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Dr. Nicole Turgeon
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Gary A. Vercruysse, MD
Faculty Appointment
green arrow Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Trauma/Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Clinical Appointment
green arrow Co-Director, Grady Memorial Hospital Burn Unit

Military
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Major, Medical Corps, United States Air Force Reserve, 59th Surgical Specialists Squadron, Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland AFB, San Antonio, TX, 2008-

green arrow Chief of Surgery, 332nd United States Air Force Theater Hospital, Balad, Iraq, 9/2008-1/2009

Telephone
green arrow 404.616.3550

Affiliation
green arrow Grady Memorial Hospital

Board Certification
green arrow General Surgery
green arrow Surgical Critical Care

Medical Degree
green arrow Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, MI, Class of 1997

Postgraduate Training
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General Surgery Residency, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1997–2002

green arrow Surgical Critical Care and Trauma Surgery Fellowship, R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 2002–2003

Current Organizational Memberships
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American College of Surgeons, Fellow

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Society of Critical Care Medicine–Texas Chapter, Charter Member

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Southwestern Surgical Congress

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Southeastern Surgical Congress

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Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma

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Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons

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Society of Critical Care Medicine

green arrow Association for Academic Surgery
green arrow Western Trauma Association

Clinical Specialties
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Abdominal trauma

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Hypothermia, coagulopathy and TEG analysis

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Advanced cardiac life support


Research Interests
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Characterization of the relationship between vasopressin and vasodilatory hemorrhagic shock

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Massive transfusion protocol development in an urban trauma center

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Pediatric burn unit experience

green arrow Efficacy of paravertebral spinal block in the patient with multiple rib fractures

Year Joined Emory as a Faculty Member
green arrow 2006

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