American Burn Association Annual Meeting-2014

Members of the Burn Team presented their research and showcased their expertise at the 45th Annual Meeting of the American Burn Association from April 23-26 at the Palm Springs Convention Center in Palm Springs, CA:

Poster presentations at the meeting included (MWHC/MHRI Burn Team personnel in bold, first author presented):

*NJ Prindeze BS, P Fathi BS, TE Travis MD, MJ Mino MD, NA Mauskar MD, LT Moffatt PhD, JW Shupp MD. Active Dynamic Thermography for Burn Wound Depth Detection.

RT Ortiz MS, DY Jo BS, PR Randad BS, NJ Prindeze BS, LT Moffatt PhD, MH Jordan MD FACS, JW Shupp MD. Transcriptomic Perturbations in the Local Innate Immune Response Caused by Staphylococcus Aureus Infected Burn Wounds.

The following original scientific papers were given as podium presentations in the correlative sessions at the meeting (MWHC/MHRI Burn Team personnel in bold, first author presented):

JW Shupp MD, NA Mauskar MD, S Sood PhD, MS Burnett PhD, LT Moffatt PhD, P Fidler MD, MJ Mino MD, TE Travis MD, MH Jordan MD, SE Epstein MD. Secreted Products of Stem Cells Enhance the Rate and Completeness of Donor Site Healing.

*NJ Prindeze BS, T Nguyen MS, DY Jo BS, PR Randad BS, LT Moffatt PhD, JC Ramella-Roman PhD, JC Jeng MD FACS, JW Shupp MD. Neurovascular Cell Death Is Present Extremely Proximal to Electrical Injury Contact Sites.

TE Travis MD, MJ Mino MD, LT Moffatt PhD, NA Mauskar MD, P Ghassemi PhD, JC Ramella-Roman PhD, MH Jordan MD FACS, JW Shupp MD. Biphasic Presence of Fibrocytes in a Porcine Hypertrophic Scar Model.

TE Travis MD, MJ Mino MD, NA Mauskar MD, LT Moffatt PhD, P Fidler MD, MH Jordan MD FACS, JW Shupp MD. Commercially Available Topical PDGF as a Novel Agent to Accelerate Burn-Related Wound Healing.

TE Travis MD, MJ Mino MD, NA Mauskar MD, DY Jo BS, P Ghassemi PhD, LT Moffatt PhD, MH Jordan MD FACS, JC Ramella-Roman PhD, JW Shupp MD. A Novel and Reproducible Porcine Scar Model for Testing the Effects of Pressure Therapy While Correlating Non-invasive Imaging Metrics to Molecular and Histological Changes.

JW Shupp MD, RT Ortiz MS, LT Moffatt PhD, DY Jo BS, PR Randad BS, BM Amundsen MD, NJ Prindeze BS, MH Jordan MD FACS. In Vivo Comparison of the Effectiveness of a Glycylcycline and a Lincosamide Antibiotic in Reducing MRSA Pathogenicity in Burn Wounds.

*Nick Prindeze won the Lindberg Award for best scientific paper by a non-physician for his paper submission, Neurovascular Cell Death Is Present Extremely Proximal to Electrical Injury Contact Sites at the ABA Annual Meeting.

*Nick Prindeze won “Best Overall Poster” at the ABA Annual Meeting for his poster presentation entitled Active Dynamic Thermography for Burn Wound Depth Detection.