ROBERT H. DEMLING M.D., Director, Burn Center

is a Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Burn-Trauma Center at Brigham Women's Hospital. He is a past president of the American Burn Association. He has researched and published extensively in the field of the inflammatory and metabolic response from burn injury and on the post burn wound healing process.

Affiliations and Profiles
Trauma and Burn Center [Clinical Faculty]
Department of Surgery [Clinical Faculty]

DENNIS P. ORGILL, M.D., Ph.D.  Associate Chief, Plastic Surgery

is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Associate Director of the Burn Unit at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is Board Certified in both Surgery and Plastic Surgery. He specializes in Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Surgical Care of Burn Patience. His major research interest is in the field of Tissue Engineering.

Affiliations and Profiles
Plastic Surgery [Clinical Faculty]
Department of Surgery [Clinical Faculty]

ROBERT SHERIDAN, M.D. Chief of Burn Surgery at the Shriners Burns Hospital

Dr. Robert Sheridan is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and attending surgeon in trauma and adult burns at the Massachusetts General Hospital.  His principal research interests are clinical and include alternative wound closures, techniques of wound excision, critical care technologies and the metabolic response to illness.

PHONE: 617-726-5633

FAX: 617-367-8936

INTERNET ADDRESS: sheridan.robert@mgh.harvard.edu

OFFICE ADDRESS: Burn and Trauma Services, Bigelow 1302, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114

CLINICAL BACKGROUND:

M.D.: Boston University 1979

RESIDENCY: Walter Reed 1986

FELLOWSHIP: Institute of Surgical Research 1990

BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: Surgery, Surgical Critical Care

CLINICAL INTERESTS: Pediatric burns, burn reconstruction and rehabilitation, trauma

AFFILIATIONS: Division of Burns and Trauma, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Chief of Staff, Shriners Burns Hospital.

POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTERESTS:

- A research grant from Knoll pharmaceuticals in the past.
- Equipment for research projects from Sharplan Lasers and Candela Lasers.
- A research grant from Integra Life Sciences.

LESLIE DESANTI, R.N., is a burn nurse specialist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston with 10 years of experience managing patients and teaching burn care. She is also Clinical Coordinator for the largest Burn Rehabilitation Program in New England and is a member of the American Burn Association Rehabilitation Committee. She has multiple publications in the field of burn care and wound healing

JAMES JACOBITZ, M.D., is a Clinical Professor of Dermatological Surgery at Univ. of Calif. San Francisco. He has 30 years of experience in Dermatological Surgery, he also is boarded in Pathology.