Boston Shriners Hospital's Chief of Staff Installed as President of the American Burn Association.Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 20, 2000 The Chief of Staff of Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston, Ronald G. Tompkins, M.D., Sc.D., was installed the 32nd President of the American Burn Association at the annual convention in March. Born in Many, La., Dr. Tompkins received his undergraduate degree in 1972 from Tulane University and graduated from the Medical School at Tulane in 1976. After graduating from medical school, he served an internship and residency in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital Health care The major teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School, widely regarded as one of the best health care centers in the world between 1976 and 1985. During that period he also completed the requirements for the Sc.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, , in medical and chemical engineering. He has held fellowships in chemical and medical engineering at M.I.T. and a clinical fellowship at Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a prestigious American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. . He is certified in the fields of general surgery and surgical critical care by the American Board of Surgery The American Board of Surgery (ABS) is an independent, non-profit organization based in Philadelphia founded for the purpose of certifying surgeons who have met a defined standard of education, training and knowledge. . Dr. Tompkins has been Chief of Staff at the Boston Shriners Hospital since 1990. In addition, he is Chief of the Trauma, Burns and Critical Care Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, and is the John F. Burke Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, and most recently was appointed a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. He is a member of 40 national and international societies and holds leadership positions in many of these organizations. He is currently serving as an active director of the American Board of Surgery and is chairman of the In Training/Basic Science Examination Committee of this board. Dr. Tompkins was instrumental in the development of the Burn Center Verification Program and the American College of Surgeons This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. National Trauma Registry, which includes the development of the Burn Registry. He is chairman of the Task Force on Pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. Burns Outcomes cosponsored by the ABA and the Shriners Hospitals for Children History Shriners Hospitals for Children is a network of 22 pediatric non-profit hospitals across North America that provide all care at no charge. In 1920 the Imperial Session of the Shriners was held in Portland, Oregon. . He is also Director of Research at the Boston Shriners Hospital. He has made numerous contributions to burn care and research contributing more than 250 original reports to the scientific literature covering clinical issues in burn care as well as basic and clinical research. Among his research interests he has particular interests in hepatic tissue engineering involving studies in cryopreservation cryopreservation /cryo·pres·er·va·tion/ (-prez?er-va´shun) maintenance of the viability of excised tissue or organs by storing at very low temperatures. cry·o·pres·er·va·tion n. , and liver cell biology. Dr. Tompkins and his wife, Denise, live in Boston and have three children, Megan, Ryan and Cate. As leaders in the care of children with severe burns, Shriners Hospitals have been involved in the ABA for several years. In the past five years, two other Shriners Hospitals' burn physicians served as president of the ABA - David Herndon, M.D., Chief of Staff of the Galveston Shriners Hospital, was president in 1994; and Glenn Warden, M.D., Chief of Staff of the Cincinnati Shriners Hospital, in 1993. For more information on Shriners' network of 22 hospitals that treat children with orthopaedic problems, burns and spinal cord injuries Spinal Cord Injury Definition Spinal cord injury is damage to the spinal cord that causes loss of sensation and motor control. Description Approximately 10,000 new spinal cord injuries (SCIs) occur each year in the United States. , please write to International Shrine Headquarters, Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Dept., 2900 Rocky Point Drive, Tampa, FL, 33607, or visit our Web site at www.shrinershq.org. If you know a child Shriners can help, call 1-800-237-5055 in the United States and 1-800-361-7256 in Canada. Shriners Hospitals provide free treatment to children under age 18 without regard to race, religion or relationship to a Shriner. |
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