Col. (Ret.) Jeremy W. Cannon, MD, SM, FACS

Dr. Cannon is a professor of surgery at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he serves as the surgeon champion for the Penn Medicine-US Navy Trauma Training Partnership.

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 as a trauma surgeon, deploying to both Iraq and Afghanistan during that time. He retired as a Colonel in the US Air Force Reserve in 2023.

Dr. Cannon’s research interests include improving outcomes from hemorrhagic shock, developing technology for the management of acutely injured patients, and public policy on military medical combat readiness and civilian disaster response. He served as the 2022–2023 President of the Excelsior Surgical Society and recently edited Edward D. Churchill’s Surgeon to Soldiers 2024 Edition.