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| ABA Newsletter |
Summer 2006 |
| Welcome to the New ABA President and Board Members |
President, David G. Greenhalgh, MD, FACS
Second Vice-President, William G. Cioffi Jr., MD, FACS
Treasurer, Nicole S. Gibran, MD, FACS
Program Vice Chair, Tina L. Palmieri, MD, FACS
At-Large Member, Mary Jo Baryza, PT, MS
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President, David G. Greenhalgh, MD, FACS
Chief of Burn Surgery, Shriners Hospitals for Children Northern California
Chief of the Burn Division, Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis
Dr. Greenhalgh arrived at the Northern California Hospital on February 1, 1997. He previously served as the Assistant Chief of Staff at the Shriners Hospitals for Children in Cincinnati, which is a hospital focusing solely on pediatric burns. Dr. Greenhalgh attended medical school in Syracuse, New York, and then went on to the University of Vermont, completing his general surgery residency in 1986. He spent a year doing research at the University of Vermont, and then another year doing research in wound healing and growth factors at the University of Washington in Seattle. The following year (1988-89), Dr. Greenhalgh did a clinical fellowship in burns under David Heimbach, MD. In the summer of 1989 he joined the staff at the Shriners Hospitals for Children in Cincinnati and also the University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor of Surgery, focusing on burn care and burn research. He was named Assistant Chief of Staff in 1992 and in 1995 was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati. He was named Chief of Burns at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Northern California in 1997 and was named Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of California, Davis, in 1999. He manages all aspects of burn care at Shriners Hospitals for Children Northern California and University of Davis Medical Center, and is Board Certified in general surgery with Added Qualifications in Critical Care. He performs research related to the response to injury, cell signaling, and the regulation of wound healing and scar formation. He is currently President of the American Burn Association. |
William G. Cioffi, MD, FACS
J. Murray Beardsley Professor and Chairman
Department of Surgery, Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island
Dr. William Cioffi became Professor and Chairman of the Brown Medical School Department of Surgery in 2001. He graduated from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington in 1981 and completed his residency in general surgery at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont in 1986. Before joining the Brown Medical School in 1994 as Chief of Trauma and Burns, he was the Chief of the Burn Study Branch at the Institute of Surgical Research at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Dr. Cioffi is the Surgeon-in-Chief of Rhode Island Hospital and Program Director for the Brown Department of Surgery. He serves on various hospital, university and national committees dedicated to improving patient care for critically ill surgical patients. He is former President of the Society of University Surgeons and the North American Burn Society and an active member of numerous national and international societies including The Halsted Society, American Surgical Association, Association for Academic Surgery, and the International Surgical Group. He is a Director of the American Board of Surgery and a member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons as appointed by the Society of University Surgeons. He has also served Chairman of the Surgical Critical Care Committee of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. Dr. Cioffi also serves on the editorial boards of such journals as Shock, Journal of Trauma, and Surgery and the American Journal of Surgery.
A board certified general surgeon with added qualifications in surgical critical care, Dr. Cioffi’s clinical expertise and research interests are in the areas of pancreatic, colorectal and trauma surgery. He has authored or co-authored more than 275 articles, book chapters and abstracts and continues to lecture nationally and internationally in his field.
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Nicole S. Gibran, MD, FACS
Director, University of Washington Burn Center, Harborview Medical Center
Professor, Department of Surgery, UW Medicine
Nicole S. Gibran, MD, FACS, received her bachelor’s degree at Brown University, and her medical degree at Boston University. After a residency in the Boston University Department of Surgery, she completed a clinical fellowship in the UW Burn Center with Drs. David Heimbach and Loren Engrav and an NIH Trauma Research Fellowship in the skin biology laboratory of Dr. Karen Holbrook. She joined the UW Department of Surgery as an Assistant Professor in 1994. Now a Professor in the UW Department of Surgery, Dr Gibran is an attending surgeon at Harborview Medical Center where she has been the Director of the UW Burn Center and the UW Burn Fellowship since 2002. In this role she has emphasized team building and mentoring residents and junior faculty with interest in burns.
In addition to fulfilling duties in patient care and teaching, Dr. Gibran has developed the UW Burn Center Research Laboratory with emphasis on aberrant healing processes including hypertrophic scar formation and chronic non-healing wounds seen with diabetes mellitus. She has over 75 publications in the area of wound repair, response to injury and burns. Her primary research focus on the role of nerve-derived mediators in responses to cutaneous injury has been funded by NIGMS and NIDDK since 1997. She has served on the Surgery Anesthesia and Trauma IRB study section in the NIH Center for Scientific Review since 2001 and was appointed as Chair in 2005.
Dr Gibran has been a member of the American Burn Association since 1991 serving on the Research, Program and Ethics committees and the Committee on the Organization and Delivery of Burn care. While Chair of the CODBC, her committee guided the ABA organizational policy on disaster planning for burn mass casualties. She is an ABLS instructor and is working to expand delivery of the ABLS course in the Pacific Northwest. She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Burn Care and Research, Burns, Surgery and Shock and is a faculty member for the ACS Surgical Study Guide, SESAP.
Dr Gibran gains most of her creativity and energy from keeping up with academic and extracurricular activities of her husband Dr Frank Isik and her two sons Alexander and Oliver; from these individuals she has learned her most valuable life lessons.
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Tina L. Palmieri, MD, FACS
Director, University of California Davis Regional Burn Center
Dr. Tina Palmieri graduated from Rockford College with a major in both biology and German. She subsequently attended Northwestern University Medical School. Her surgical education includes general surgery residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, followed by a burn and critical care fellowship at the University of Missouri Hospital and Clinic in Columbia, Missouri. She was stationed at Keesler Air Force Base Medical Center for four years, where she was director of the intensive care unit, assistant surgery residency program director, and a general surgeon. She is currently the director of the University of California Davis Regional Burn Center and the Assistant Chief of Burns at Shriners Hospitals for Children Northern California. Dr. Palmieri has been active in the American Burn Association. She has chaired multiple committees, including the Education Committee, ABLS Advisory Committee, and Research Committee, and is currently the Vice-Chair of the Program Committee. She is also on the ABA Burn Multicenter Trials Group Steering Committee. Her main research focus is in burn outcomes research, particularly in the effects of blood transfusion after burn injury, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal response after burn injury, the long-term psychosocial impact of burn injury in children, and the efficacy of continuous nebulized albuterol in inhalation injury. |
Mary Jo Baryza, MS, PT, PCS
Physical Therapist
Shriners Hospital for Children, Boston
Mary Jo Baryza, MS, PT, PCS is a Physical Therapist at Shriners Hospital for Children, Boston Burns Hospital. She has 36 years of experience in pediatric physical therapy and has been at Shriners for 13 years. Mary Jo received her undergraduate degree and Certificate in Physical Therapy from the University of Michigan in 1969. She moved to Boston in 1982 and subsequently earned a master’s degree in Physical Therapy from Boston University in 1989.
Mary Jo’s experience in pediatric physical therapy ranges from acute care to developmental disabilities to research. She has practiced in a variety of settings including community hospitals, large teaching hospitals, school systems, early intervention programs and home care. Her first love is pediatrics but research is also near and dear to her heart. She is presently very active in designing a project to study outcomes of children with severe hand burns.
Mary Jo is head of the Therapeutic Services Department which includes Occupational, Physical, Recreation, Child Life and Music Therapy as well as the School Teachers and the Make-up Clinic. The department provides many services to the children to help them heal and to provide them with the skills and confidence they need to be successful as they leave the hospital. She is very proud of the skill level of the staff and the team spirit they display at every opportunity.
Mary Jo has been married for 37 years and counts this among her greatest achievements. She has three adult children and one granddaughter. In addition to enjoying her empty nest she enjoys reading, sewing, gardening, kayaking, skiing and aerobics classes. |
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