About Us
Our Mission
- Eliminate avoidable harm to patients.
- Foster an atmosphere in which quality improvement is valued as an essential component of the academic enterprise.
- Develop tools and provide faculty and staff with the skills necessary to deliver high quality and safe care to patients.
- Identify and correct system failures and latent errors that contribute to patient harm.
- Train the next generation of healthcare providers to develop safety systems of care.
- Empower and engage faculty and staff in building a just culture in order to improve care to patients.
Welcome to the Department of Emergency Medicine.
The Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine is dedicated to delivering superlative patient care, providing an environment where training and education thrive and innovation and discovery are fostered.
The Department of Emergency Medicine is based at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora Colorado. The campus is a state of the art medical campus home to the University of Colorado Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Pharmacy, the Colorado School of Public Health; as well as the University of Colorado Hospital and Children's Hospital Colorado both of which serve as major training sites for the Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine.
I am extremely proud to Chair this department not because of the amazing campus or remarkable facilities but because of the dedicated faculty who make up this department. The Emergency Medicine faculty are unequivocally dedicated to bettering the lives or our patients, training the next generation of leaders in emergency medicine and creating new knowledge to improve care and expand our learners horizons.
Richard D. Zane, MD
George B. Boedecker, Jr. and Boedecker Foundation Endowed Chair of Emergency Medicine
Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Colorado School of Medicine / Department of Emergency Medicine
Executive Director, Emergency Services
University of Colorado Health
Leadership
George B. Boedecker, Jr. and Boedecker Foundation Endowed Chair of Emergency Medicine; Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine; University of Colorado School of Medicine / Department of Emergency Medicine; Executive Director, Emergency Services; University of Colorado Health
Professor and Vice Chair of Operations
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Vice Chair for Strategy and Growth; Director, CU Anschutz Center for COMBAT Research; Director, TRIAD Research Lab Colorado; Professor of Emergency Medicine, Toxicology, and Pharmacology; University of Colorado School of Medicine
Vice Chair and Professor of Emergency Medicine
Director of Emergency Ultrasound
Denver Health Medical Center
Vice Chair of Finance and Administration
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Changing the World
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Anesthesiology; Vice Chair for Research, Department of Emergency Medicine; Medical Director of Clinical Research, Department of Anesthesiology; University of Colorado School of Medicine
Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Colorado School of Medicine