Bruce A. Cairns MD
Director, North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center
University of North Carolina - UNC Hospitals
- BA Natural Sciences - The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 1985
- MD - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- General Surgery Residency - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 1989-1996
- NIH/NRSA Trauma Fellow - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 1992-1994
- Surgical Critical Care Fellow - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 1999-2000
- Gen Surgery; Surgical Critical Care - American Board
- As a lieutenat commander in the US Navy, Dr. Cairns was instrumental in developing the level of preparedness at the naval hospital in Guam. He was on duty and a principle responder to the KAL flight that crashed there in 1997. Dr. Cairns received and managed dozens of critical patients in the morning following the crash of the 747.
- Dr. Cairns has served North Carolina as a burn trauma surgeon at the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center, and in 2006, was named as the director. He is nationally known as a leader in burn trauma care.