Pauline K. Park, MD, FACS, FCCM

Professor, Surgery
Co-Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Program Director, Surgical Critical Care Fellowship

734-936-2661
parkpk@med.umich.edu

Dr. Park is Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan, Co-Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Michigan Medicine and Program Director fot the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship.  She received her MD from Jefferson Medical College and completed residency in General Surgery at the Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals.  She completed an additional research fellowship investigating microvascular endothelial cell-vascular prosthetic interactions, working with a team translating bench discoveries to preclinical and Phase I device studies in critical limb ischemia.  She holds board certification in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Critical Care Medicine.

Dr. Park’s ongoing clinical and research interest is in the prevention and support of acute lung injury, particularly severe hypoxic respiratory failure in critically ill and injured patients.  She served as Co-Principal Investigator of the Michigan Clinical Center for the NHLBI Prevention and Early Treatment of Acute Lung Injury (PETAL) Network, serving as Co-Chair of the Natural History and Insitutional Support committees.  She has served as the University of Michigan site principal investigator for several Phase I, II and III clinical trials in critical care and innovative mechanical ventilation, with funding from NHLBI, NIAID, PCORI, COVID Operation Warp Speed and industry.  She has participated as a member of the steering committee of the original ARDSNetwork, Chair of the Ancillary Studies/Publication Committee for the USCIITG Lung Injury Prevention group, the CIHR OSCILLATE investigator group, the American Association for Surgery of Trauma Multi Institutional Trials Committee and the Michigan Committee on Trauma.  Her published work has focused on interventional and observational trials in lung injury prevention, ventilator strategies, extracorporeal support, trauma surgery and surgical critical care.  She has presented nationally and internationally on lung injury prevention, extracorporeal support and advanced ventilator strategies.  Dr. Park has been a recipient of the Society of Critical Care Medicine Presidential Citation and Annual Scientific Award.