Dan Schlager, MD, FACEP

As an entrepreneur, Dr. Schlager is founder, CEO and president of Zoltar Technology Inc., and sold Zoltar’s GPS-wireless technology intellectual property to Apple, Google and Blackberry. He holds over 25 U.S. and international patents and is now working on lightning protection garments using metallic fibers and nanotechnology to deflect current away from critical parts of the body.

In addition to medical school and residency, he did additional training at the National Hospital Institute of Neurology at the University of London in England as well as the Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn Treatment at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Dr. Schlager also has served as an expedition physician for the National Geographic Lindblad Expeditions in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2015, serves as camp physician for the San Francisco-based Bohemian Club, and works part-time at Sutter Health in San Francisco. Dr. Schlager is also medical director of the St. Johns Center for Clinical Research near Jacksonville, Florida, and an investigator for the Jacksonville Center for Clinical Research. Dr. Schlager joined the College of Medicine – Tucson in 2016.