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Burns, Critical Care and Trauma

Our Team

For appointments and information, please call (212) 746-5410

Roger W. Yurt, MD

• Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery
  Johnson and Johnson Distinguished Professor of Surgery
  Weill Cornell Medical College
• Chief, Burns, Critical Care and Trauma
  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

Philip S. Barie, MD, MBA, FCCM, FACS

• Professor of Surgery; Professor of Public Health
  Weill Cornell Medical College
• Attending Surgeon
  NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Phone: (212) 746-5401

Fax: (212) 746-6995

E-mail: pbarie@med.cornell.edu

Specialties: Trauma, general surgery, high-risk surgery of the elderly, gastrointestinal surgery, surgical critical care, surgical infections, and hernia repair

Physician Profile: More about Philip S. Barie, 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

Soumitra R. Eachempati, MD, FACS

• Professor of Surgery
  Professor of Public Health
  Weill Cornell Medical College
• Attending Surgeon
  Director, Surgical Intensive Care Unit
  Director, Trauma Service
  NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Phone: (212) 746-5312

Fax: (212) 746-0982

E-mail: sre2003@med.cornell.edu

Specialties: Trauma surgery, colon surgery, gallbladder surgery, gallstones, gastrointestinal surgery, general surgery, hernia surgery, laparoscopic gastrointestinal surgery, laparoscopic surgery, and pancreatic disease

Physician Profile: More about Soumitra R. Eachempati, MD

James Gallagher, MD, MD

• Assistant Professor of Surgery
• Weill Cornell Medical College
Assistant Attending Surgeon
• NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Phone: (212) 746-7913

Fax: (212) 746-8991

E-mail: jag9027@med.cornell.edu

Specialties: Wound Healing, Trauma, Pediatric Burn Care

Physician Profile: More about James Gallagher, MD

Jian Shou, MD

• Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery
  Weill Cornell Medical College
• Associate Attending Surgeon
  NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Phone: (212) 746-5446

Fax: (212) 746-7291

E-mail: jis2007@med.cornell.edu

Specialties: General surgery, surgical critical care, trauma

Physician Profile: More about Jian Shou, MD

See Dr. Shou's research publications
at the National Library of Medicine.