Jose L. Pascual, MD, PhD, FRCS(C), FACS, FCCM, is the System Section Chief of Surgical Critical Care for the Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, USA.  He is a Professor of Surgery and Neurosurgery and has a cross appointment in the School of Nursing.  He trained at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he completed his general surgery residency as well as a PhD in Experimental Surgery. Prior to this, he obtained an MD from the University of Ottawa in Canada.  He completed his fellowship in trauma and surgical critical care at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Pascual is an attending surgical intensivist at Penn Presbyterian Hospital, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and at the Philadelphia VA.  He is the co-Medical Director of the surgical ICU at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.  He also attends as a neurointensivist in the Penn System.  Dr. Pascual currently runs a bench research laboratory specializing in trauma and specifically traumatic brain injury (TBI).   He is the Penn Simulation Center Specialty Director for Surgical Critical Care, and Associate Examiner of the American Board of Surgery.  Dr. Pascual serves and has served in multiple national Committees as Chair and vice Chair for the Eastern and American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST & AAST). He has authored over 130 chapters, commentaries and original manuscripts in peer reviewed journals.  

Dr. Pascual has served the Society of Critical Care Medicine in many capacities since joining in 2000. In addition to his ten years on Council, Dr. Pascual was co-chair of the SCCM’s Congress Program Committee and the Strategic Planning Management Committee and chaired the Graduate and Resident Education Committee, Lifetime Achievement Award Subcommittee, and Research Section Steering Committee. He currently serves as President for the Society of Critical Care Medicine.  He is a frequent author, lecturer and mentor and has received numerous research funding grants and awards over his years in academic and clinical practice.