Christopher Ziebell, M.D., FACEP

A member of Ascension Seton since 1998, Christopher Ziebell, M.D., FACEP, has served in a variety of leadership roles, including chief of staff for Ascension Seton Southwest, Ascension Seton Northwest and the Ascension Seton Family of Hospitals.

He is executive director of the Ascension Seton Event Medicine Institute and vice chairman of the Ascension Seton Family of Hospitals Board of Trustees. He also serves as chairman of the Quality and Patient Safety Committee. He serves as a member of the Austin-Travis County EMS Advisory Board and is a former chairman of the EMS Steering Committee of the Travis County Medical Society.

Ziebell is a graduate of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. He earned his medical degree at the University of Minnesota and his Bachelor of Arts degrees from Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota. His academic interests are the business of medicine, high-reliability healing and patient-centered care.

After graduating residency, Ziebell worked for five years in Indiana. There, he founded a rural primary care emergency medicine fellowship, an urgent care and a medical transcription company. He came to Texas in 1998 to be a shift-working emergency department physician, hoping to have more free time and enjoy life.

In spite of that goal, Ziebell found that he is happiest when contributing, so he got back into management in 2000. He was the emergency department medical director in three different hospitals, the chief of staff of two different hospitals and the chief of staff for Ascension Seton. Ziebell was involved in the founding of Emergency Service Partners, PLLC, and Hospital Physicians in Clinical Research, PLLC.

He also does woodworking, restores old cars, attends car shows and travels when he can. In a loose affiliation with CBS, he has consulted for “The Young and the Restless” and was recently invited to attend the Emmys as a guest of CBS.