Dr. Bruce Cairns, Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Surgery, invited Chancellor Holden Thorp to present Surgery Research Grand Rounds on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Chancellor Thorp presented a well attended presentation entitled “Rational Re-Design of Cytochrome P450 Antagonists: Safer Drugs for Prostate Cancer and Anti-Fungal Indications”. A reception was held following the … Read more
Dr. Amal Khoury and Dr. Anthony Charles received $2k funding of their TraCS application titled “Immune Modulation by Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)”. Congratulations!
On Friday, February 22, 2013 Crystal J. Neely defended her thesis and received her PhD from the Department of Surgery North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center and the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. This was the first PhD student in the area of burn research. Dr. Neely then presented a portion of her thesis at Surgery … Read more
On Monday, February 18, 2013 the Mecklenburg Chapter of the Fire Fighter’s Burned Children’s Fund came to Chapel Hill to tour the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center. During the visit they presented the Burn Center with supplies for the Family Room and for patients in the unit. They are dedicated supporters of all patients in … Read more
Ernest Grant, RN has been reappointed Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing. Adjunct faculty members are extremely important to the University of North Carolina for their work with faculty and students. Congratulations on your reappointment!
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 has made a measurable impact … Read more
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 Advisory Board in January 2013. … Read more
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, in Castle Connolly’s estimation, is … Read more
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 Carolina.
