Raúl J. Gazmuri

Dr. Gazmuri is a Critical Care Physician, Professor of Medicine, Physiology & Biophysics, and Director of the Resuscitation Institute at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (RFUMS).  He is also the Section Chief of Critical Care Medicine and ICU Director at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC).

Dr. Gazmuri obtained his M.D. degree and completed Internal Medicine training in Chile before traveling to the United States in 1986 for a research fellowship at today’s RFUMS under the mentorship of late Professor Max Harry Weil M.D., Ph.D., one of the founding fathers of Critical Care Medicine.  Dr. Gazmuri devoted three years as a full-time research fellow and five additional years as a Critical Care Fellow, Ph.D. student, and junior faculty under Dr. Weil’s mentorship.  In 1994, he earned his Ph.D. degree in Physiology & Biophysics, in 1997 he was inducted Fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM), and in 2024 he was elected Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA).

At FHCC, he leads a mixed Critical Care Unit and pioneered the development of a Rapid Response System based on activation by single early warning signs. He also participates as site Principal Investigator in multicenter clinical trials.  In 2010, RFUMS supported the creation of the Resuscitation Institute – for which he serves as Director – providing generous laboratory and office space along with administrative support.  As Director and Principal Investigator, he is committed to basic science and translational research in various acute life-threatening conditions including cardiac arrest, hemorrhagic shock, traumatic brain injury, and more recently septic shock with a special focus on understanding mechanisms at the cell and molecular level and development of new treatments for clinical translation.

Dr. Gazmuri enjoys teaching Medical Students and Internal Medicine Residents at the bedside, in his research laboratory, and offering elective courses on Acute Care Medicine.  This year he was selected by the Society of Critical Care Medicine as the 2024 recipient of the Asmund S. Laerdal Memorial Lecture Award for his research on Resuscitation and Critical Care Medicine.

Dr. Gazmuri has contributed to the field of Resuscitation and Critical Care Medicine with more than 200 publications and received – as primary and/or senior author – multiple awards at scientific meetings.  He has served as a member of the BLS, ACLS, and the Scientific Subcommittees of the AHA ECC Committee; member of ILCOR; member of the Resuscitation Science Symposium organizing committee; and occasionally serves at VHA and NIH Study Sections.

In 2017, Dr. Gazmuri founded Resuscitation Therapeutics, Inc. with the goal of facilitating clinical translation of new therapies and strategies for life-threatening medical emergencies occurring in pre-hospital and hospital environments. A complete list of original peer-reviewed publications is available at My Bibliography (maintained by the US National Library of Medicine).