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Matthew Ryan, Emilio Figueroa, and Emeraghi David from the Carolina Covenant attended the February 20, 2014, meeting of the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center Advisory Board to give an update on their fundraiser to benefit the Burn Center. The Carolina Covenant is sponsoring a 5K Road Race on Saturday, April...

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.

    C. Scott Hultman, MD, principal investigator, and Bruce A. Cairns, MD, co-principal investigator, received the Center for Innovation’s 2014 Innovation Pilot Award for his “SMART Assessment of Novel Laser Therapies for the Management of Hypertrophic Burn Scars”.  

Samuel Jones, MD, FACS, Assistant Professor of Surgery with the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center featured in this week’s Vital Signs as a part of the ACCLAIM Program.

Brandon Linz, a PhD student in Microbiology and Immunology working with mentor Bruce Cairns, MD and Robert Maile, PhD has been appointed as a predoctoral trainee to the Basic Immune Mechanisms Training Grant. Immunology faculty appoint graduate students to this very distinguished and competitive grant which provides a stipend and...

Adela Mann, a sophomore in high school and burn center volunteer wrote an article in support of Burn Awareness Week, February 2 – 8, 2014. It was published in the Chapel Hill News. Visit the link below to read the article. Comments welcome. Adela’s story

February 2-8 is Burn Awareness Week 2014. This year’s theme is scalds. For more information contact Ernest Grant, RN, MSN, FAAN, the Center’s outreach coordinator, at 919-966-2381 or egrant@unch.unc.edu. Other experts are also available for interviews by contacting Lynn West, lmwest@med.unc.edu, 919-966-8159. 10 Tips to Avoid Scalds Scalds, common in...

On, Wednesday, January 1, 2014, Randy Kearns, DHA, MSA, CEM was promoted from Clinical Instructor in the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center to Clinical Assistant Professor. Congratulations Randy.

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