Healthcare Performance Under Stress:
What If Failure Is Not An Option?

Allan Hamilton started his working life as janitor. He went on to become a Harvard-trained brain surgeon. He is a decorated Army veteran who served in Operation Desert Storm. He holds four professorships at the University of Arizona in Neurosurgery, Radiation Oncology, Psychology, and Electrical & Computer Engineering He has been selected by his peers as “One of America’s Best Doctors” for more than twenty-three consecutive years. Dr. Hamilton has authored five non-fiction works that have won numerous literary awards and have translated into several languages. He is a world renown horse whisperer and trainer.

Dr. Hamilton heads up a 35,000 square-foot facility to carry out simulation training for the Arizona Health Sciences Center. He has been selected as “One of the Leading Intellects of the Twenty-First Century” and been called “the prototype of the modern Renaissance man.” He has been recognized with the Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. In 2019, he was awarded the highest academic accolade given by the state of Arizona and was bestowed the title of Regents Professor, given to less than 1% of all eligible faculty members in the state’s university system.

100As an undergraduate, Allan studied creative writing under Rod Serling, the creator of The Twilight Zone. Dr. Hamilton has worked for over 17 years as the senior medical script consultant for the hit TV medical drama, Grey’s Anatomy. He is currently at work on his sixth book that will focus on the human brain and