CURRICULUM VITAE
Joseph Benton Dupont, Jr., MD, FACS
Current Title: Vice Chairman Dept. of Surgery
Earl K. Long Medical Center
Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery
LSU Health Sciences Center
Business Address: 3401 North Boulevard, Suite 400
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
Business Telephone
and Telefax: Phone: (225) 381-2757; FAX: (225) 381-2762
Business email address:
Education
Undergraduate: Tulane University, New Orleans
Degree: Biology Major, Bachelor of Science, June 1969
Louisiana State University Medical Center
Degree: M.D., 1973
Postgraduate:
Internship – Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia
July 1973 – June 1974
General Surgery Residency – Charity Hospital, LSU Service
July 1974 – June 1977
Fellowship Surgical Oncology – M.D. Anderson Hospital,
Houston, Texas July 1977 – June 1978
Chief Administrative Surgical Resident – LSU Surgical Service,
Charity Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana July 1978 – June 1979
Board Certifications:
American Board of Surgery, 1980, Part I Qualifying Exam and Part II, Certifying Exam. Recertification completed October 1990, Houston, Texas; October 1999, Dallas, Texas.
Licenses: Louisiana, L-012268, 1973 – present
Professional Appointments:
Employment:
August 1979 – June 1980 Hamilton Medical Group, Lafayette, LA.
July 1980 – June 1981 – Burton Eisele Clinic, Hot Spring, Ark.
July 1981 – October 1997 – Baton Rouge Clinic, Baton Rouge, LA.
October 1997 – Present LSU Medical Center, New Orleans, LA., Vice Chairman Dept. of Surgery, Earl K. Long Medical Center
Staff Appointments:
Clinical Instructor in Surgery, LSU Medical Center, Department of Surgery, New Orleans, LA 1977 – 1984
Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, LSU Medical Center, New Orleans, LA
1984 – 1987.
Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, LSU Medical Center, New Orleans, LA 1987 – 2004.
Professor, Clinical Surgery, LSU Medical Center, New Orleans 2004 – Present)
Baton Rouge General Medical Center – Baton Rouge, LA Active Staff
1981 – Present
Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center – Baton Rouge, LA
Earl K. Long Memorial Hospital, Baton Rouge, LA.
Active Staff: 1981- Present
Vice Chief of Surgery: 1983 – 1989
Vice Chief of Surgery: 1987 – Present
Women’s Hospital, Baton Rouge, LA.
Active Staff: 1981- Present
Chief of Surgery: 1988-1989
LSU Department of Surgery, New Orleans, Louisiana:
Clinical Instructor of Surgery 1977 – 1984
Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery 1984-1987
Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery 1987 – 2004
Professor of Clinical Surgery 2004-Present
Baton Rouge General Medical Center, Baton Rouge General Health Center
Chief of General Surgery 1985-1991
Chief of Surgical Services 1992-1998
Chairman, Cancer Patient Service Group and Cancer
Committee 1986 – Present
Executive Committee 1990 – 2004
Chief of Staff 1999 – 2004
Earl K. Long Medical Center, Baton Rouge, LA
Vice Chief, Department of Surgery 1983 – 1989
Vice Chief, Department of Surgery 1997 – Present
Memberships:
Alpha Epsilon Delta Honorary Pre-Medical Fraternity 1968 -1969
Outstanding Second Year Surgical Resident, LSU Surgery Service 1975
Outstanding LSU Surgical Resident 1975 – 1976
Chief Administrative Resident, LSU Surgery Service, July 1978 – 1979
American Cancer Society Junior Faculty Clinical Fellowship Award, 1979
Baton Rouge Oncology Group 1981 – 1990
President 1985
Baton Rouge Surgical Association 1985 – present
President
James D. Rives Surgical Society 1977 – present
Society of Surgical Oncology 1985 – present
Board Member, General Health System, Baton Rouge, LA 1997 – present
Board Member, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center
Baton Rouge, LA 1997 – 1999
Board of Directors, Louisiana Cancer Institute 1985 – 1995.
Surgical Association of Louisiana 1979 – present
Councilman at Large 1986 – 1988
Secretary 1988 – 1990
Vice President 1992
President 1993
American College of Surgeons 1984 – Present
ACOS Candidate Group 1979 – 1984
Invited Faculty Lecturer, Post Graduate Course on Gastrointestinal
Malignancy, “The Surgical Management of Gastric Adenocarcinoma”,
Spring Meeting of the American College of Surgeons, New Orleans, LA.
March 30, 1981
La Chapter American College of Surgeons 1984-Present
Young Surgeons Representative, La. Chapter ACS, 1985
Cancer Liaison Physician, Baton Rouge General Medical Health
Center 1985-2001.
Credentials Committee, La. Chapter ACS, 1986-1998
ATLS Certification, ACS
Provider – 1986 – Present
Instructor 1989 – 1990
State Chairman, Committee on Cancer, La. Chapter ACS 1990-1996
President, La. Chapter American College of Surgeons, 1996
Governor at Large, Louisiana, American College of Surgeons 1992-1998
Commission on Cancer, American College of Surgeons Fellowship Representative 1996-2006
Committee on Cancer-Liaison Physician Program 1996 – Present
Committee on Approvals 1996 – 1998
Vice Chairman, Committee on Cancer Liaison Physician Program,
1998 – 1999
Chairman Triad Subcommittee on Cancer Liaison Physician Program, 1999
Chairman, Standing Committee on Liaison Physician Program, Commission on Cancer January 1, 2000 – 2003.
Chairman, Nominating Committee, Commission on Cancer 2003 – 2006.
Executive Committee, Commission Cancer, American College of Surgeons,
2000 – 2006
Board of Governors, American College of Surgeons, 1992 – 1998
Governors Committee on Physicians Health 1992 – 1996
Governors Committee on Hospital Practice 1997 – 1998
Medical Services Review Committee, Medicare Part B,
State of Louisiana 1992 – 1996
Medicare Carrier Advisory Committee, Representative from LA. Chapter
American Board of Surgery, Associate Examiner, February 26 – 28, 1996
New Orleans, LA
Mid-South Division American Cancer Society, Board Member, 1999 – 2002
Research:
January 1976 – July 1976
(A) Animal Research: Analysis of Pancreatic Secretion and Gastric Mucous with Increased Intracranial Pressure
(B) Analysis of Post Shunt Hepatic Encephalopathy in Rats.
Publications:
1. Dupont, J.B., Lee, R., Burton, R., and Cohn, I.: Gastric Cancer: An analysis of 1497 cases. Cancer 41:941-948, March 1978. Presented at the combined meeting of the Society of Head and Neck Surgeons and the Society of Surgical Oncology, May 1977, Hilton Head Island, SC.
2. Dupont, J.B., Guillamondequi, OM., and Jesse, R.H.: Surgical Treament of Advanced Squamous Carcinoma of the Base of the Tongue; The Am. J. Surgery 136: 501-504, October 1978. Presented at the Combined Meeting of the Society of the Head and Neck Surgeons and The American Society of Head and Neck Surgery, May, 1978, Toronto, Canada.
3. Dupont, J.B., Lee, J.R., Burton, G.B., Cohn, I.: Efficacy of Palliative Gastrojejunostomy for Unresectable Gastric Cancer, Submitted for presentation of Southern Association 1979.
4. Dupont, J.B., Breaux, E.P., Schecter, F.G.: Cardiac Tamponade Following Penetrating Mediastinal Injuries: Improved Survival With Early Pericardiocentesis: The Journal of Trauma, Vol. 19, No. 6, 461-466, June 1979. Presented before the Surgery of Trauma, September 15, 1978, Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Accepted for publication in The Journal of Trauma.
5. Dupont, J.B., Cohn, I., Jr.: Gastic Adenocarcinoma Current Problems in Cancer, Vol. IV, No. 8, February 1980. Year Book Medical Publishers.
Meetings:
1. Program Participant, Combined Meeting of the Society of Surgical Oncology and the Society of Head and Neck Surgeons, May 4-7,1997, Hilton Head Island, S.C.
2. Program Participant, Combined Meeting of the Society of Head and Neck Surgeons and the American Society of Head and Neck Surgery, May 1-3, 1978, Toronto, Canada.
3. American College of Surgeons, October 16 – 20, 1978, San Francisco, California.
4. Louisiana Chapter, American College of Surgeons, November 17, 1978, New Orleans, LA.
5. Program Participant, Course on Gastrointestinal Cancer, Spring Meeting, American College of Surgeons, New Orleans, LA., March 30 – April 3, 1981.
6. Society of Surgical Oncology, Houston, Texas, May 1984.
7. Society of Surgical Oncology, Washington, D.C., May 1985.
8. Society of Surgical Oncology, New Orleans, May 1987.
9. Society of Surgical Oncology, Chicago, IL 1997
10. Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider Course, Baton Rouge, LA August, 1986.
11. Advanced Trauma Life Support Instructor Course, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., March, 1987.
12. Program Participant, Louisiana Cancer Institute Symposium on Breast and Ovarian Cancer. October, 1986.
13. Regional Cancer Therapy Symposium, Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute. June 1989.
14. Head and Neck Workshop, Society of Head and Neck Surgeons, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. October 1988.
15. Louisiana Chapter, American College of Surgeons, 1985, 1986, 1987 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 New Orleans, LA.
16. Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Course, LSU School of Veterinary Medicine 1980.
17. Soft Tissue Sarcoma Review Course, M.D. Anderson, Houston, Texas, 1991.
18. National State Chairman Meeting, Cancer Liaison Program, Commission on Cancer, Chicago, IL. Sept. 1991 – 1993.
19. American College of Surgeons, San Francisco, CA. October 1993.
20. Thoracoscopy Training Program, Methodist Hospital Surgical Training Center, Hattiesburg, MS. February, 1992.
21. Louisiana Chapter, ACS/Surgical Society of LA. January 1993,
a. Presidential Address, “Mammography, A Surgeons Perspective’.
22. American College of Surgeons, Spring Meeting, April, 1993, Montreal Canada.
23. Thoracic Surgery Postgraduate Course, 79th Clinical Congress, San Francisco, CA, October 1993.
24. La. Chapter, American College of Surgeons, Surgical Society of LA. January 1994, New Orleans, LA.
25. La. Chapter, American College of Surgeons, Surgical Society of LA. January 1995.
26. Spring Meeting, ACS Commission on Cancer, ACS. Boston, MA. 1995.
27. ACS Clinical Congress, New Orleans, LA. November, 1995.
28. Breast Ultrasound for the Surgeons, The Breast Center, Atlanta, GA. October, 1995
29. La. Chapter ACS, January, 1996, New Orleans, LA.
30. Spring Meeting, American College of Surgeons Commission
a. Annual Meeting Committee on Approvals/Committee on Cancer
b. Liaison Physicians, New York, New York, April 1996.
31. Fall Meeting American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, San Francisco, CA
32. La. Chapter American College of Surgeons, January 1997, New Orleans, LA.
33. Society of Surgical Oncology, Chicago, IL. March 1997.
a. Ultrasound for the Surgical Oncologist Course
b. Cryosurgical Ablation of Hepatic Metastases.
34. Spring Meeting ACS 1997
a. Commission on Cancer
35. Committee on Approvals/Committee on Cancer Liaison Physicians
a. San Diego, CA. 1997
36. American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL., October 1997, Clinical Congress. October 1998, Orlando, FL, October 1999, San Francisco, CA.
37. Southern Surgical Association
a. Hot Springs, VA. December, 1997; West Palm Beach, FL. 1998
b. La. Chapter ACS, New Orleans, LA, January 1998, January 1999
38. Minimally Invasive Nodal Staging for Early Stage Melanoma and Breast Cancer. September 25-27, 1997, 1997, M.D. Anderson Tumor Institute, Houston, Texas.
39. Spring Meeting American College of Surgeons, Baltimore, M.D. April 1998; New York, April, 1999, Washington DC, April 2000.
40. Spring Meeting Commission on Cancer, May 2001, Toronto, Canada.
41. Clinical Congress American College of Surgeons, Oct. 2001, New Orleans, LA. Current Controversies in Cancer Management.
42. Joint Meeting La. Chapter American College of Surgeons, Surgical Association of La., January 2002, New Orleans, LA.
43. Allegheny General Hospital, Surgical Management of Liver Tumors Workshop, February 22-23, 2002, Memphis, TN.
44. Spring Meeting, Commission on Cancer, May 2002, Chicago, IL.
45. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Inst., Liver Cancer Symposium, November 2002, New York, NY.
46. Clinical Congress, American College of Surgeons, October 2002, San Francisco, CA.
47. Joint Meeting La. Chapter American College of Surgeons-Surgical Association of La. January 2003, New Orleans, LA.
48. Spring Meeting Commission on Cancer, May 2003, Chicago, IL.
49. Clinical Congress, American College of Surgeons, October 2003.
50. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Inst. Advances in Head and Neck Surgery, November 2003. New York, NY.
51. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Controversies in Surgery, December 2003, New York, NY.
52. La. State Chapter American College of Surgeons, Surgical Association of La. Joint Meeting January 2004, New Orleans, LA.
53. Society Surgical Oncology Annual Meeting, March 15-18, 2004, New York, NY.
54. Clinical Congress, American College of Surgeons, May 2004, Chicago, IL.
55. Clinical Congress American College of Surgeons, October 2005. San Francisco, CA.
56. Society of Surgical Oncology Annual Meeting, March 2006, San Diego, CA.
57. Women’s Hospital, The Use of MRI in Breast Cancer, November 2006, Baton Rouge, LA.
58. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Controversies, Problems and Techniques in Surgery, 23rd Annual Meeting, December 2006, New York, NY.
59. Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, Updates on Head and Neck Cancer, March 2007, Baton Rouge, LA.
60. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Controversies, Problems and Techniques in Surgery, 24th Annual Meeting, December 2007, New York, NY.
61. Joint Meeting La. Chapter American College of Surgeons, Surgical Association of La., January 2008, New Orleans, LA.
62. The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Current Concepts in Head and Neck Surgery, November 2008, Houston, TX.
63. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Controversies, Problems and Techniques in Surgery, 25th Annual Meeting, December 2008, New York, NY.
64. The Society of Surgical Oncology, 62nd Annual Cancer Symposium, March 2009, Phoenix, AZ.
65. American College of Surgeons, SESAP No. 13, December 2009, New Orleans, LA.
66. American College of Surgeons, La. Chapter American College of Surgeons, January 2010, New Orleans, LA.
67. Joint Meeting La. Chapter American College of Surgeons, Surgical Association of La., January 2012, New Orleans, LA.
68. Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, 48th Annual Visiting Professorship in Surgery, March 2012, New Orleans, LA.
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