Paul Rapp, Ph.D.

I attended the University of Illinois as a James Scholar and received a Bachelors degree in Physiology and a second Bachelors degree in Engineering Physics. I then attended Cambridge University as a Churchill Scholar and received my Ph.D. in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics under the direction of Professor Sir James Lighthill, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. Following graduation, I was elected to a Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University. During this period, I 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. This work led to the publication of the calcium-cyclic nucleotide oscillator hypothesis.

At present, I am a Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine at the Uniformed Services University (the Department of Defense Medical School located at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center) and Director of the Traumatic Injury Research Program. I also hold a secondary appointment as a Professor of Medical and Clinical Psychology. Previously I was a Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology at Drexel University College of Medicine and for a time the Director of Research at the Clinical Research Center at Norristown State Psychiatric Hospital. While in Philadelphia, I was a Candidate at the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis and practiced under supervision as a psychotherapist/psychoanalyst at the Philadelphia Consultation Center. I was a service provider for the City of Philadelphia under the Center’s Community Based Health Contract. I have held visiting faculty appointments in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Western Australia and have been a Visiting Professor at UCI since 2018.