Paul E. Pepe, MD, MPH

• Medical Director, City of Dallas EMS and the Dallas Metropolitan BioTel EMS System
• Medical Director, Dallas Metropolitan Medical Response System
• Professor of Medicine, Surgery, Public Health and Chair, Emergency Medicine, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the Parkland Health and Hospital System, Dallas.

  Dr. Pepe is, among many other things, the head of the EMS Medical Direction Team for the thirteen Dallas area communities involved in the UTSW-PMH Biotel system. Over his career, Dr. Pepe has attained tenured appointments as full professor in multiple fields, including Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, and Public Health, and he has been employed as a municipal or state government official for nearly two decades. Dr. Pepe trained under Dr Leaonard Cobb and Dr. Michael Copass in the well-known Seattle Medic I Program. Dr. Pepe was an author of the original 1991 "Chain of Survival" publication. He was the Director of the Houston EMS system from 1982 to 1996. In 1996, Dr. Pepe was recruited to become Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh and was concurrently appointed to the Emergency Medical Director for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania prior to his recruitment to Dallas in March of 2000.

  Among many key national positions, Dr. Pepe has served as the first President-Elect of the National Association of EMS Physicians and as inaugural Associate Editor for EMS for Academic Emergency Medicine. He has been a longstanding member of the National Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Basic Life Support committees of the American Heart Association (AHA), and he serves as a national spokesperson for various AHA activities. An author of nearly 400 published scientific papers and abstracts, he has written cutting-edge papers on EMS and resuscitation for many leading medical organizations such as the AHA, the National Institute of Health, the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Emergency Physicians. Additionally, Dr. Pepe has been featured routinely in many network and prime-time broadcasts ("Rescue 9-1-1" pilot, an ABC News Nightline special, "In The ER", and the Learning Channel's feature, "The Strongest Link"). He has won multiple awards regarding health policy, community service, academic and professional societies, both he in the U.S. and overseas, and has provided consultation for multiple foreign governments regarding emergency health services organizing.