Dr. Jeremy W. Cannon, MD

Written By Justin Hobbs

Last Name: Cannon

First Name: Jeremy

ACNSL Committees:

  • National Security and the All-Volunteer Force

  • Indo-Pacific

  • Health and Readiness Committee

Last or Significant Assignment:

  • 2024–25 Veteran Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Medals and Honors:

  • Meritorious Service Medal (Military Decoration), United States Air Force — 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2019

  • Paul W. Myers Award for Outstanding Contributions to Air Force Medicine (presented to the Air Force Medical Corps Officer who has made the most significant contributions to the continued good health of the men and women of the United States Air Force) — 2011

  • Defense Superior Service Medal (Military Decoration), United States Air Force — 2023

  • Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) John P. Pryor, MD Distinguished Service in Military Casualty Care Award — 2026

Jeremy W. Cannon, MD, SM, FACS is Professor of Surgery and Assistant Dean for Veterans Affairs for Penn Medicine. A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Harvard Medical School, and MIT, he served on active duty from 2006–2015 with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Now retired from the Air Force Reserve, he continues to practice trauma, surgical critical care and emergency surgery at Penn. He was a 2024–25 Veteran Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and he recently edited Edward D. Churchill’s Surgeon to Soldiers (2024 Edition).

His areas of expertise include trauma surgery, surgical critical care, and combat casualty care, military medicine, military medical readiness, and defense health policy, and military-civilian medical integration and health system resilience for mass casualty preparedness

His publications include:

BOOKS

  • Pascual JL, Cannon JW: Hemorrhagic Shock: Recognition, Pathophysiology & Management. Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, NY, 2017.

  • Cannon JW, Elster EA: Edward D. Churchill's Surgeon to Soldiers: Diary and Records of the Surgical Consultant, Allied Force Headquarters, World War II, 2024 Edition with Modern Commentary. Wolters Kluwer, Philadelphia, PA, 2024.

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