Since his early days as a Jaycee, when he sold jam to raise money for the still-young North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center, Ernest Grant, PhD, RN,FAAN, has been eager to support his community. Today he serves as the coordinator for the Burn Center’s internationally recognized Burn Prevention Program and was recently reelected as Vice President of the American Nurses Association. We sat down with Dr. Grant to learn more about what brought him to UNC, why advocacy is so important to burn care and what it means to be a leader.

Chancellor Carol L. Folt (right) receives the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center 12th Person Award from Phil Ford on July 27. From the moment she first learned about the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center three years ago, Chancellor Carol L. Folt has been an avid backer of the center and its mission of compassionately treating severe burn … Read more

Wilmington man’s eye loss highlights risk of e-cigarette explosions.

Congratulations Laquanda Knowlin, T32 Trauma Fellow for your 2nd place award.

Dr. Bruce Cairns, medical director of the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center received a call from Congressman David E. Price’s office on Wednesday, August 18, 2016 with the news that the Burn Center was being awarded a FEMA Grant to educate lower-income North Carolinians about fire safety and train first responders in burn treatment.

Each year, over 450,000 burn injuries occur in the United States that are serious enough to require medical treatment. Between 2007 and 2013, the proportion of burn center admissions due to scald burns increased from 29.8% to 33.7%. Join us in the fight to prevent severe burn and scald injuries!

Dr. Bruce A. Cairns, Director of the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center and John Stackhouse Distinguished Professor of Surgery, was selected to serve as a member of the Surgery, Anesthesiology and Trauma Study Section, Center for Scientific Review for the term beginning immediately and ending June 30, 2021.

A poster presented by Dr. Bruce Cairns on Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at the American Burn Association annual national meeting was awarded 2nd Place Overall in Poster Presentations today, April 24, 2015.

This week is the annual national meeting of the American Burn Association in Chicago, Illinois. The North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center is well represented by physicians, nurses, therapists, and other staff members.

Kinston plant explosion changes lives of father, son.