Steven James Korzeniewski (ey8944)
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Emergency Medicine
313-577-1216
Integrative Biosciences Center (rm# 1116)
6135 Woodward
Detroit, Michigan 48202
Dr. Korzeniewski’s research focuses broadly on the antecedents, correlates and consequences of early onset hypertension in socially vulnerable populations-- particularly during or before pregnancy. With a diverse multidisciplinary research background, his specific training and expertise are in epidemiology, biostatistics and data visualization.
His graduate studies were supported by a pre-doctoral fellowship from then the Nation’s only NICHD sponsored T-32 training program in perinatal epidemiology (T32 HD046477-01A1), and he was competitively selected for the NICHD/Canadian Institute for Health Research Summer Institute, before receiving additional post-doctoral training under the Pediatric Research LRP program (L40HD077654R2). Dr. Korzeniewski joined the faculty of Wayne State’s obstetrics department in 2011, where for six years he conducted research as an Associate Investigator in the NICHD Intramural Research Program, then located in Detroit (NIH contract no. HHSN275201300006C). Upon promotion to Associate Professor in 2017, Dr. Korzeniewski shifted focus from maternal-fetal medicine to reproductive endocrinology and infertility, which prompted related research interests outside of pregnancy in early onset hypertension. In 2019 he moved to Wayne State's Integrative Biosciences Center (and later Emergency Medicine) to pursue those interests, partly by developing the technical architecture for the PHOENIX Virtual Data Warehouse and Visualization platform in Google Cloud (phoenix.wayne.edu; IRB-22-02-4397).
Dr. Korzeniewski is currently a project principal investigator and the biostatistics core director for Wayne State’s NIMHD-supported ACHIEVE GreatER Center focused on improving cardiometabolic health in vulnerable populations (P50MD017351). He is also a co-investigator in the CURES Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Health Stressors (P30 ES036084), and he receives additional support from the EPA (co-I; RD-84045901-0) and DOE (co-I; DE-EE0010413), in addition to other local fundeding. Dr. Korzeniewski continues to pursue his passion for improving pregnancy outcomes too, for example as an active member of the Global Pregnancy Collaboration (CoLab) and by working with trainees and investigators at the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development.
PhD (Epidemiology), MS (Epidemiology), MA (Health Communication)
