Year of Residency Completion: 2015
Year of Fellowship Completion: 2017
State: Texas
Facility/School: DHR Health
Position: Chief Quality Officer, ECMO Medical Director
Years of Experience in Critical Care: 8
Areas of Interest: ECMO, MCS, Leadership, Quality, How We Learn, Survey Design
Biography
Dr. Phillips is a former junior high teacher turned emergency physician and intensivist. He graduated medical school from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and went on to do both an emergency medicine residency at the Stanford University/Kaiser EM program and an anesthesia critical care fellowship at Stanford University. His research focuses on health professions education, which culminated in his first book, Survey Methods in Medical and Health Professions Education. In addition to his own research, he is an associate editor for the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. He the editor-in-chief and founder of EM Coach (www.emcoach.org), the first and only artificial intelligence-driven emergency medicine written board review program. He continues to work clinically in the ICU and ER and is the founding ECMO director, founding Women’s Hospital ICU medical director, and chief quality officer at DHR Health. But his most auspicious and treasured title is, “Dad.”
Speaking Engagements
Extensive international, national, and local speaking engagements including AAEM, CORD, Teaching Fellowship, invited grand rounds, and other engagements covering all critical care topics including ECMO, learning and medical education, and survey design.
View sample speaking video here. (must be an AAEM member or an AAEM Online subscriber to view.)