Philip F. Stahel

Philip F. Stahel is the Chief Medical Officer at The Medical Center of Aurora in Colorado, and Professor of Orthopedics and Neurosurgery at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Phil trained at the University Hospital of Zurich, University Hospital of Berne, Switzerland, and at Charité University Medical Center in Berlin, Germany, and he accomplished a research fellowship in Neuroimmunology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Phil is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Patient Safety in Surgery and the editor of several textbooks in the field of patient safety, including “Patient Safety in Surgery” (2014), “Blood, Sweat and Tears – Becoming a Better Surgeon” (2016), and “Surgical Patient Safety: A case-based approach” (2018).