Dr. Emily Brunner, MD
Family Practitioner
45 10th St W Saint Paul MN, 55102About
Dr. Emily Brunner is a family practitioner practicing in Ann Arbor, MI. Dr. Brunner specializes in comprehensive health care for people of all ages. In addition to diagnosing and treating illnesses, family practitioners also put focus on preventative care with routine checkups, tests and personalized coaching on how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Brunner possesses immense general knowledge on maintaining health and today, family practitioners provide more care for the underserved and rural populations than any other medical specialty.
Education and Training
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Bachelor of Science 2002
Board Certification
American Board of Addiction Medicine
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Helping the FMG to communicate: an educational experiment.
- Branching cases in problem-based learning.
- Editorial: Factors related to anesthetic risk.
- Modulation of GABA receptor-channel complex by alcohols and general anesthetics.
- ANAEROBIC GLYCOLYSIS OF SLICES AND HOMOGENATES OF LIVER FROM THYROXINE INJECTED RATS.
- STIMULATED ANAEROBIC FRUCTOLYSIS IN RAT BRAIN CORTEX SLICES.
- Effects of anesthesia on intermediary metabolism.
- Effects of anesthesia on intermediary metabolism.
- General anesthetic action on gamma-aminobutyric acid-activated channels.
- Anesthesia for patients with preeclampsia.
- A neurochemical hypothesis for halothane anesthesia.
- A neurochemical hypothesis for halothane anesthesia.
- A hypothetical model on the mechanism of anesthesia.
- Monitoring anesthetic care: new directions.
- Inducing anesthesia with a GABA analog, THIP.
Areas of expertise and specialization
Professional Memberships
- American Academy of Family Physicians
- Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine
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Get to know Family Practitioner, Dr. Emily Brunner, who currently serves patients in the Twin Cities, Minnesota area
Dr. Brunner is a board-certified family practitioner and addiction medicine specialist. She is focused on helping develop systems of care with low barriers to starting treatment and bringing attention to the importance of treating both internet gaming disorder and gambling disorder. Furthermore, Dr. Brunner is a Medical Consultant for Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation in Center City, Minnesota, a role she embraced in 2021. Dr. Brunner has a decade of experience in outpatient addiction medicine practice.
Dr. Brunner commenced her educational journey with a Bachelor of Science degree in Neuroscience acquired at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002. She then obtained her medical degree in 2007 from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed her family medicine residency with the same educational venue in 2012.
Subsequent to her training, Dr. Brunner received board certification in family medicine and addiction medicine through the American Board of Family medicine (ABFM). She is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, Distinguished Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (DFASAM), as well as Region VI Director of the ASAM Board of Directors. She is also the immediate past-president of the Minnesota Society of Addiction Medicine.
Dr. Brunner is a passionate advocate for stigma reduction and expansion of treatment options for patients with substance use disorders.
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