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Experienced Staff

The care team at the UMMC Mississippi Burn Center offers both adults and children the highest level of care for burns and wounds. Adult and pediatric specialists are available in every discipline needed for the complex, specialized care patients require for the best possible outcomes. Our specialists treat burns of every level of severity.

Juvonda Hodge, MD, professor of surgery at the UMMC School of Medicine, serves as the medical director of the Burn Center. With more than 17 years of experience in pediatric and adult burn care, Dr. Hodge leads UMMC experts in a wide range of adult and pediatric specialties including:

• Emergency medicine
• Trauma surgery
• Plastic surgery
• Critical care
• Laboratory medicine
• Mental health
• Nutrition
• Occupational therapy
• Physical therapy

Additionally, as part of Mississippi’s only academic medical center, adult and pediatric specialists in a full complement of disciplines are on site for immediate consultation. For example, ophthalmologists are readily available to care for patients with eye injuries from fireworks accidents.

Nurses specially trained in burn care

All nurses at the Burn Center are critical care nurses who have been specially trained and oriented in the specific care of burn patients. They routinely participate in continuing education opportunities, and many are currently working toward critical care and burn nurse certifications.