About

Michael Hopkins is a professor and chair of Music Education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He teaches courses in string techniques, orchestra methods, research methods, and the psychology of music. He has been a guest conductor at over 100 orchestra festivals and clinics throughout the United States, and has given over 60 presentations at national, international, and state music education conferences on various topics in string education and music technology. Hopkins is also an active composer and arranger, with over 70 published works for orchestra published by Alfred Music Publishing, Grand Mesa Music, Kendor Music Publishing, Inc., and J.W. Pepper’s MyScore. His compositions have been commissioned by many schools and ensembles across the U.S. He authored The Art of String Teaching, a comprehensive string pedagogy resource for pre-service teachers, professional orchestra conductors, and string educators, which includes a YouTube channel with over 100 videos demonstrating string techniques. His research articles have appeared in numerous respected journals including the Journal of Research in Music Education, International Journal of Music Education, and Music Education Research. Hopkins serves as the director of the Michigan String Educators Workshop and the U-M Bass Bash Festival, and is involved with the American String Teachers Association, serving on the Michigan Chapter board and participating in national committees.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Medicine
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Biology
• Aeronautics
• Simulation
• Surgery
• Engineering
• Dermatology
• Geography
• Environmental planning
• Public relations
• Nursing
• Environmental health
• Business
• Aerospace engineering

Selected publications

• Composing in Orchestra

  Oxford University Press eBooks · 2024-01-23

  book-chapter1st authorCorresponding

  Abstract This chapter will examine the role of composition in string classes and orchestra and provide examples of projects for directors who teach at different levels. Opening with a brief overview of the orchestra teaching profession and surveys of attitudes toward composition, the chapter goes on to explore the benefits and challenges within the teaching and learning of composition before providing examples of composition projects for students at different levels of compositional development. Teachers will find that composing in orchestra can a) enhance student musicianship, including performance skills, b) create opportunities for students to collaborate, negotiate, and compromise, c) increase student motivation as a direct result of the act of creating a new culturally relevant piece of music, and d) change the role of the teacher from ensemble director to facilitator, which provides new opportunities to learn how much students understand about the structure of music. Teachers will learn how to address challenges such as off-task talking, social loafing, unequal interaction, and negative interactions. Throughout the chapter, teachers will provide answers to these common questions: What is the role of the teacher in a composing project? How do I plan and implement an effective composing project? How much time will this take? Will it impact our performance preparation?

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• CASE SERIES OF OUTCOMES IN LARYNGEAL PAPILLOMATOSIS SURGERY USING COBLATION WITH THE MINI LARYNGEAL WAND

  2023

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Medicine
  • Surgery
  • Dermatology
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• Spaceflight validation of technology for point-of-care monitoring of peripheral blood WBC and differential in astronauts during space missions

  Life Sciences in Space Research · 2021 · 17 citations

  • Computer Science
  • Aeronautics
  • Simulation

  During long duration orbital space missions, astronauts experience immune system dysregulation, the persistent reactivation of latent herpesviruses, and some degree of clinical incidence. During planned NASA 'Artemis' deep space missions the stressors that cause this phenomenon will increase, while clinical care capability will likely be reduced. There is currently minimal clinical laboratory capability aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The ability to monitor the white blood cell count (WBC) and differential during spaceflight has been an unmet NASA medical requirement, primarily due to a lack of capable hardware. We performed ground and flight validation of a device designed to monitor WBC and differential within minutes from a fingerstick blood sample. This device is miniaturized, robust, and generally compatible with microgravity operations. Ground testing for spaceflight consisted of vibration tolerance, power/battery and interface requirements, electromagnetic interference (EMI), and basic evaluation of sample preparation and operations in the context of spaceflight constraints. The in-flight validation performed aboard the ISS by two astronauts included assessment of three levels of control solution (blood) samples as well as a real time analysis of a fingerstick blood sample by one of the crewmembers. Flight and ground testing of the same lot of control solutions yielded similar total WBC values. There was some select discrepancy between flight and ground data for the differential analysis. However, the data suggest that this issue is due to compromise of the control solutions as a result of storage length before flight operations, and not due to a microgravity-associated issue with instrument performance. This evaluation also yielded lessons learned regarding crewmember training for technique-sensitive small-volume biosample collection and handling in microgravity. The fingerstick analysis was successful and was the first real-time hematology assessment performed during spaceflight. This device may provide an in-mission monitoring capability for astronauts thereby assisting Flight Surgeons and the crew medical officer during both orbital and deep space missions.

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• Polymorphism in the IL18 Gene and Epithelial Ovarian Cancer in Non-Hispanic White Women

  Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) · 2020-11-01 · 3 citations

  articleOpen access

  Over 22,000 cases of ovarian cancer were diagnosed in 2007 in the United States but only a fraction of them can be attributed to mutations in highly penetrant genes such as BRCA1. To determine whether low penetrance genetic variants contribute to ovarian cancer risk, we genotyped 1,536 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in several candidate gene pathways in 848 epithelial ovarian cancer cases and 798 controls in the North Carolina Ovarian Cancer Study (NCO) using a customized Illumina array. The inflammation gene interleukin-18 (IL18) showed the strongest evidence for association with epithelial ovarian cancer in a gene-by-gene analysis (p=0.002) with a <25% chance of being a false positive finding (q-value=0.240). Using a multivariate model search algorithm over eleven IL18 tagging SNPs, we found the association was best modeled by rs1834481. Further, this SNP uniquely tagged a significantly associated IL18 haplotype and there was an increased risk of epithelial ovarian cancer per rs1834481 allele (OR=1.24, 95% CI: 1.06, 1.45). In a replication stage, twelve independent studies from the Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC) genotyped rs1834481 in an additional 5,877 cases and 7,791 controls. The fixed effects estimate per rs1834481 allele was null (OR=0.99, 95% CI: 0.94, 1.05) when data from the twelve OCAC studies were combined. The effect estimate remained unchanged with the addition of the initial NCO data. This analysis demonstrates the importance of consortia, like the OCAC, in either confirming or refuting the validity of putative findings in studies with smaller sample sizes.

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• Community-Based Strategies for Health Priority Setting and Action Planning

  American journal of health studies · 2020 · 1 citations

  • Political Science
  • Sociology
  • Computer Science

  The Morehouse School of Medicine Prevention Research Center implemented initiatives in direct response to priorities identified through a community-based participatory research driven health needs and assets assessment. Led by a community-majority coalition board, the assessment coupled secondary data with primary survey data collected by and from 607 Atlanta community residents. This paper will detail the assessment process, which included identification of community residents’ health priorities and policies, systems, or environmental issues that impact community health. We will also describe the process of disseminating the assessment results through community conversations to increase community residents’ awareness of these priorities to effect change.

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• To bed or not to bed: the sleep question?

  Postgraduate Medical Journal · 2019-12-24 · 8 citations

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  BACKGROUND: Sleep deprivation and fatigue from long-shift work impacts doctors' personal safety, inhibits cognitive performance and risks clinical error. The aim of this study was to assess the sleep quality of surgical trainees participating in European Working Time Directive-compliant training rotations within a UK deanery. METHODS: A trainee cohort numbering 38 (21 core, 17 higher surgical trainees, 29 men and 9 women, median age 31 (25-44 years)) completed a sleep diary over 30 days using the Sleep Time (Azumio) smartphone application and triangulated with on-call rosters to identify shift patterns. The primary outcome measure was sleep quality related to rostered clinical duties. RESULTS: Consecutive 1152 individual sleep episodes were recorded. The median time asleep (hours:min) was 6:29 (5:27-7:19); the median sleep efficiency was 86% (80%-93%); the median light sleep (hours:min) was 2:50 (1:50-3:49); and the median rapid eye movement (REM) sleep (hours:min) was 3:20 (2:37-4:07). Significant adverse sleep profiles were observed in trainees undertaking emergency on-call duty when compared with elective (non-on-call) duty; the median time asleep (hours:min) 5:49 vs 6:43 (p<0.001); the median sleep efficiency was 85% vs 87% (p<0.001); the median light sleep (hours:min) was 2:16 vs 2:58 (p<0.001); and REM sleep (hours:min) was 2:57 vs 3:27 (p<0.001). Recovery of sleep duration, efficiency and quality necessitated five full days of time. CONCLUSION: Surgical emergency on-call duty adversely influences sleep quality. Proper consideration of fail-safe rota design, prioritising sleep hygiene, recovery and well-being, allied to robust patient safety and quality of care should be made a priority.

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• Time to Next Available Appointment as an Access to Care Metric

  The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety · 2019-08-29 · 2 citations

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• Panel Size, Clinician Time in Clinic, and Access to Appointments

  The Annals of Family Medicine · 2018-11-01 · 22 citations

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  Large panel sizes are often held responsible for worse access to appointments in primary care. We evaluated the relationship between appointment backlog, panel size, and primary care clinician time in clinic, using Spearman correlation and multiple regression in a retrospective analysis. We found no independent association between panel size and days until third next available appointment, but larger panel size adjusted for clinician time in clinic was associated with worse access. Less clinician time in clinic was independently associated with longer backlogs for appointments. Our findings suggest that patients of part-time clinicians may be less likely to obtain timely appointments than patients of fulltime clinicians, regardless of panel size.

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• Evaluation of extended antibiotic prophylaxis in patients undergoing indicated non‐cosmetic panniculectomy at the time of gynecologic surgery

  Journal of Surgical Oncology · 2018-01-08 · 3 citations

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  BACKGROUND: Panniculectomy at time of gynecologic surgery is used to improve visualization and prevent major complications in morbidly obese patients. We examine the role of extended antibiotic prophylaxis in prevention of surgical site infections (SSI), specifically based on patient risk factors (hypertension, diabetes, smoking). METHODS: A prospective cohort study of all women who underwent panniculectomy at the time of gynecologic surgery from September 2014 to March 2016 at a university-affiliated hospital. The EAP cohort received standard antibiotics (cefazolin, 2 g) and continued oral antibiotic (doxycycline) for 10 days afterwards. Patients in this cohort were compared to historical controls from the same institution from 1990 to 2014. Specific attention was paid to the reduction of SSIs in patients with hypertension, diabetes, and a history of smoking. RESULTS: ). The EAP cohort experienced fewer surgical-site infections overall, however these results were not significantly decreased from the historical controls, (13/56 [23.2%] vs 94/300 [31.3%]; P = 0.469). CONCLUSION: Though initially promising, extended antibiotic prophylaxis did not reduce surgical site infections in the obese women after indicated non-cosmetic panniculectomy at the time of gynecologic surgery.

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• Criteria-Based Discharge: Streamlining ENT patient Discharge in a large teaching hospital

  2018-06-27

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  Background:Informed consent is an essential aspect in medical and surgical practice. Current guidelines from the UK General Medical Council and the Royal College of Surgeons of England do not give advice with regards to consent of use of grafts or animal products in surgery. This study aimed to explore ENT surgeonsu2019 attitude and approach towards commonly used animal and human derived materials in their own practice.Material and Methods:An online hosted survey was designed to cover different aspects related to use of A/H-dPs in ENT surgery. ENT UK helped in distributing the survey via its membersu2019 mailing list.Results:A link to the survey was sent via ENT UK mailing list to 739 consultants. 178 of those who the email was sent to clicked on the link that directed them to the survey website and 100 consultants completed the survey. Around 90% of respondents donu2019t discuss with their patients the need to use A/H-dPs in the consent process. Responses to other questions are presented in the tables below.Discussion:Even though there is significant exposure to A/H-dPs in ENT specialty, these products are not commonly discussed with surgical candidates. When discussed, documented religion was the main factor for that.Even in groups with strong representation such as Jehovah Witnesses, only blood products are discussed. Even though there are other A/H-dPs that a Jehovah Witness might decline to use if discussed with him/her.There is need to interventions in order to increase awareness among ENT surgeons of the significance of A/H-dPs to certain groups of patients.Conclusion:This study highlights the issues of awareness, counseling and consent of the use of A/H-dPs in ENT surgery. It showed that a significant percentage of ENT surgeons are not aware of the origin of some of the commonly used A/H-dPs in ENT and that there is tendency to avoid discussing the need for such products with patients. More awareness is necessary both in term of ingredients of A/ H-dPs and in term of need to discuss such ingredients with patients as part of obtaining consent.

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Frequent coauthors

• Eric L. Jenison

  62 shared

• Karen M. Gil

  35 shared

• Vivian E. von Gruenigen

  Northeast Ohio Medical University

  33 shared

• Karl M. Nelson

  30 shared

• Christopher Rooney

  Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

  27 shared

• Douglas Brown

  25 shared

• James A. Roberts

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  25 shared

• Thomas E. Elkins

  25 shared