Global Coordinator, Metropolitan EMS Medical Directors Alliance
University of Texas Health Sciences, Houston, Texas, USA
Dallas, Texas
Dr Paul Pepe serves as the Emergency Medical Services/Public Safety Medical Director for Dallas County (TX, USA) and also as Medical Director for Research/Education/Special Operations for numerous south Florida public safety agencies and S.W.A.T. teams. He is also coordinates the metropolitan EMS medical directors ("Eagles") global alliance, its day-to-day networking, and the renowned Eagles EMS State-of-the-Science conferences.
Before retiring in 2019 from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School (Dallas) and affiliated Parkland Trauma Center, he was the academic/administrative chair for two medical school-affiliated Emergency Medicine (EM) programs and served as a tenured Professor of Internal Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, EM, Public Health and Riggs Family Chair in EM. Currently a Professor of Management, Policy and Community Health at the University of Texas Public Health School (Houston), he remains a prolific, award-winning researcher whose 4-decade long track record in critical care encompasses >500 peer-reviewed papers and many landmark publications including the “Chain of Survival”, “Auto-PEEP”, “permissive hypotension” in trauma, re-appraisal of mouth-to-mouth breathing, the Chicago airport public-use AED study, and now markedly-improved clinical outcomes with "Neuroprotective (heads-up-bundle) CPR”. He continues to receive best abstract/paper recognitions from major professional societies including five consecutive Star Research Achievement Awards from SCCM over the last 4 years (in multiple categories).
Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, EM and EMS, he has forged multi-specialty approaches to science engendering many international honors such as the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Silver-Anniversary Award for Research Excellence and designations as Master of both the American College of Critical Care Medicine and American College of Physicians (MCCM, MACP). When receiving a lifetime achievement award in 2005 from the American College of Emergency Physicians (presented by the U.S. Surgeon General in Washington, D.C.), Dr. Pepe was already being cited as the “most accomplished emergency medical services physician of our generation.”
Saturday, January 21, 2023
4:00 PM – 4:15 PM PT
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