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Dr. William M. Coplin is associate professor of neurology and neurological surgery at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and director of neuro-trauma and the neurological intensive care unit and chief of neurology at Detroit Receiving Hospital.

After earning his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Dr. Coplin completed an internship in internal medicine, a residency in neurology, and fellowships in critical care medicine and neurosurgery - critical care at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Dr. Coplin's primary areas of research interest include neurointensive/critical care, cerebral metabolism and blood flow, concurrent cardiopulmonary disease associated with neurological catastrophes, neurotrauma, and care in cerebrovascular diseases such as ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke and subarachnoid hemorrhage. He has authored or coauthored more than 50 original articles, reviews, and book chapters and has presented at a wide variety of regional, national, and international symposia during his career. Dr. Coplin serves on the editorial board for Neurocritical Care and is also a reviewer for several other journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, Neurology, Stroke, Critical Care Medicine, andArchives of Neurology.

He is a fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine, is a founding member and serves on the board of directors for the Neurocritical Care Society, is past chair of the neurosciences section and sits on the Program Planning Committee for the Society of Critical Care Medicine, is on the executive committee and chair of the Critical Care and Emergency section of the American Academy of Neurology and sits on the executive committee of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons Joint Section on Neurotrauma and Critical Care.