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Christopher Colwell
MD
Dr. Colwell is the Chief of Emergency Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, San Francisco's only Level I Trauma Center and is an endowed Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UCSF School of Medicine.
He completed his undergraduate work at the University of Michigan and went to medical school at Dartmouth Medical School, graduating in 1992. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the Denver Affiliated Residency in Emergency Medicine (Denver General) in 1996 and worked at St. Joeseph Mercy Hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan (associated with the University of Michigan) from 1996 to 1998 before accepting as job as the Associate Medical Director of EMS at Denver General (now Denver Health) in 1998.
Dr. Colwell became the Medical Director of the Denver Paramedic Division, Denver Fire Department, and Denver 911 System in 2000 and was in the role for 10 years before taking over the role of Director of Service (Chief) of Emergency Medicine at Denver Health in 2009. He was the physician at the scene of the Columbine High School shootings in 1999 and treated victims of the Aurora theater shooting in 2012 and the UPS shooting in San Francisco in 2017.
His academic interests, including publications and national speaking roles, have focused on trauma and EMS issues, in addition to disaster planning and MCI management.