FACULTY AND FELLOWS
Honors
Michael Schaffer , MD After 39 incredible years with Children ’ s Colorado , the esteemed cardiologist and electrophysiologist Michael Schaffer , MD hung up his stethoscope and no longer reads EKGs at all hours of the day or night . The shoes he left are as enormous as his legacy , and his professional legacy extends to children , families , students , residents , fellows , nurses , advanced practice providers and physicians .
Dr . Schaffer is perhaps the proudest of two main areas of his career — teaching and expanding cardiac outreach care across the region . He holds the distinction of being the only provider within the section of Cardiology to have won the Department of Pediatrics ’ Career Teaching Scholars Award ( 2010 ). Nominated by his peers and selected to receive the award by a prestigious group of past awardees , Dr . Schaffer was recognized as a gifted teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to pediatric education over his career . Dr . Schaffer was also selected by pediatric residents for the Gary Way Excellence in Teaching Award ( 2012 ). Notably , he was also one of the earliest to expand cardiology ’ s outreach services to children and families in neighboring states in the 1980s . To this day , we provide clinical care and / or partner with referring cardiologists in Wyoming , Montana , New Mexico , Idaho , North and South Dakota , Kansas , Nebraska and Texas .
For these and many other reasons , we are proud to announce that Dr . Schaffer was granted the rank of professor emeritus following his departure in August 2023 . We thank him for 39 years of outstanding contributions to the hospital , university , fields of cardiology and electrophysiology , and our students in a variety of capacities . His colleagues note his considerable impact on many aspects of Children ’ s Colorado and the University of Colorado School of Medicine , and we all look forward to continued collaboration in his emeritus position .
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