Dan Deckelbaum
- Professor of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine
- Associate Member, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
- Honorary Associate Professor of the National University of Rwanda
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Dr. Dan Deckelbaum is Professor of surgery and critical care medicine at the Divisions of Trauma and General Surgery at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), associate member of the Department of Epidemiology, biostatistics and occupational health at McGill University, and honorary associate professor of the National University of Rwanda. He obtained his subspecialty training in trauma surgery and critical care at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. During his fellowship he also completed a Masters of Public Health at the University of Miami.
In addition to his passion for clinical practice, he has developed an avid interest in global surgical education and development, as well as disaster preparedness and response, establishing and co-directing the MUHC Centre for Global Surgery. His interest in global health is founded upon on-site clinical experience in government hospitals in East Africa as well as disaster response activities in Somalia, Kenya, Turks and Caicos, and Haiti. Dr. Deckelbaum aims at developing and implementing trauma and emergency capacity building programs in many countries around the world where the plight of injury is constantly on the rise. He is also active in identifying innovative approaches to enhance medical students’ education in global surgery and has supervised numerous students and resident through their global surgical research, education and clinical activities.
