Jay Joseph Doucet MD MSc FRCSC FACS RDMS

Summary

• Dr. Jay Doucet is Professor of Surgery at the Florida State University College of Medicine and Program Director of the planned Florida State University - Lee Health General Surgery Residency Program in Fort Myers, Florida. He is a general surgeon 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, and holds ARDMS credentialing as a registered diagnostic medical sonographer.
  
  Prior to joining Lee Health, Dr. Doucet served as Professor and Chief of the Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, Burns, and Acute Care Surgery at UC San Diego Health, where he maintains a research affiliation. His academic work spans more than 130 peer-reviewed publications, with research interests including trauma resuscitation and whole blood transfusion, injury prevention and injury epidemiology — including emerging mechanisms such as electric bicycle and electric motorcycle injuries — workplace violence affecting healthcare workers, health services and disaster research, point-of-care ultrasound, and surgical care in austere and spaceflight environments.
  
  Dr. Doucet's career includes 22 years of military medical service in the Canadian Forces, with six operational deployments including three combat tours in Afghanistan, service as a flight surgeon with the Canadian Forces Snowbirds aerobatic team, a 7-year exchange posting with the United States Navy, and aerospace medical work on the RCAF/Canadian Space Agency motion sickness program. He is a commercial airplane pilot and certified flight instructor - instrument.
  
  He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and remains actively engaged in surgical education, prehospital and EMS education, and national trauma system advocacy.