Christopher DuCoin, MD, MPH, FACS, is a board-certified general surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the University of South Florida, where he serves as Vice Chair of Surgery and Division Chief of GI & General Surgery. At Tampa General Hospital he is Director of the Digestive Diseases Institute. His clinical practice focuses on complex esophageal and gastric disease—including achalasia, paraesophageal hernias, and esophageal cancer—with an emphasis on minimally invasive and technology-driven care such as robotic surgery. Dr. DuCoin is deeply committed to surgical education, serving as Fellowship Director and previously as Clerkship Director and Associate Program Director, and he founded the Surgery Outcomes Research Team (SORT) at USF, mentoring dozens of medical students in outcomes and access-to-care research. He has authored over 130 peer-reviewed publications and more than 20 book chapters and is an invited national and international speaker. Nationally, he serves as Past President of the Young Fellows Association of the American College of Surgeons, a Board Member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons and Chair of the Research Committee, and Past President of the Florida Chapter of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. Outside of medicine, he is devoted to his wife Mattie and their three children, and often says he is a husband first, a father second, and a surgeon third.
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