Michelle Adams
· Henry M. Butzel Professor of LawVerifiedUniversity of Michigan · Law School
Active 2011–2025
About
Michelle Adams is the Henry M. Butzel Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. Her research centers on race discrimination, school desegregation, affirmative action, and housing law. She has published in prominent scholarly journals such as The Yale Law Journal, California Law Review, and Texas Law Review, and her work has also appeared in popular media, including a piece in The New Yorker commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act. Adams is the author of The Containment: Detroit, The Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North, which narrates the critical desegregation struggle that ended the Brown v. Board of Education era. She has appeared as an expert commentator on the Netflix series Amend: The Fight for America and the Showtime series Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court. Before joining Michigan Law, she was the co-director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she also created the first real-time “pop up” course, The First 100 Days: The Trump Administration & The Rule of Law. Adams has served as a board member of the Innocence Project and has been recognized as Professor of the Year by Cardozo’s 2022 graduating class. Her academic background includes a BA from Brown University, a JD from City University of New York, and an LLM from Harvard University, where she was the first Charles Hamilton Houston Scholar.
Research topics
- Physical therapy
- Medicine
- Internal medicine
- Nursing
Selected publications
Gastroenterology · 2025-05-01
articleTransforming orthotopic liver transplantation: Innovative dry-lab simulation model in mice
Current Problems in Surgery · 2025-10-17
articleOpen accessHe use of mouse liver transplantation models remains crucial for answering questions regarding organ transplantation, tissue-resident immunity and tumor biology. The learning curve for this complex procedure involves use of animals without creating scientific output. We present a recipient mouse and donor liver model with realistic vessels for training in mouse liver transplantation, designed to reduce the number of animals needed during the training. A 3D-model of the liver, skeleton and vessels (vena cava, hepatic artery and portal vein) was created using computed tomography images of a real mouse and 3D-printing to simulate orthotopic liver transplantation. Microsurgical experts from multiple research groups evaluated this model for usability, procedural details, and on how well the materials mimicked the real tissue. We successfully created an artificial model featuring the mouse body, organs, and vessels needed for initial training in mouse liver transplantation. The evaluation found it to realistically mimic the confined space of the surgical site and determined that it could be used for vessel anastomoses with suturing and the cuff-technique. This simulation model enables a cost-effective approach for basic training in mouse liver transplantation that can easily be reproduced to reduce animal use in the training process.
2025-04-01
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingAbstract This chapter guides the reader on the general principles, clinical manifestations, and management of abdominal pain in hospitalized patients.
2025-04-01 · 1 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingAbstract This chapter guides the reader on the diagnosis and management of ischemic bowel disease in hospitalized patients.
Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding
2025-04-01
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingAbstract This chapter guides the reader on the general principles, clinical manifestations, and management of acute gastrointestinal bleeding in hospitalized patients.
2025-04-01
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingAbstract This chapter guides the reader on the diagnosis and management of splenomegaly in hospitalized patients.
2025-04-01
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingAbstract This chapter guides the reader on the approaches to using and interpreting liver tests for inpatient care.
2025-04-01
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingAbstract This chapter guides the reader on the general principles, clinical manifestations, and management of acute diarrhea in hospitalized patients.
The American Journal of Gastroenterology · 2024-07-25 · 2 citations
articleSenior authorCorrespondingINTRODUCTION: Providers and patients have expressed concern that care provided through telehealth results in poorer outcomes than traditional in-person care. On the contrary, we hypothesized that patients with cirrhosis engaging in video/phone-based outpatient gastroenterology/hepatology tele-visits do not differ in mortality from those receiving in-person outpatient clinic visits. METHODS: This was a retrospective, case-control study using Veterans Health Administration administrative data of veterans with a cirrhosis diagnosis. Cases were patients who died between April 2021 and July 2022 and had a cirrhosis diagnosis for ≥1 year before death. For each case, a control was randomly selected from the pool of patients alive on the date of death of the case (index date) and matched on age, average Model for End-Stage Liver Disease, and number of gastroenterology/hepatology clinic visits in the prior year. Primary exposure variable was % tele-visits (video/phone) out of total visits in the year before the index date, scaled in 10% increments. Conditional logistic regression was used to assess the association between mortality and % tele-visits. A secondary analysis matched on electronic Child-Turcotte-Pugh score rather than Model for End-Stage Liver Disease. RESULTS: Two thousand nine hundred thirty-three cases were identified and matched with 2,933 controls. After adjusting for covariates, tele-visit-based outpatient care was associated with a small reduction in mortality (odds ratio TH = 0.95, 95% confidence interval = 0.94-0.97). Matching on electronic Child-Turcotte-Pugh score did not change the results. DISCUSSION: Our findings suggest that outpatient cirrhosis care by tele-visit is associated with outcomes no worse than traditional in-person visits. This should reassure providers who hesitate to provide virtual care to patients with cirrhosis due to concerns for poorer outcomes.
Journal of Clinical Oncology · 2024-06-01
articlee22519 Background: Breast cancer (BC) continues to pose a significant public health challenge, with its incidence and disproportionate impact on underserved populations in the United States. The relationship between obesity and clinicopathological characteristics at presentation remains a critical area of investigation. Safety-net hospitals catering to diverse, underserved, and often marginalized communities provide a unique setting to explore these associations, shedding light on potential disparities and informing targeted interventions. This study seeks to address a critical gap in knowledge on obesity and BC characteristics in underserved populations in the United States. Methods: In this retrospective study, 927 BC patients were included. Analysis was conducted to assess the association between body mass index (BMI), age of diagnosis, tumor clinicopathologic characteristics, and molecular types. The analysis was stratified by menopausal status at diagnosis. Results: The average age at diagnosis was 57.52 ± 12.40 years; 60.2% were postmenopausal women. Patients were categorized based on BMI into underweight/normal, overweight, and obese categories. One-way ANOVA analysis revealed no significant difference in mean age at presentation between BMI groups (p = 0.08). A significant association was found between BMI and menopausal status (p < 0.05). Disease stage at presentation was significantly associated with BMI (p < 0.05). Further investigation into BMI categories and tumor characteristics revealed a significant correlation in postmenopausal women, with obesity linked to tumor size and lymph node status (p < 0.05). No significant associations were observed between HER-2 status, ER/PR status, and obesity in either premenopausal or postmenopausal groups. In the subgroup analysis focusing on ethnic groups, African American patients (with an average BMI of 32.8 ± 8.2 kg/m 2 ) demonstrated a higher prevalence of obesity at BC diagnosis in both pre and post-menopausal females compared to other ethnic groups (p < 0.05). Conclusions: Obesity was associated with the disease stage and menopause status at diagnosis. In postmenopausal patients, obesity was associated with tumor size and lymph node disease status. Additionally, ethnic variations were evident, with African American patients displaying a higher prevalence of obesity. We need further investigations to tailor interventions addressing diverse demographic factors in BC management.
Frequent coauthors
- 132 shared
Sameer D. Saini
Galgotias University
- 62 shared
Joel H. Rubenstein
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
- 47 shared
John I. Allen
- 42 shared
Hyungjin Myra Kim
United States Department of Veterans Affairs
- 31 shared
Lewei Lin
VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System
- 28 shared
Ponni V. Perumalswami
Veterans Health Administration
- 26 shared
Shirley Cohen‐Mekelburg
- 21 shared
Akbar K. Waljee
Education
- 2015
Gastroenterology Fellow, Division of Gastroenterology
University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers
- 2012
Internal Medicine Resident, Department of Internal Medicine Residency Program
University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers
- 2009
MD
University of Maryland School of Medicine
- 1998
BA
Carleton College
Awards & honors
- 2024 L. Hart Wright Teaching Award
- Professor of the Year (2022)
- Stone Book Award for The Containment: Detroit, The Supreme C…
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