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The Burn Shock Trauma Institute

The Burn and Shock Trauma Institute is a multidisciplinary program that focuses upon prevention, treatment, education and research issues relevant to trauma and injury. The institute includes the representation of a number of disciplines including surgery, physiology, immunology, biochemistry, pediatrics, public health, rehabilitation, cell biology, neurobiology and anatomy.

The Burn and Shock Trauma Institute serves as the research arm of Loyola's Burn Center and trauma service, investigating problems in post-burn immunosuppression, wound healing and nutritional support. Other research projects include the study of growth-stimulating factors, endotoxin shock, the role of the macrophage in wound repair, insulin resistance and altered carbohydrate mechanism in sepsis and burns. The Burn and Shock Trauma Institute conducts epidemiologically based research in injury and injury control through its Injury Analysis Division. The Prevention Division develops and conducts community-based injury prevention programs.

The Burn and Shock Trauma Institute welcomes inquiries from physicians, researchers and the community.

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Director - Richard L. Gamelli, MD
Associate Director - Elizabeth J. Kovacs, PhD

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