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John F. Plourde, Jr. was born in Miami on September 2, 1963. He graduated High School from Lake Weir H.S. in 1981. He enrolled an Central Florida Community College and was so accepted in the Radiaoisotope Health Program. He tranferred to the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida in 1984, where he studied geophysics and natural sciences. Then in 1985 he successfully gained admissions in the neuroelectrodiagnostic program at the VA Hospital & Shands Medical Center, in Gainsville, Florida and subsequently graduating in the summer of 1986. John moved to Sarasote florida in the fall of 1986 and was employed at the Centre' for Neurologic Evaluation. He worked primarily in neurodiagnostics performing EEG, evoked potentials and starting a sleep study center. He continued to work in neurodiagnostics in South Florida at Associates in Neurology, before moving to Nashville Tn. in 1990. He took a position at the Epilepsy Surgical Center at Vanderbilt Medical Center, performing intraoperative electrocorticography and long term epilepsy surgery monitoring. He later entered the Physician Assistant program at Trevecca Nazerine University graduating at the top of his class in 1993. John later compl