Michelle Storkan

Michelle Storkan, MD, is an Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. She serves as Course Director for the UCSF Fresno Wilderness Medicine Medical Student Elective and Program Co-Director for the UCSF Fresno Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Program. Her clinical work and publications emphasize emergency care, wilderness medicine, and neurology.

Her research spans

• Wilderness medical practices
• Trauma pain management
• Pediatric stroke treatment
• Geriatric emergency care
• Neurovascular interventions

She has co-authored studies in journals like Wilderness & Environmental Medicine and Frontiers in Neurology, focusing on field analgesia, thrombolysis safety, and geriatric trauma. Her recent work explores trends in

• Carotid artery stenting with antiplatelet agents
• Heat-related illness protocols
• Clinical database analysis for pediatric stroke

Scientific contributions include

• Advancing wilderness medicine education and field practices
• Optimizing pain management in geriatric trauma
• Neurological interventions for acute ischemic stroke

Michelle Storkan's affiliations with UCSF's Emergency Medicine program and her dual focus on clinical practice, medical education, and cross-disciplinary research in neurology and pediatrics demonstrate her expertise in both academic and field-based emergency care settings.