2023 WHS Annual Meeting

Members of the Burn Research Team presented their work at the 2023 Wound Healing Society Annual Meeting at the National Harbor in DC last week.

Dr. Ted Kelly, our surgical research fellow, presented his work at the Young Investigator Competition as a podium presentation for his work titled, "Endothelial Dysfunction in Areas of Unburned Skin in a Burn Injury Model: Implications for Autologous Skin Grafting". His co authors are: Bonnie C. Carney, PhD; Eriks Ziedens, BS; Lauren T. Moffatt, PhD; Jeffrey W. Shupp, MD

Mr. Kabir Al-Tariq, a rising 3rd year Georgetown Medical Student, presented his work as a podium presentation titled, "Fractional Ablative CO2 Laser Revision Results in Measurable Changes to Collagen in Hypertrophic Scars". Authors: Kabir Al-Tariq, MS, Lesle Jimenez, MS, Eriks Ziedins, BS, Cameron D’Orio, BS, Brooke Pierson, MS, Lauren T. Moffatt, PhD, Jeffrey W. Shupp, MD, Taryn E. Travis, MD, Bonnie C. Carney, PhD

Ms. Monica Collins, a rising 3rd year Georgetown Medical Student, presented her work as a podium presentation titled, "Scar Patterning After Addition of Autologous Skin Cell Suspensions to Meshed Autografting in a Porcine Burn Model" Authors: Monica L. Collins, BS, Dillon Williams, BS, Mary A. Oliver, BS, Lauren T. Moffatt, PhD1,3,4, Jeffrey W. Shupp, MD, Taryn E. Travis, MD, Bonnie C. Carney, PhD

Ms. Brooke Pierson, one of our research associates, presented her work as a podium presentation titled, "A Healing Assessment of Full Thickness Burns Compared to Excisional Wounds After Meshed Split-Thickness Skin Grafting". Co-Authors: Brooke Pierson, MS, Mary A. Oliver, BS, Dillion Williams, MS, Monica Collins, BS, Lauren T. Moffatt, PhD, Taryn E. Travis, MD, Jeffrey W. Shupp, MD, Bonnie C. Carney, PhD

Dr. Bonnie Carney presented her work as an oral quick shot and poster titled, "Cutaneous wounds occurring after exposure to spaceflight do not exhibit impacts to re-epithelialization: analyses of mice returned from the international space station". Authors: Bonnie Carney, PhD, Eriks Ziedins, BS, Allison Hoke, MS, Stephen Butler, BS, Lauren T. Moffatt, PhD, Abdulnaser Alkhalil, PhD, Aarti Gautam, PhD, Nabarun Chakraborty, MS, MBA, Carolynn Conley, ThD, JD, James Mcleroy, MS, Rasha Hammamieh, PhD, Jeffrey W. Shupp, MD

Dr. Shawn Tejiram presented his work as a poster titled, "Experience and Use of the Bioengineered Dermal Skin Substitute TransCyte® at a Single Institution Burn Center". Authors: Shawn Tejiram, MD , Taryn E. Travis, MD, Jeffrey W. Shupp, MD