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Dr. Emil Engels serves as the Medical Director and Chief of Anesthesiology of DCHUX. Dr. Engels grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and attended medical school at Yale. Upon graduation, he completed an anesthesiology residency in the Harvard Medical School system at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He then went on to complete a cardiac anesthesia fellowship. He’s had a distinguished career practicing anesthesia in the Inova system and has held academic appointments at both VCU and UVA.

Dr. Engels also earned his MBA and has served in numerous leadership roles on the business side of healthcare. He was the market president of the northeast for Mednax, with direct oversight of 800 anesthesia providers. He was also the CEO of a large orthopedic practice with close to 70 surgeons. In this role, he helped manage two surgery centers. Dr. Engels is married with three grown sons. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, travel, golf and boating.