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Robert L. McCauley,
Robert L. McCauley, MD, FACS is the Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics and the Medical Director Shriners Burns Hospital Tissue Bank at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Shriners Burns Hospital in Galveston, Texas. He
is a graduate of the
University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. Prior to taking his
post at the Shriners Burn Hospital in Galveston, he held a fellowship at
the National Cancer Institute,
Bethesda,
Maryland. He has been nationally recognized for his
contributions to burn care and plastic reconstructive surgery in burned
children. He leads a multi-centered project to examine the long-term
efficacy of pressure garment therapy in controlling hypertrophic scarring
in burned children. He is on numerous editorial boards and national
committees and has published many peer reviewed papers and book chapters.
His current research involves the use of tissue culture methods to
determine the responses of human fibroblasts and human keratinocytes to
agents which affect wound healing.
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