Faculty Biography

Paul Rapp, Ph.D.

Paul Rapp, Ph.D.
Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine

Dr. Rapp attended the University of Illinois as a James Scholar. He received a Bachelors degree in Physiology (minor in Chemistry) and a second Bachelors degree in Engineering Physics in 1972. He then attended Cambridge University as a Churchill Scholar and received his Ph.D. in 1975. His doctoral work, under the supervision of Professor Sir James Lighthill, was conducted in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Following graduation he was elected to a Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. During this period he continued teaching in the Faculty of Mathematics and performed combined theoretical and experimental work in collaboration with Professor Sir Michael Berridge in the Invertebrate Chemistry and Physiology Unit at Cambridge. He joined the faculty of the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1979.
 
At present, Rapp is a Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University and Director of the Traumatic Injury Research Program. Previously he was a Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology at Drexel University College of Medicine (the successor organization to the Medical College of Pennsylvania).
 
Professor Rapp is a Psychoanalytic Candidate at the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis and has practiced as a psychotherapist at the Philadelphia Consultation Center.
 
He is a past editor of Physica, and is currently on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, Chaos and Complexity Letters, and Cognitive Neurodynamics. Past honors include a Certificate of Commendation from the Central Intelligence Agency for "significant contributions to the mission of the Office of Research and Development."
 

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