Col. Philip Lisagor, MD, FACS, US Army (Ret)
Philip Lisagor is a cardiothoracic surgeon and 20-year veteran of the armed forces. He joined the U.S. Army Reserves as a Staff Surgeon, serving in numerous missions as surgeon and Commander at Army field hospitals all over the world including the Green Zone hospital in Iraq. His areas of specialty include third world trauma centers, the ethics of triage, and applications of total quality management to combat hospital units.

Philip has served as Assistant Dean and Professor of Surgery at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, and Surgeon-in-Chief at the Veterans Hospital in Reno; and has acted as Clinical Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences since 1996.

In addition to being an active member in the Northern California Chapter, American College of Surgeons , Philip has been an Editorial reviewer for the Journal of Trauma, and acted as an American Board of Surgery Associate Oral Examiner, San Francisco, 2006. He has received dozens of Army achievement medals and commendations, including the Bronze Star and the Iraq Theatre Ribbon, and was also given the Distinguished Service Award from the University of Chicago Medical School Alumni Association in 2007.

Philip received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois, and his MD from University of Chicago. He was a USPHS Fellow in Chemistry at University of Chicago, and received Executive training as an Ally Fellow of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He has been certified by the American Board of Surgery since 1983, and by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery since 1995. He is licensed in both California and Nevada.