Juan Duchesne

Dr. Juan C. Duchesne: received his undergraduate education at the University of Puerto Rico (Humacao, Puerto Rico) and his Medical Degree from Ponce School of Medicine (Ponce, Puerto Rico). Dr. Duchesne completed his general surgery residency and fellowship training at the Louisiana State University Health Science Center (New Orleans, LA). Following his fellowship training in 2005, Dr. Duchesne was Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery/Trauma/Critical Care at The University of Mississippi Medical Center (Jackson, MS). While there, he received the Outstanding Clinical Research Achievement Award. He joined the full-time faculty as an assistant professor Tulane School of Medicine in December 2006. In 2013, Dr Duchesne was in charge of developing a Level II Trauma Center at North Oaks medical center in Hammond Louisiana. He was able to achieve ACS verification of the trauma center within 2 years. He served as Chair of the Committee of Trauma for the Louisiana chapter with the American College of Surgeons and past president of the LA Chapter ACS. He is the co-founder of the International Damage Control Resuscitation (DCR) educational program as well as the SPARC Academy and has presented his research results at national and international trauma and critical care surgical conferences. Dr. Duchesne is currently in the last year of his masters in disaster management and is well published, with over 250 publications and more than 100 national and international guest speaker invitations. Dr Duchesne accepted a new position at University of Mississippi Medical Center as Division Chief of Trauma and Critical Care and Trauma Medical Director for Adults and Pediatrics at the only Level I trauma center in the state.