Author: Michael C. Bond

Peter De Blieux, MD, FACEP. Dr. De Blieux is a professor of clinical medicine and an attending physician in emergency medicine and the medical intensive care unit of Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) Charity Hospital, where has served for 25 years. He also is the Chief Medical Officer and Director of Quality at University Medical Center and a clinical professor of surgery at Tulane University Medical School, both in New Orleans. He is the former Program Director of the LSUHSC Charity Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency and former Director of Resident and Faculty Development-positions he held for a decade each. Dr. De Blieux earned his medical degree from LSUHSC, where he later completed an internship in internal medicine. He has remained at his alma mater, where he completed an emergency medicine residency followed by a pulmonary critical care fellowship.