Category: News

On Saturday, December 14, 2013, members of the Garner Fire Department brought Santa and his bag of gifts to visit the patients of the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center. Patients, families and staff really felt the holiday cheer from Santa and his merry band of fire service elves. Garner has...

Charlene Pell, Member, North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center Advisory Board, was awarded the first annual Woman of Will Award on Thursday, December 12th, for her work in the Lake Norman community. More than 50 women were nominated, 10 finalists selected, and the recipient announced at a luncheon held Thursday. Charlene’s...

Two original research articles have been published by the Burn Center Lab. First, it was just announced that the PhD Doctoral Thesis work of Crystal Neely, under the direction of Dr. Bruce Cairns and Dr. Rob Maile, has just been accepted for publication with PLoS ONE. PLoS ONE is a...

Congratulations to Ernest Grant, RN, MSN,FAAN, for being nominated for 2nd Vice President of the American Burn Association. “This is quite an honor for Ernie, The North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center, and the American Burn Association. With Ernie’s incredible professionalism and depth of knowledge, I know he will help progress...

Dana Walsh, doctoral candidate in Curriculum in Toxicology working with Dr. Bruce Cairns and Dr. Samuel Jones, received first place in the student paper competition at the Southern Region Burn Conference held in Tampa, Florida, November 15-17, 2013. Her paper was entitled: Detection of Lung Microbiota by Next Generation Sequencing...

Grace Schmits, RN, received second place for her non-physician paper competition at the Southern Region Burn Conference held in Tampa, Florida, November 15-17, 2013, entitled: “OZ: Experience with a Burn Nursing Retreat”. Congratulations Grace!

On Thursday, October 24, 2013 at the 4th Quarter North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center Advisory Board Meeting, North Carolina’s electric cooperatives and CoBank represented by Nelle Hotchkiss, Dale Lambert, and Lindsey Listrom, presented a check for $10,000 to Dr. Bruce Cairns, director of the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center, Anita...

Rayna Gorisek, RN and Minh Nguyen, RN received first place in a fierce competition across the region of 40 for their poster, “Utilization of Videos for Burn Wound Care Education” at the Southern Region Burn Conference held November 15 – 17, 2013 in Tampa, Florida. It was so well received...

The first annual Fireman’s Challenge for the Gamma Phi chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha was an unprecedented success. The week long philanthropy event created a strong competition between eight sororities on the campus of Wake Forest University, ending in Kappa Kappa Gamma taking home the first place trophy. Thanks in...

Bruce A. Cairns, MD and Anita M. Navarro, M.Ed were guest authors for AM Rounds (Journal of the AAMC) November 11, 2013 blog. Click here for full blog.