Dr. Juan C. Duchesne: He 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 founder of the SPARC Academy and has presented his research results at national and international trauma and critical care surgical conferences. He is recipient of the prestigious Shipley Award for excellence in surgical research by the Southern Surgical Society and recently inducted in to the oldest scientific research honor society in America the Sigma XI. Dr. Duchesne finished in 2025 his masters in disaster management at Tulane School of Public Health and is well published, with more than 300 publications and 200 national and international guest speaker invitations. Dr Duchesne is currently at University of Mississippi Medical Center as Division Chief of Trauma, Peds, Burns, and Acute Care Surgery at the only Level I trauma center in the state.