Burn Surgery
Our Team
Roger W. Yurt, MD
- Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery
Johnson and Johnson Distinguished Professor of Surgery
Weill Cornell Medical College
- Chief, Burn Surgery
Director, William Randolph Hearst Burn Center
Attending Surgeon
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center
- Phone: (212) 746-5410
- Fax: (212) 746-8991
- E-mail: ryurt@med.cornell.edu
- Specialties: Burns and wound healing
- Physician Profile: More about Roger W. Yurt, MD
Palmer Q. Bessey, MD
- Professor of Surgery
Weill Cornell Medical College
- Associate Director, William Randolph Hearst Burn Center
Attending Surgeon
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center
- Phone: (212) 746-0242
- Fax: (212) 746-5114
- E-mail: pqb2001@med.cornell.edu
- Specialties: Burns, critical care medicine, nutrition, trauma and wound healing
- Physician Profile: More about Palmer Q. Bessey, MD
Joseph R. Turkowski, MD
- Assistant Professor of Surgery
Weill Cornell Medical College
- Assistant Attending Surgeon
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center
- Phone: (212) 746-5044
- E-mail: jot9011@med.cornell.edu
- Specialties: Burns, trauma and wound healing
- Physician Profile: More about Joseph R. Turkowski, MD
