Jeremy Cannon

About

Jeremy W. Cannon, MD, SM, is professor of surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of the US Air Force Academy and Harvard Medical School and holds a master of science in mechanical engineering from MIT. He served on active duty in the US Air Force from 2006 to 2015 and deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan as a trauma surgeon during that time. In 2023, he retired as a colonel from the US Air Force Reserve.

His key accomplishments and professional milestones include receiving the Paul W. Myers Award for Outstanding Contributions to Air Force Medicine (2011), serving as founding director of the Department of Defense Adult Extracorporeal Life Support/Lung Rescue Program (2011–15), serving as trauma program medical director, Brooke Army Medical Center Level 1 Trauma Center (the only Level 1 trauma center in the Department of Defense, 2012–15), and serving as trauma program medical director, Penn Medicine/Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Level 1 Trauma Center (2018–23). He currently codirects the Penn Acute Research Collaboration and leads the Penn Medicine–US Navy Trauma Training Partnership as surgeon champion.