July 31, 2008 - Injury Free Coalition for Kids of Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center welcomes Bradley J. Phillips, M.D., to the Department of Surgery as director of pediatric burn surgery and director of the burn fellowship program.
Previously director of the University of New Mexico burn program, Dr. Phillips received his M.D. from the College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University. He completed a burn fellowship at Shriners Hospital for Children at the University of Texas Medical Branch and a trauma-ICU fellowship at Boston Medical Center.
Dr. Phillips is a member of the American College of Surgeons and the American Burn Association. He is the editor of several medical journals, such as the Journal of Burns & Wounds, has been published in books such as Adult Cardiac Surgery and Heart Failure & Transplantation, and is the editor of a new textbook entitled Pediatric Burns.
The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center is designated Maryland’s regional pediatric burn center by the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS). Under this designation, Hopkins Children’s cares for all burn victims under the age of 15 in the State of Maryland and surrounding communities.
The Hopkins Children’s burn team includes specialists from disciplines including critical care and anesthesiology, general surgery, reconstructive and plastic surgery, pediatric surgery, pain management, rehabilitation, infectious diseases, psychology, psychiatry, nursing, child life, social work and injury prevention.
The pediatric burn unit at Hopkins Children’s is part of the Johns Hopkins Burn Center which also includes an adult burn unit at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
Burn cases that come through Hopkins Children’s range from minor cases to those requiring multiple reconstructive surgeries and years of follow-up. Regardless of their severity, however, all pediatric burns require specialized care and expertise.
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