2007-2008 ABA President
Richard J. Kagan, MD, FACS
Shriners Hospitals for Children, Cincinnati, Ohio
Richard J. Kagan, MD, FACS, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He obtained a bachelors degree in chemistry from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and went on to earn his medical degree from St. Louis University. Dr. Kagan completed his residency training in general surgery at the University of Illinois Hospitals in 1979, and shortly thereafter joined the staff at Cook County Hospital as an attending surgeon in the burn unit. He also was a general surgeon at Cook County and the University of Illinois Hospital; and became Director of the Cook County Hospital Skin Bank in 1982. In 1986, Dr. Kagan was the recipient of the American Burn Association’s Traveling Fellowship Award, which created an opportunity for him to visit the Shriners and University Hospitals in Cincinnati. Former ABA President Dr. Glenn Warden was director of both units at that time, and Dr. Wes Alexander, also a former ABA President, was the Director of Research at Shriners. These two individuals were influential in Kagan’s decision to join the burn team in Cincinnati. He was named Associate Director of the University Hospital Burn Center in 1988 and became Director in 1993. Dr. Kagan was instrumental in the growth of the regional skin and tissue bank and became its Medical Director in 1991. In 2000, he was appointed Assistant Chief of Staff of the Shriners Hospital, and later succeeded Dr. Warden as the Chief of Staff of the Shriners Hospital and Director of the Burn Division at the University of Cincinnati in 2004. Kagan has also been very active in the American Association of Tissue Banks and was President of that organization from 1999-2001. Dr. Kagan has been an active member of the American Burn Association. He has been a member of the Burn Registry Committee, the Skin Substitutes Task Force, the Committee on Organization and Delivery of Burn Care, Program Committee, and Education Committee. He has chaired the Burn Center Directors Special Interest Group, the Ad Hoc Committee that developed the ABA Burn Center Verification program, the Committee on Organization & Delivery of Burn Care, and the Government Affairs Committee. Dr. Kagan currently serves as Chair of the ABA TRACS Users Committee, is the ABA representative to the AMA CPT Advisory Committee and the RUC Advisory Committee, and has been the driving force in the development of the ABA Coding Primer, improvements in burn center and burn physician reimbursement. In 2007, Dr. Kagan became the 40th President of the American Burn Association. He is a Professor of Surgery at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and lives in Cincinnati with his wife Lisa and their son Alec. |
President Elect - G. Patrick Kealey, MD, FACS
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa
First Vice President - Robert L. Sheridan, MD, FACS
Shriners Hospital for Children and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Second Vice President - William G. Cioffi Jr., MD, FACS
Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
Secretary - Sidney F. Miller, MD, FACS
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Treasurer - Nicole S. Gibran, MD, FACS
Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
Program Chair - Tina L. Palmieri, MD, FACS
Shriners Hospital for Children and University of California Davis, Sacramento, California
At-Large Members
Barry K. Bennett, LCSW
Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois
Ronald J. Siarnicki, Firefighter
National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, Crofton, Maryland
Mary Jo Baryza, PT, MS, PCS
Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, Massachusetts
Kathy G. Supple, MSN, CCRN
Loyola University Medical Center,
Maywood, Illinois
Past Presidents
David G. Greenhalgh, MD, FACS
Shriners Hospitals for Children and University of California Davis, Sacramento, California
Gary F. Purdue, MD, FACS
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Richard L. Gamelli, MD, FACS
Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois |
