Mitchel Schwindt, MD Contributing Author for MedicEd.com Courses Dr. Mitchel Schwindt is a board-certified emergency medicine physician who practices in a variety of clinical settings. He completed his residency at Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. As part of Michigan State University, Butterworth was renamed Spectrum Health, and is one of the busiest level 1 emergency and trauma centers in the United States. He served as chief resident his final year. While there he was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha, a prestigious medical honor society. He also devoted a significant amount of time working as a flight physician (helicopter) for an aeromedical company. In addition to practicing emergency medicine, he continues to work in several busy urgent care clinics, serves as the medical director for a hospital trauma program, and does a variety of consulting work related to medicine, dentistry and physician-focused internet entrepreneurial activities. He has worked as a flight physician for an aeromedical helicopter service and continues in an on-call capacity for an international medical flight company. Dr. Schwindt has served on many committees and steering groups related to health care, quality and process improvement. He serves as a volunteer physician for local sporting and martial arts events. He is a consultant and medical advisor to several dental groups and has developed protocols and policies related to medical issues in the dental practice. In his free time, he enjoys competing in triathlons, skiing, water sports, time with family, foreign travel and pursuing entrepreneurial activities.