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Ernest Grant, RN was awarded the B.T. Fowler Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual North Carolina Fire and Life Safety Education Conference held in Asheville, North Carolina, February 10 – 13, 2013. This award is given in honor of Mr. B.T. Fowler whose dedication to fire and life safety education...

North Carolina’s electric cooperatives partner with several suppliers, associates, and vendors each year to host a fundraising golf tournament benefiting the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center at UNC Hospitals. In 2012, the co-ops raised a record breaking $117,318 and a check in that amount was presented to the Burn Center...

December 18, 2012 — US News & World Report, in collaboration with Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., released its 2012 list of the nation’s top physicians. Among those included are the following faculty members in the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center. Per US News: the ♦ icon “denotes that a doctor,...

October 11, 2012 -- Bruce Cairns, MD, has been named the Medical Director for the Respiratory Care Department.

Randy D. Kearns DHA, Bruce A. Cairns MD, and James R. Gusler, of the UNC School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, received a $599,920 grant from the United States Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide burn prevention and burn care educational programs in North and South...

Rob Maile, PhD and June Brickey PhD of the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center and Departments of Surgery, and Microbiology and Immunology have received a $75,000 grant from the NIH-administered Radiation Countermeasures Center of Research Excellence (RadCCORE) to study “Immunomodulation of immature monocytes after combined burn-radiation injury”. This is a...

Bruce A. Cairns, MD and Randy D. Kearns, DHA of the UNC Division of Surgery, have received a $100,000 grant from the North Carolina Office of Emergency Medical Services (through the US DHHS/ASPR Hospital Preparedness Programs) for their work regarding Burn Surge Preparedness for North Carolina and the Southeast US....

Ernest Grant, RN, MSN, Director of Burn Prevention and Community Outreach at the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center, traveled to South Africa in August 2009 to conduct a Train-the-Trainer workshop on the South African version of the Learn-Not-To Burn Preschool program. Conducted in concert with the National Fire Protection Association...