J. Perren Cobb, MD, FACS
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri

Organizing Committee
Session Chair: Network Updates           
Speaker: Opening Remarks, Conclusions: Surviving Stress           

Dr. Cobb graduated cum laude with a degree in medicine from University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1986. From 1986-1994 he completed his residency General Surgery at the University of California-San Francisco. From 1989-1992 he was a Fellow in the Critical Care Medicine Department at NIH, and from 1994-1995, he completed a fellowship in the Multidisciplinary (Surgical) Critical Care Training Program at the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Cobb is currently Professor of Surgery and Associate Professor of Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He specializes in surgical critical care with research interests in the pathophysiology of sepsis and injury. He is also the Director of the Cellular Injury and Adaptation Laboratory and the University’s new Center for Critical Illness and Health Engineering.

Dr. Cobb’s investigative work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation.

Dr Cobb serves on the Steering Committee of the NIGMS Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury Program (“Trauma Glue Grant”).  An active member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, Dr. Cobb was the co-chair of the Surgical Section Research Committee as well as a member of the Membership Committee. He is a fellow in the American College of Surgeons and past-president of the Association for Academic Surgery.  Dr. Cobb is a member of the following editorial boards: Journal of Surgical Research and Shock.