Joe DuBose is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He performed surgical training at Keesler Air Force Base Medical Center and the University of Virginia from 2001-2006. Additional fellowship training in surgical critical care and trauma surgery was completed at Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Hospital from 2006-2008. Lt Col DuBose has been a staff trauma surgeon and surgical intensivist at Wilford Hall Medical Center and as an assistant professor of surgery at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center / University of Maryland since 2008. During that period he has deployed as a trauma director once to the Air Force Theater Hospital at Balad Air Base in Iraq (2009) and twice in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan (Kandahar-2010; Bagram Air Base 2011-2012). He presently holds the title of Clinical Professor at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

In this episode we talk to Dr. DuBose about his training pathway, his experience in the military, and about integrating his vascular training with his trauma background, which includes his thoughts about REBOA.

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Links: 

1. Evolving Paradigms In Vascular Injury Management. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfSYEM797Gg

2. Dr. Dubose’s Tiger Country podcast! https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/tiger-country-the-trauma-podcast-joseph-4L9V2rU8x53/

3. EMCrit 281 – Why Can’t Emergency Medicine and Trauma Surgery Just Get Along?https://emcrit.org/emcrit/emergency-medicine-and-trauma-surgery-just-get-along/

4. EMCrit170 – the ER REBOA Catheter with Joe DuBose. https://emcrit.org/emcrit/er-reboa/

5. The AAST prospective Aortic Occlusion for Resuscitation in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (AORTA) registry: Data on contemporary utilization and outcomes of aortic occlusion and resuscitative balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27050883/