In memory of Dr David Feliciano
Dr David Feliciano was born and raised in New York City before his family later moved to New Jersey. Dr Feliciano began his start into medicine as a young child as he watched his father, who was a community surgeon. In high school, he worked as an operating room technician and received his undergraduate degree and medical school training at Georgetown University. He then went on to complete his internship and general surgery residency at the Mayo Clinic, followed later by a trauma fellowship with Drs Charlie Lucas and Anna Ledgerwood at the Detroit Receiving Hospital, and a 6-month vascular fellowship at Baylor University. He began his career at Ben Taub County Hospital in Houston and then went to the University of Rochester. Dr Feliciano became the Surgeon-in-Chief at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, and then Chief of Surgery at the University of Indiana. In 2017, he joined the faculty at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center. I first met David in the late 1980s when I hea