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Summary

  • Don Stader, MD, FACEP is a board certified emergency and addiction medicine physician, innovator & social entrepreneur. He practices at Swedish Medical Center and Lincoln Health in Colorado. Through his consulting group Stader Opioid Consultants LLC (www.staderopioidconsultants.com), he provides consulting services for quality improvement organizations, hospitals, governmental agencies, nonprofits and other organizations looking to improve pain control, opioid stewardship and treatment of OUD.

    Don holds a medical degree with honors from Baylor College of Medicine, where he was an Albert Schweitzer Fellow and attended emergency medicine residency at Carolinas Medical Center. He is the former president of Colorado ACEP and the Emergency Medicine Resident's Association (EMRA).

    In addition to medicine, he cofounded and works as a film producer for Triage Films LLC and was the creative force behind the Emmy winning documentary 24|7|365 - The Evolution of Emergency Medicine and producer of Palliative and Dying in Your Mothers Arms, an award winning, Emmy nominated documentary on end of life care in the pediatric population.

    He is the founder and chair emeritus of The Emergency Medical Minute which provides free online emergency medical education. He lives with his wife Andi and daughters Josiphine, Audrey & Morgan in Golden, Colorado.

Education & Training

  • Baylor College of Medicine
    Baylor College of MedicineClass of 2010

Certifications & Licensure

  • OR State Medical License
    OR State Medical License 2013 - Present
  • CO State Medical License
    CO State Medical License 2014 - 2025
  • LA State Medical License
    LA State Medical License 2021 - 2022
  • KS State Medical License
    KS State Medical License 2016 - 2018
  • NC State Medical License
    NC State Medical License 2010 - 2013
  • American Board of Emergency Medicine Emergency Medicine
  • American Board of Preventive Medicine Addiction Medicine

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Press Mentions

  • Denver’s Supervised Drug Use Law Is Useless Without a Matching Law Statewide — Advocates Are Pushing Dems to Make That Happen Now
    Denver’s Supervised Drug Use Law Is Useless Without a Matching Law Statewide — Advocates Are Pushing Dems to Make That Happen NowFebruary 4th, 2019
  • Colorado Wants to Address Opioid Abuse, but Even the Advocates Say the Effort Isn’t Strong Enough
    Colorado Wants to Address Opioid Abuse, but Even the Advocates Say the Effort Isn’t Strong EnoughMay 7th, 2018
  • Colorado Doctors on Front Lines of Fight Against Opioid Addiction
    Colorado Doctors on Front Lines of Fight Against Opioid AddictionJune 18th, 2017
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