Juan C. Puyana, MD

  • Professor of Surgery, Critical Care Medicine, and Clinical Translational Science
  • Director for Global Health-Surgery, University of Pittsburgh

    Education & Training

  • MD, Javeriana University, Bogota, Colombia
  • General Surgery Residency, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  • Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, School of Medicine, SUNY
  • Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, Yale University School of Medicine
Awards
Master Surgeon University of Pittsburgh Lectureship, 2016
Pitt Innovator Award, 2007, 2009
The Independent Insurance Agents of Pittsburgh, Outstanding Public Service (The "Big I Award”), 2003
Partners Healthcare System Excellence Award, Clinical CIMIT, 1999
Society of Critical Care Medicine, Surgery Specialty Award, 1994
Representative Publications

Dr. Puyana's publications can be reviewed through PubMed.

Research Grants

Current

  • PI: NIH NHLBI: BLOODSAFE – Pathways of Innovation in Blood Transfusion Systems in Kenya (PITS Kenya). Grant Number 1UG3HL151596-01

  • PI: NIH Fogarty International Center, Global Noncommunicable Diseases and Injury Across the Lifespan Exploratory Research: Injury Support Initiative for Guatemala Trauma (INSIGHT) grant # R21 TW011151-01, 2018-2020

Previous

  • PI: NIH Fogarty International Center, Global Health Research and Research Training eCapacity Initiative, grant# 1R25TW009714-01, 2014 - 2017
  • PI: NIH Fogarty International Center: Capacity Building for Decompressive Craniotomy in Colombia, grant# R21 TW009332-01A1, 2012 -2014
  • PI: NIH Fogarty International Center Informatics in Global Health, grant# D43 TW008443-01: Enhancing Research Informatics Capacity for Health Information in Colombia (ENRICH), 2009 – 2014
  • PI: NIH Fogarty International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Research Training Program, grant# D43 TW008443-03: Trauma and Injury Excellence in Education on Research (TrainEER Program), 2006 - 2011
  • PI: Metabolic & Inflammatory Systems in Irreversible Shock, NHLBI grant# R01 HL076157-01, 2004 - 2008
  • Co-investigator: Clinical Centers for the Clinical Network for the Treatment of Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome, NHLBI grant# N01-HR-15162, 2003-2005