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Paul Pepe

Paul E. Pepe, MD, MPH, FAEMS, MCCM, MACP, FACEP, FRCP, FSSEM

- Medical Director, Dallas County (TX) EMS/Public Safety
- Adjunct Professor of Management, Policy & Community Health, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, Houston, TX;
- Voluntary Professor of Surgery, the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL;
- EMS Medical Director for Research, Education, and Special Operations for Palm Beach, Broward and Brevard Counties (FL)
and numerous other south Florida municipalities including Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Coral Springs, Davie, Sunrise, Parkland, FL
- Past-Professor of Surgery, Medicine, Pediatrics, Public Health and Chair, Emergency Medicine and Regional Director, Disaster/Event
Preparedness, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School & Parkland Emergency-Trauma Center, Dallas, TX

Among dozens of daily tasks, Dr. Pepe leads the so-called “Eagles” global-alliance. For 5 decades, he has pioneered many of our advances in resuscitation medicine/EMS and EMS education. A critical-care clinician/scientist turned “street doctor” in Seattle (1970s), he became the first full-time EMS medical director (Houston/1980s-early 90s), forging the EMS-subspecialty, dramatically-increasing survival rates, and producing landmark research. Serving as Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Emergency Medical Director (late 1990s), he then became Dallas County's Medical Director (2000) and Emergency Medicine Professor/Chair at UT Southwestern/Parkland Emergency-Trauma Center.

Co-founding NAEMSP (1984), becoming its first national President-Elect, and launching the NAEMSP Medical Directors course (1989), he now facilitates rapid boots-on-the-ground global informational-exchange through the Eagles becoming NAEMT "Medical-Director-of-the-Year" (2020) following his pivotal role during the early months of COVID. During a lifetime-achievement award ceremony (2005/American College of Emergency Physicians), presented in Washington, DC by the U.S. Surgeon General, he was already monikered "the most accomplished EMS physician of our generation". That attribution continues today as he still garners prestigious best scientific-paper awards annually from numerous professional societies including SCCM (2020,2021,2022,2023); WSAEM/May 2022; ACEP/October2022; EMS2022 Congress (Glasgow,May 2022) and several others.

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