Leonardo Aliaga, MD

Leonardo Aliaga, MD, is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. He graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and began neurosurgery residency at the University of California Los Angeles. During that time, he discovered emergency medicine and switched specialties after four years of neurosurgery training. He completed his emergency medicine training at the University of California Davis and served as chief resident. Dr. Aliaga completed a medical education research fellowship at Stanford and is pursuing a Master of Health Professions Education degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Aliaga's education research interests include understanding how we learn from failure and how we can use errors to develop adaptive expertise. He has spoken both nationally and internationally on the topics of learning from failure and developing adaptive expertise.