergency

2. Section of the American Academy of Neurology and Neurosciences Section of
the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He sits on the Executive Committee of
the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological
Surgeons Joint Section on Neurotrauma and Critical Care. Dr. Coplin is
internationally recognized for his expertise in neurocritical care, lectures
widely, and has participated in numerous expert panels.
Dr. Coplin has performed nearly two decades of studies to determine
physiological responses to a variety of therapeutic interventions. These
observations have had a major influence on our understanding of the use of
mechanical ventilation and airway care in brain injury, blood pressure
reduction in acute ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage, the
response of the brain to osmotic therapies, and the role of biomarkers
following subarachnoid hemorrhage and other acute brain injuries.