New faculty join UMMC academic ranks
Published on Monday, January 6, 2025
Medical Center leadership is proud to announce the following additions to its faculty and leadership staff.
Dr. Robert K. Anderson
Dr. Robert K. Anderson, recently in private practice as an internal medicine physician with Internal Medicine Specialists in Flowood, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor of medicine-hospital medicine in the School of Medicine.
Anderson graduated from the UMMC School of Medicine in 2004 and completed his residency in internal medicine at the Medical Center in 2007.
His scope of practice in comprehensive care has included inpatient and outpatient settings.
For 15 years, he was on the staff of St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson. In 2023, he became a principal partner at Internal Medicine Specialists.
Board-certified in internal medicine, Anderson is a member of the America College of Physicians, the American Society of Hypertension and the Mississippi State Medical Association.
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Dr. Juan C. Duchesne
Dr. Juan C. Duchesne, the former William Henderson Endowment Chair of Surgery and professor of trauma at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, has joined the Medical Center faculty as division chief, Department of Surgery, in the School of Medicine.
Duchesne served as division chief of trauma, critical care and acute care surgery at the Norman E. McSwain Jr. Level I Trauma Center University Medical Center in New Orleans. He was medical director of inpatient emergency medicine and trauma, and TICU medical director as well.
In 1999, he received his medical degree from Ponce School of Medicine in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He went on to complete his general surgery residency and fellowship training at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans.
Following his fellowship training, he served for one year as assistant professor of surgery/trauma/critical care at UMMC, where he received the Outstanding Clinical Research Achievement Award. After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, in 2005, Duchesne returned there to assist in the rebuilding of Tulane Trauma. During his stay at Tulane, he developed the first Level II ACS verified center on the Northshore in Hammond, Louisiana.
Afterwards, he dedicated most of his time to trauma clinical and basic science research at the Tulane School of Medicine. During this time, he pioneered implementation of whole blood use at Norman McSwain Trauma Center and Selective Prehospital Advance Resuscitative Care (SPARC) in New Orleans EMS.
Duchesne has earned numerous awards and honors throughout his career, including the Southern Surgical Shipley Award and Western Trauma Thomas Scalea Award for new fellow best research paper. He serves as editor on the editorial board of a variety of professional journals and has served as chair of the Committee of Trauma for the Louisiana chapter of the American College of Surgeons and chair of critical care for the Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency (LOPA).
Duchesne, who has presented his research at national and international conferences, has more than 250 publications and more than 100 national and international guest speaker invitations to his credit.
He is a member of multiple scientific organizations, including the Panamerican Trauma Society, American College of Surgeons, International Association for Trauma Surgery and Intensive Care, American Association of Surgical Trauma, Southern Surgical Association, Western Trauma Association and others.
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Dr. William Bradford Jenkins
Dr. William Bradford Jenkins, a general dentist and owner of Jenkins Dental Care in Indianola, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor of comprehensive general dentistry in the School of Dentistry.
At Delta State University in Cleveland, Jenkins earned a Masters in Combined Science degree before graduating in 2002 from the UMMC School of Dentistry with his Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD). He has been in private practice in Indianola for more than 20 years, and has also served the dental profession in various district- and state-level elected positions, including president with the Mississippi Dental Association.
For three years, beginning in 2003, he also served as an adjunct professor in the Dental Hygiene Program at Mississippi Delta Community College in Moorhead.
Jenkins is also serving on the advisory board for the Dental Lifeline Network’s Donated Dental Services in Mississippi, which provides comprehensive dental care to adult residents who are elderly, disabled or medically fragile.