Conference Speakers

“Jeffrey W. Shupp is a Professor of Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Biochemistry, and Molecular & Cellular Biology at Georgetown University School of Medicine. He is an adjunct Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Dr. Shupp leads MedStar Health’s Regional Burn Program which is the largest American Burn Association Verified Burn Center in the greater Washington DC Metro Area. He is also the lead investigator at MedStar Health’s, Firefighters’ Burn and Surgical Research Laboratory.

Dr. Shupp’s research interests include—endothelial dysfunction after thermal and inhalation injury, abnormal fibrinolysis, coagulopathy, surgical infections, tissue regeneration, novel approaches to medical imaging, burn shock pathophysiology, host response to injury, combined radiation exposure, cutaneous desquamating conditions and abnormal wound healing such as hypertrophic scar.

He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Burn Care and Research and a member of the Board of Trustees for the American Burn Association (ABA). He serves as co-chair of the Burn Science Advisory Panel for the ABA.”