Marquis Who’s Who has recognized Wolf Stapelfeldt for excellence in anesthesiology. The news was announced from Saint Louis, Missouri, on November 9, 2017.
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Dr. Stapelfeldt is a professor and chairman at Saint Louis University. He is best known for the SLUScore, a method that measures the harm caused by lower-than-normal blood pressure, which is common under anesthesia. In 2014 Cleveland Clinic Innovation featured his application at its Top Ten Innovations in Medicine award ceremony.
His career also spans more than 30 years. At Cleveland Clinic, he chaired the department of general anesthesiology and served as vice chairman of information systems and technologies. Before that, at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, he chaired transplantation anesthesiology and was vice chairman of education.
Liver transplant anesthesia has been a large part of his work, both with Mayo Clinic sites in Florida and Arizona and in helping start transplantation in Costa Rica. He also founded Talis Clinical, LLC, a Cleveland Clinic spinoff that makes software for doctors in high-acuity care, and served as its first chief medical officer.
In addition, he holds several patents in clinical decision support. He also writes for the Journal of Physiology, Mayo Clinic Proceedings and Anesthesia & Analgesia. Recently he joined the education board of the American Health Council.
His honors also include a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Merit Review Award and a Young Investigator Award from FAER and Roche Laboratories. At Mayo Clinic he received Resident of the Year and Edward C. Kendall awards.
Dr. Stapelfeldt earned his MD from the University of Ulm in Germany in 1983. Later he completed a physiology fellowship and an anesthesiology residency at the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education in Rochester, Minnesota. Going forward, he plans to keep building electronic tools that improve outcomes after surgery. Outside medicine, he is a licensed single-engine pilot and rescues animals.