Edward Panacek

MD, FACEP

Dr. Panacek received his undergraduate education (BA) 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, at UC Davis, completed in 1986.  The fellowship included large animal bench research. From 1986, through 1992, he was an Assistant Professor of Medicine (critical care and emergency medicine) at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland.  There he developed a clinical trials program focused on sepsis and critical care and also directed the Emergency Dept and two fellowship programs ( EM and CM) for part of the time.

In 1992, he joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis, as an Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine, and in Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine. He was promoted to Professor in 1997.  He served as the EM Residency Program Director, from 1992 until 2000.  He obtained an MPH in Epidemiology from the School of Public Health, University of California - Berkeley in 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 a tenured Professor. While there he developed a new EM residency, 3 new EDs, and a clinical research program.

Dr. Panacek has over 300 scientific publications (over 160 peer-reviewed articles, over 50 Book Chapters/Invited Manuscripts and over 140 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 several national awards, including the 2002 “Outstanding contributions in research award” from the American College of Emergency Medicine, and the “Hal Jayne Academic Excellence Award” from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine in 2012. In 1997 he developed the ACEP Emergency Medicine Basic Research Skills (EMBRS) Course and served as the director for 20 years.