Gretchen Carrougher (NWRBMS research consultant) worked alongside other US clinicians at the Kiruddu National Referral Hospital the first week of March 2026. Gretchen traveled to Kampala, Uganda as a burn nurse educator, working with others on a surgical mission sponsored by ReSurge International.
In early February 2026, Medical Director, Dr. Tam Pham traveled to Nepal to participate in a surgical mission at the Nepal Cleft and Burn Center, Kirtipur Hospital. Thank you Dr. Pham for continued support of global burn care.
Maiya Pacleb, BS – NWRBMS research assistant and 2nd year UW medical student, presented BMS research findings at the 2026 Western Medical Research Conference in Carmel, CA. Her research focused on measuring the financial hardship after a burn injury.
On December 3rd, we welcomed Dr. Jeremy Hess, Professor, Emergency Medicine and Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington as our guest speaker at the 21st Annual David M. Heimbach Visiting Professor Lectureship.
Gretchen Carrougher, research consultant for the NWRBMS, presented at the XVI Iberolatinoamericano de Quemaduras congress in Quito, Ecuador on November 6th, 2025.
UW Burn Center faculty and staff provide outreach ‘Burn Bootcamp’ education and Advanced Burn Life Support (ABLS) class for San Juan Island EMS.
BMS colleagues from UT Southwestern have just published a new factsheet on heat stress after a burn injury.
Past UW Burn Center director Nicole Gibran, MD was awarded the 2025 American Burn Association Special Achievement Award for her years of service to the burn community. Congratulations Dr. Gibran —this is well deserved!
Congratulations to Burn Center Acute Care Nurse Manager, Tara Lerew on receiving the DAISY Nurse Leader Award. This international award honors nurse managers for their compassion in leadership. We are SO proud!
A multi-institutional team of educators traveled to Utqiagvik (Barrow, Alaska) in February 2025 to teach ABLS to clinicians and first responders.
