Stephen J. Wolf, MD

Dr. Stephen J. Wolf, MD serves as Chair of Emergency Medicine at Denver Health Medical Center and Professor and Vice Chair for Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from the University of Virginia in 1998 and completed his residency in emergency medicine at Denver Health in 2002. In the past, he has worked in the Denver Health and University of Colorado School of Medicine system as Residency Program Director, Departmental Director of Education, and an Assistant then Associate Dean within the University of Colorado School of Medicine. From 2014-18, Dr. Wolf served as Vice Chair for Academic Affairs at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, before returning to Colorado to take his current position. Nationally, Dr. Wolf is past-President for the Colorado Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), past-Director for the Academy of Scholarship for the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Program Directors (CORD-EM), and past-Chair for the ACEP Clinical Policies Committee, helping to define the standards of care for emergency medicine. Currently, he co-directs the SAEM/AACEM's Emerging Leader Development Program (eLEAD). To date in his career, Dr. Wolf has started multiple faculty coaching programs and leadership curriculums, all geared at advancing emergency medicine and our faculty. His areas of scholarship and research include leadership, mentorship, coaching and career development, medical education, clinical guidelines and thromboembolic disease. He has authored or co-authored over 50 scholarly publications, 60 national presentations, and 20 book chapters.