
Chris Rishel MD PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University
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300 Pasteur DrStanford, CA 94305
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Summary
- Dr. Chris Rishel is an neuroanesthesiologist in Palo Alto, CA and is affiliated with Stanford Health Care. He received his medical degree from University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine and has been in practice 7 years. He also speaks multiple languages, including Spanish. He is experienced in health technology/informatics, healthcare outcomes research, and medical education. He has more than 10 publications and over 100 citings.
Education & Training
Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityFellowship, 2021 - 2022
Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityFellowship, Anesthesiology, 2019 - 2021
Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityResidency, Anesthesiology, 2016 - 2019
University of ChicagoInternship, Internal Medicine, 2015 - 2016
University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of MedicineClass of 2015
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 2016 - 2026
IL State Medical License 2015 - 2016
American Board of Anesthesiology Anesthesiology
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Association between preoperative obstructive sleep apnea diagnosis and prolonged postoperative opioid use among patients undergoing common surgical procedures.Anjali A Dixit, Akash Shanmugam, Christine Y Kim, Chris A Rishel, Eric C Sun
Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine. 2025-08-24 - 1 citationsAssociation Between Naloxone Coprescription Mandates and Postoperative Outcomes.Austin L Du, Chris A Rishel, Eric C Sun
Annals of Surgery. 2023-11-01 - 4 citationsAssociation Between Changes in Postoperative Opioid Utilization and Long-Term Health Care Spending Among Surgical Patients With Chronic Opioid Utilization.Eric C Sun, Chris A Rishel, Anupam B Jena
Anesthesia and Analgesia. 2022-03-01
Journal Articles
- Association Between Preoperative Benzodiazepine Use and Postoperative Opioid Use and Health Care CostsChris Rishel, MD, JAMA Network Open
- Archon: A unified information storage and retrieval system for lone archivists, special collections librarians and curatorsSchwartz SW, Prom CJ, Rishel CA, Fox KJ, Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 7/2007
- A unified platform for archival description and accessProm CJ, Rishel CA, Schwartz SW, Fox KJ, Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries, 6/17/2007
Books/Book Chapters
Abstracts/Posters
- Interactions between spatial and non-spatial encoding in parietal cortex during visual categorizationRishel CA, Huang G, Freedman DJ, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Washington, DC, 11/14/2011
- The influence of saccades on visual feature selectivity in parietal cortex during a visual matching taskRishel CA, Freedman DJ, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, San Diego, CA, 11/14/2010
- A comparison of prefrontal and parietal cortices during visual motion categorizationSwaminathan SK, McClellan S, Rishel CA, Freedman DJ, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Chicago, IL, 10/20/2009
Committees
- Member, Society for Neuroscience in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Education Committee 2022 - Present
Research History
- PhD StudentI studied the relationship between spatial and cognitive signals in the primate posterior parietal cortex (PPC). The results of this work were published in Neuron and featured in the Chicago Tribune. Additionally, my dissertation won best PhD thesis in Computational Neuroscience for the year.2008 - 2012
- Undergraduate ResearcherI was the founding developer on the "Archon" project, an open-source, flexible, intuitive content management system for archivists. The project was selected for the 2008 $100,000 Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration, and has resulted in the publication of several manuscripts and a book chapter.2004 - 2007
Professional Memberships
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Other Languages
- Spanish
External Links
- Personal Websitehttps://chrisrishel.com/
- WikiAnesthesiahttps://wikianesthesia.org/
- PhD Labhttps://freedmanlab.org/
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