Pauline K. Park, MD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, and Co-Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit in the Division of Acute Care Surgery, at the University of Michigan Hospitals. Dr. Park received her undergraduate training at Pennsylvania State University with a combined B.S.-M.D. degree in Science, with Honors, and her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College. She completed postgraduate training in General Surgery, Surgical Research, and Endothelium and Vascular Grafts, at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Dr. Park joined the General Surgery faculty at the University of Michigan in 2007. She is certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, and by the American College of Surgeons in Advanced Trauma Life Support. Dr. Park is a regular participant reviewer on national committees concerning the Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS); she serves as a member of the national Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the ARDSNet Steering Committee (a committee which manages a large number of national studies on therapy for acute lung injury and ARDS). She has been Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on a number of research grants, and also served as ad hoc reviewer for Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques. Dr. Park is a member of many surgical societies, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. She has participated on the Board of Directors of the Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation, and the Jefferson Insulin Infusion Protocol Committee, to establish guidelines for maintaining tight glucose control in critical care settings. Dr. Park's research efforts include basic science work in endothelial growth and migration, to various industry drug trials, multi-institutional small bowel injury study, studies of breast cancer patients, and most recently on human activated protein C and the ARDS network studies. |
