Joseph Christopher Farmer MD

Dr. Michael Farnell is a surgeon in Rochester, Minnesota and is affiliated with Mayo Clinic. He received his medical degree from University of Alabama School of Medicine and has been in practice for 40 years. He is one of 56 doctors at Mayo Clinic who specialize in Surgery.
For more than twenty years, Dr Farmer has been an active leader and developer of efficient and safe inpatient systems of care for critically ill and injured patients. This work includes building necessary care teams, developing infrastructure for monitoring/improving quality and safety, optimizing patient flow and throughput in the hospital, developing infrastructure for fiscal monitoring and accountability of ICU care systems, and systematizing provider communications and care protocols. This work also includes scholarly investigations into these same focus areas. The goal of all of this work is to develop care systems that are not dependent on individuals and are engineered for high performance and reliability. Most of this work has occurred in academic medical institutions, but also includes tertiary and quaternary non-academic medical centers, too. Dr Farmer has also been actively involved with disaster medical planning and response systems for hospitals, regions, and countries, also for more than twenty years. This includes the emergency transport of critically ill and injured patients while providing advanced ICU care.