Dr. Deutschman is tenured Professor of Anesthesiology & critical care and Surgery at The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia.  He received a BS in Chemistry from Trinity College, an MS in Chemistry from Northwestern University and his MD from New York Medical College.  After flirting with a career in Neurosurgery, Dr. Deutschman was one of the first Fellows in Surgical critical care at the University of Minnesota program directed by former SCCM President Frank B. Cerra.  Dr. Deutschman then did a residency in Anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins and joined the faculty there, attending in the Surgical ICU with such notables as Drs. Tim Buchman and Pam Lipsett. He was recruited to Penn in 1993 and has remained there since. 

Dr. Deutschman was introduced to the SCCM in 1984 by Dr. Cerra and has been a member of the Society ever since.  During that time he has chaired the Public Policy and Research Committees and the Anesthesiology Section.  Prior to becoming Treasurer and advancing to the Executive Committee he held the designated Anesthesiology Council seat.  He was awarded fellowship in the American College of Critical Care Medicine in 1987. 

Dr. Deutschman cares for critically ill surgical patients as a member of the multi-disciplinary Surgical Critical Care Service at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.  He has been involved in the clinical education of numerous students, residents in Anesthesiology, Surgery and Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Fellows based in Anesthesiology, Surgery, Pulmonary Medicine and Emergency Medicine.  From 1993 to 2008 he directed the Critical Care Fellowship in the Department of Anesthesiology and critical care at Penn.  In 2004, Dr. Deutschman won the Leonard Berwick Award from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.  This is based on recommendation from students, residents and fellows and is presented to the faculty member who best combines clinical medicine and basic science in their teaching. 

Dr. Deutschman has been an NIH-funded laboratory investigator since 1993.  His primary focus is on the effects of experimental sepsis on hepatic signal transduction, cytokine responses, mitochondrial dysfunction and inhibition of electron transport, heat shock protein biology, inflammatory lung injury and the use of gene therapy to alter pulmonary responses.  Numerous research fellows have made this work possible.  Several have become independent investigators.  Dr. Deutschman has served on the NIH Surgery, Anesthesia and Trauma Study Section and participated in the review of VA Merit Awards. 

Like many enthusiastic but marginal former athletes, Dr. Deutschman is an avid sports fan.  He remains dedicated to the teams of his long-removed youth and was annoyingly elated when the Giants won the Super Bowl during the SCCM Congress in Honolulu.  He and Pam Lipsett have a long-standing, usually amiable rivalry regarding the Yankees (27 World Series victories) and the Red Sox (7 World Series victories).