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Congratulations Burn Center Lab

December 6, 2013
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...

Ernest Grant, RN, MSN, FAAN Nominated

November 27, 2013
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...

Student Awards at Southern Region Burn Conference

November 25, 2013
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 Receives Second Place for Presentation

November 25, 2013
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!

North Carolina’s Touchstone Energy Cooperatives Donation

November 18, 2013
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...

And First Place Goes To Rayna Gorisek, RN and Minh Nguyen, RN

November 18, 2013
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...

First Annual Fireman’s Challenge Raises Funds for Burn Center

November 14, 2013
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...

Dr. Bruce A. Cairns Guest Author – AM Rounds

November 12, 2013
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.

“Clean In, Clean Out” Unit of the Week – BICU

October 11, 2013
Congratulations to the employees of the BICU for being selected “Unit of the Week” in the “Clean In, Clean Out Campaign” at ºÚÁÏÍø Hospitals. Click here for additional information.

Family Camp Service Project 2013

October 8, 2013
The Family Camp Service Project of 2013 was a huge success. This year our group decided to collect 500 food items for TABLE. Once again, the Burn Team and our survivor families were outstanding. Not only did we reach our goal of 500 food items but we far surpassed the...