Director North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center

John Stackhouse Distinguished Professor of Surgery

Associate Professor of Surgery/ Microbiology and Immunology

University of North Carolina School of Medicine

 

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 Surg; Surg Critical Care - American Board

As a Lt. Cmmdr. with the US Navy, Dr. Cairns was on duty and a principle responder to the KAL flight that crashed in 1997 in Guam.  Dr. Cairns was instrumental in developing the level of preparedness at the Naval Hospital there which 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 state's Burn Center, at UNC.  In 2006, Dr. Cairns was named as the Director of the Jaycee Burn Center and is nationally known as a leader in Burn Trauma Care.

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