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Professor of Management, Policy and Community Health
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Dallas, Texas, United States
Dr Paul Pepe, Professor of Management, Policy and Community Health, University of Texas Health Sciences Center (Houston), is also Emergency Medical Services (EMS)/Public Safety Medical Director for Dallas County (TX,USA) and jurisdictional Medical Director for Research/Education/Special Operations for numerous south Florida EMS/public safety and S.W.A.T agencies. As global coordinator for the metropolitan EMS medical directors alliance (aka, "Eagles"), Dr. Pepe coordinates the alliance's day-to-day networking as well as its highly-respected Gathering of Eagles/EMS State of the Science conferences and the "Eagles" weekly global ZOOM meetings with governmental and professional society leaders.
Before retiring from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and affiliated Emergency-Trauma Center at Parkland Hospital in 2019, he previously served as the academic/administrative chair for two medical school-affiliated EM residency programs and was appointed a tenured Professor of Internal Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, EM and Public Health, as well as Riggs Family Chair in EM.
Dr. Pepe remains a prolific, award-winning researcher whose 4-decade long track in critical care and EM includes >500 peer-reviewed papers and a broad list of landmark publications that introduced concepts and paradigm changes in medical practice worldwide including the “Chain of Survival”, “Auto-PEEP”, "Sepsis Syndrome", “permissive hypotension” (in trauma), the initial re-appraisal of rescue breathing during CPR, the Chicago airport public-use AED study, the first clinical translation of “heads-up CPR”, and the concept of using thromboelastography with platelet mapping to improve outcomes for COVID-19 patients. Accordingly, among many others, he received the Excellence in Research award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) during its Silver Anniversary meeting in 2014.
An SAEM member since its inception, he served as an inaugural decision editor for Academic Emergency Medicine and was a perennial contributor of scientific advances at annual meetings during SAEM's early years, both in terms of cutting-edge didactics and innovative research presentations that included best paper honors.
Personally presenting >2-dozen research papers over the last 2-years at annual scientific meetings, he continues to receive best abstract and paper recognitions from major professional societies including 4 back-to-back (2020, 2021 and 2022) annual "Star Research Achievement" awards from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) as well as the 2021 and 2022 SCCM Emeregency Medicine Section’s best paper and scholarship award.
In fall 2020, he was named the national Medical Director of the Year by the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (and affiliated national organizations) for his early breakthrough contributions during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic and for on-going initiatives now credited with saving lives and advancing the science surrounding SARS-CoV2.
Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, EM and EMS, he has forged multi-specialty approaches to research engendering international honors including early designation as "Master" from the American College of Critical Care Medicine and American College of Physicians (MCCM, MACP). When receiving a lifetime achievement award from the American College of Emergency Physicians, presented in 2005 in Washington, D.C. by the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Pepe was already being as the “most accomplished emergency medical services physician of our generation.”