Norman A. Paradis, M.D., is a professor of medicine at Dartmouth College and the director of emergency medicine research at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Paradis is an emergency physician who works in academic medical research and private sector biomedical device development. He is one of the first physicians to complete a research fellowship in resuscitation. His interests include cardiac arrest, shock, CPR hemodynamics, hypothermia, molecular and optical biomarkers. Paradis has been the chief medical officer for a number of companies. He has been on faculty and an administrator at University of Colorado, NYU, Columbia, USC, and VCU.