Burn Surgery
Research Highlights
Our Burn Center staff pursue a number of clinical wound healing research projects under the aegis of the New York Firefighters Wound Healing Research Program. In addition, work is underway in the following areas:
- New York Firefighters Wound Repair and Skin Regeneration Laboratory, which focuses on basic and clinical aspects of burn injury and epidermal biology, including biological skin substitutes
- Burn Rehabilitation Research Team, which conducts studies on such topics as managing burn wound pruritus (itching), hydrotherapy, splinting and aquatic therapy
- Post traumatic stress disorder in adult burn patients
- Relationship of infection susceptibility to extent of injury
- Disaster planning for burn injury
Contact
- Burn Surgery
- (212) 746-5410
