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, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a professor of surgery and neurosurgery and has a cross-appointment in the School of Nursing. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Ottawa in Canada and completed his doctorate and general surgery residency in experimental surgery at McGill University in Montreal, 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, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Philadelphia VA. He is 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. He is the Penn Simulation Center specialty director for surgical critical care and an associate examiner for the American Board of Surgery. Dr. Pascual serves and has served as chair and vice-chair of multiple national committees of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) and American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST). He has authored more than 150 book chapters, commentaries, and original manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Pascual has served SCCM in many capacities since joining in 2000. In addition to his nine years on the Council, Dr. Pascual was cochair of SCCM’s Congress Program Committee and Strategic Planning Management Committee and chaired the Graduate and Resident Education Committee, Lifetime Achievement Award Subcommittee, and Research Section Steering Committee. He served as secretary and chair of the Research Section and was part of the inaugural section executive committee. In 2015, he was recognized with SCCM’s Presidential Citation Award. Dr. Pascual is also an editorial board member for Critical Care Medicine and serves as ad hoc reviewer for several other medical and surgical journals. He is a frequent author, lecturer, and mentor and has received numerous research funding grants and awards throughout his years in academic and clinical practice.