Dr. Don Stader, MD, FACEP, FASAM

Don Stader, MD, FACEP, FASAM is an emergency physician, opioid expert, film producer and innovator. He works at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, CO, where he serves as the section chair of emergency medicine and associate ED medical director. Stader holds a medical degree with honors from Baylor College of Medicine and attended emergency medicine residency at Carolinas Medical Center. 
He is the Past President of the Colorado chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (COACEP) and former President of the Emergency Medicine Resident’s Association (EMRA). He is also founder and past chair of Colorado ACEP’s Opioid Task Force, Editor-in-Chief of COACEP’s 2017 Opioid Prescribing and Treatment Guidelines and the leader of CO’s CURE, an effort to create multidisciplinary opioid prescribing and treatment guidelines for the state of Colorado. Stader is the Senior Pain Management and Opioid Policy Physician Adviser for the Colorado Hospital Association and serves on multiple national and local committees addressing the opioid epidemic in Colorado and across the nation. He is the founder and chair emeritus of the nonprofit, The Emergency Medical Minute, which provides free online emergency medical education via podcasts and video.

Rachael Duncan, PharmD BCPS BCCCP

Rachael is a senior consultant for Stader Opioid Consultants based in Colorado. She has spent the past six years focused on policy, advocacy, and educational work surrounding opioid stewardship and treatment at both the state and national level. She practices as an emergency medicine and critical care clinical pharmacist at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colorado. In addition, she is the 340B drug program supervisor for Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center in Salida, Colorado. Rachael graduated with her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Ohio Northern University in 2011, then completed a PGY1 and PGY2 pharmacy critical care residency at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina.