Faculty

Christopher S. Russi, D.O.

Location

Rochester, Minnesota

Contact

russi.christopher@mayo.edu Clinical Profile

SUMMARY

Christopher S. Russi, D.O., focuses on emergency medicine. His main research interests are in digital transformation of emergency medicine, prehospital emergency care with telemedicine and remote monitoring.

Dr. Russi also served as a United States Army medical officer in a forward resuscitation surgical detachment. As an Army emergency medicine doctor, Dr. Russi provided care to wounded service members in far forward and austere environments.

Focus areas

  • Emergency medicine telemedicine. Dr. Russi studies the impact of emergency department use after emergency medicine consultation with nurse triage through phone lines.
  • Remote monitoring. Dr. Russi is developing a remote monitoring system for vital signs in the prehospital space. The remote monitoring system for telemedicine teams has digital eyes on critically ill patients being transported to emergency departments.
  • Wearable devices. Dr. Russi is partnering with Mayo Clinic engineering teams to study the use of wearables in the prehospital space. These wearables help in developing machine learning algorithms for the detection of clinical deterioration.

Significance to patient care

Telemedicine is rapidly expanding and hasn't fully reached the prehospital space. Linking a remote vital signs monitoring system to telemedicine teams may theoretically allow for real-time or near real-time collaboration with prehospital care teams. This is especially important for patients who have clinical deterioration in their conditions.

Professional highlights

  • Associate medical director, Mayo Clinic Military Medicine Program, Mayo Clinic, 2021-present.
  • U.S. Army 945th and 628th Forward Resuscitation Surgical Teams, 2018-2023.
  • Kern Health Care Delivery Scholar, Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Mayo Clinic, 2011-2012.
  • KL2 Award, National Institutes of Health, 2009.

PROFESSIONAL DETAILS

Primary Appointment

  1. Consultant, Department of Emergency Medicine

Academic Rank

  1. Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

EDUCATION

  1. Graduate School - Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program. Year-long graduate program designed to develop and create business start-up companies and commercialize ideas / technologies. Completed Courses 6150: Case Studies in Entrepreneurship - The Value Proposition and Developing a "Start-Up" 6151: Case Studies in Entrepreneurship - Key Resources and Revenue Streams 6152: Risk Assessment, Prototyping, and Commercialization Plan Capstone to the course was pitch business to the combined Mayo Clinic and Univ. of Minnesota Business School "Walleye Tank" Venture Capital Competition (Dec 1, 2023) Mayo Clinic Office of Entrepreneurship
  2. Improving financial, business and marketing acumen as a future leader in Mayo Clinic Physician Leadership Business Academy, Mayo Clinic Office of Leadership and Organization Development
  3. Certificate - Certificate of Science in Clinical & Translational Research Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
  4. Basic Science Masters Clinical and Translational Science, Programs, Mayo Graduate School, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
  5. Graduate School - Focus on core curriculum for research tenure track faculty and grant writing. College of Public Health, University of Iowa
  6. Fellow - Faculty Development Department of Emergency Medicine, Wright State University
  7. Chief Resident ACGME EM Residency Program, Regions Hospital
  8. Resident ACGME EM Residency Program, Regions Hospital
  9. Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Des Moines University
  10. BS - Biology Iowa State University
  11. Biology Drake University

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