Excellence in Research awarded to Parks Taylor
Stephanie Parks Taylor, MD, MS, is the 2025 honoree for Excellence in Research. She is the J. Griswold and Margery Hopkins Ruth Research Professor of Medicine and the chief of hospital medicine at the University of Michigan. Dr. Taylor leads a first-of-its kind research program improving outcomes for patients with sepsis. Her work’s key innovation has been embedding research questions into routine clinical care, using rigorous methods to develop and test interventions in pragmatic randomized controlled trials.
Her work includes using advanced modeling to understand pathways to accurate diagnosis of sepsis, understanding and mitigating health disparities in care for sepsis, and improving recovery for sepsis survivors. Her team’s innovative Sepsis Transition and Recovery program, tested in a large randomized controlled trial, is the first intervention ever shown to improve mortality and rehospitalization among sepsis survivors.
Since 2018, Dr. Taylor has continuously held National Institutes of Health funding for her work, as the primary investigator of five R-series awards from the NIH and the Agency for Heathcare Research and Quality. Her work has generated more than 100 publications in high impact journals, including JAMA, NEJM, and Annals of Internal Medicine. She is a first-generation college student and is dedicated to mentoring the next generation of physician scientists in hospital medicine.
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