JayJosephDoucetMDMSc FRCSC FACS RDMS

Trauma Surgery & Surgical Critical Care

Professor and Chief, Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Burns & Acute Care Surgery, UC San Diego

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Office
200 W Arbor Dr MC8896
Div of Trauma UC San Diego Health
San Diego, CA 92103
Phone+1 619-543-7200

Fax+1 619-543-7202

Dr. Jay Doucet is a general surgeon in San Diego, CA and is a Professor of Clinical Surgery with UC San Diego Health. He is experienced in trauma and surgical critical care, general surgical infections, and robotic general surgery. He is board-certified by the American Board of Surgery in General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care and by the American Board of Anesthesiology in Neurocritical care.

University of California (San Diego) Medical CenterFellowship, Surgical Critical Care, 2001 - 2002
Memorial University of Newfoundland FOMClass of 1988

Honorary Medal in Combat Casualty Care American Association for Surgery of Trauma, 2005
Super Doctor SuperDoctors.com
Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons

PubMed

Mortality in a Clostridium sordellii Case Series.
Lisa Kurth, William Johnston, Kendra Black, Jay Doucet, Jessica Weaver
The Journal of Surgical Research. 2024-12-01
1 citations
Lung ultrasonography underdiagnoses clinically significant pneumothorax.
Jarrett E Santorelli, Aaron Marshall, Louis Perkins, Laura Adams, Lisa Kurth
Surgery. 2024-12-01
Upper-Extremity Injuries in a Level 1 Trauma Center Following Border Wall Height Increase.
Emma Williams, Vivian Hu, Cooper Haaland, Meera Reghunathan, Laura N Haines
Journal of Hand Surgery Global Online. 2024-11-01

Border Patrol Avoiding Medical Costs by Releasing Injured Migrants, Records ShowOctober 7th, 2022
Why Is It so Hard to Get Wall-Fall Injury Data Published?August 16th, 2022
San Diego on Track for Record Number of Border Wall HospitalizationsAugust 12th, 2022
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Chair, UCSD Health System Critical Care Transfusion Commitee 2013 - Present
Chair, UCSD Health System Emergency Preparedness Advisory Commitee 2013 - 2014
Chair, American College of Surgeons, Committee on Trauma, Subcommittee on Disaster and Mass Casualties 2012 - 2018
Chair, UCSD Health System Critical Care Commitee 2011 - 2014