Edward Panacek, MD, MPH

Dr. Panacek received his undergraduate education at UCLA, and his MD degree from the University of South Alabama. His postgraduate training was in Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine, all at UC Davis Medical Center. From 1986-1992, he was an Assistant Professor of Medicine (critical care and emergency medicine) at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland. During that time, he developed a clinical trials program focused on sepsis and critical care. In 1992 he joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis, as an Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine and in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He was promoted to Professor in 1997, and served as the EM Residency Program Director from 1992-2000. From 2000-2014 he served as the Director of the Office of Clinical Trials and the EM Research Associates Program at UCD. In 2015 he moved to the University of South Alabama in Mobile as the new Chair of Emergency Medicine, and while there he developed a new EM residency, 3 new EDs, and a clinical research program.

Dr. Panacek has over 300 scientific publications (over 150 peer-reviewed articles, over 50 Book Chapters/Invited Manuscripts, and over 130 research abstracts). He has served as an associate editor for two of the major journals in emergency medicine and is on the editorial board of multiple other journals. He has chaired the Executive Committees and served as the overall Academic Principal Investigator for multiple large multi-center national and international clinical trials. He has won numerous national awards, including the prestigious "Outstanding contributions in research award" from the American College of Emergency Medicine in 2002, the "Hal Jayne Academic Excellence Award" from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine in 2012, and the Lifetime Achievement Awards, from the University of Maryland in 2007 and from the ACEP in 2017, for contributions in EM research and academics.