Jay Doucet, MD, FACS http://drdoucet.ucsd.edu Associate Professor Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU)

Dr. Doucet joined the University of California San Diego Trauma Division on March 2007.  Previously from 2001 to 2003, he served as a Trauma and Surgical Critical Care fellow at UC San Diego Medical Center.  He was an attending surgeon at the U.S. Navy Trauma Training Center at Los Angeles County Medical Center / University of Southern California (USC), followed by two years at the University of British Columbia, where he was responsible for expanding the mission of the Canadian Forces Trauma Training Center.  Dr. Doucet has served on several overseas tours as a military surgeon in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.   After obtaining his M.D. from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada in 1988,  Dr. Doucet served in the Canadian Air Force as a General Duty Medical Officer and Flight Surgeon. In 1991-1992 he was Team Physician to 431 Squadron (The Snowbirds). He is also a pilot and flight instructor. He finished his general surgery training in 1997 and completed a Fellowship and a Master’s Degree program in blood substitutes in 1999 at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.   Dr Doucet is a member of the American Association for Surgery of Trauma (AAST) and Vice-Chair of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma for San Diego and Imperial Counties. He is board certified in Surgery and in Surgical Critical Care by the American Board of Surgery.    Dr. Doucet's areas of special interest and accomplishments are: - Trauma and surgical critical care - Prehospital and Combat Casualty care - Disaster medicine - Transfusion and Blood Substitutes - Surgical and Trauma Education and Simulation

To make an appointment with Dr. Jay Doucet, please call: (619)543-7200

Dr. Jay Doucet's Website: http://drdoucet.ucsd.edu