.jpeg.jpg "Paul E. Pepe, MD, , MACP, FAEMS photo")
Global Coordinator, Metropolitan EMS Medical Directors Alliance
University of Texas Health Sciences, Houston, Texas, USA
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 coordinates the metropolitan 9-1-1 system medical directors ("Eagles") global alliance, its day-to-day networking, and the renowned "Eagles" State-of-the-Science conferences.
Before retiring (2019) from the University of Texas (UT) 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 an adjunct Professor of Management, Policy and Community Health at the UT Public Health School (Houston), he remains a prolific, award-winning researcher whose 4-decade-long track record in critical care encompasses >500 peer-reviewed publications with many landmark papers including the “Chain of Survival”, “Auto-PEEP”, “permissive hypotension” in trauma, "re-appraising mouth-to-mouth breathing", AED-use by citizens (Chicago airport), long COVID remission, and, now, markedly-improved survial with "Neuroprotective (heads-up-bundle) CPR”. He still receives best abstract/paper recognitions from major professional societies including consecutive Star Research Achievement Awards (n=6) from SCCM over the last 5 years (2020-2024 in multiple categories).
Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine, EM and EMS, he has forged multi-specialty approaches to critical care science, engendering many international honors such as the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Silver-Anniversary Award for lifetime 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.”