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R. Cartland Burns, MD

Job Title Clinical Director, Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Job Title Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Department of Surgery
4401 Penn Avenue, Suite Floor 4
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
412-692-8390 Phone
412-692-8299 Fax
Email cartland.burns@chp.edu
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Education and Training

Medical School:

1988 University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO

Residency:

1990 Creighton University, Omaha, NE
1995 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Fellowship:

1992 The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
1997 Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

Memberships

  • Member, Association for Academic Surgery Education Committee
  • American Academy of Pediatrics
  • American Pediatric Surgical Association
    American College of Surgeons, Fellow
  • Association of Academic Surgery
  • Association of Surgical Education
  • Medical Society of Virginia
    Virginia Surgical Society
    Virginia Chapter, American College of Surgeons, Fellow

Board Certifications

  • The American Board of Surgery, Recertified in General Surgery
  • The American Board of Surgery, Special Qualifications in Pediatric Surgery
  • The American Board of Surgery, General Surgery

Awards

  • Invited Speaker, Pacific Association of Pediatric Surgeons, "Primary Gastric
    Tumors in Infancy and Childhood."
  • Invited Speaker, University of Costa Rica Postgraduate Course
    "Evaluation and Management of Intestinal Perforation and Necrotizing
    Enterocolitis", "Surgical Management of Hirschsprung's Disease", "Evaluation and Management of Abdominal Trauma"

Publications

  • Tai CC, Curtis JL, Sala FG, Del Moral PM, Chokshi N, Kanard RJ, Al Alam D, Wang J, Burns RC, Ford HR, Grishin A, Wang KS, Bellusci S. Induction of fibroblast growth factor 10 (FGF10) in the ileal crypt epithelium after massive small bowel resection suggests a role for FGF10 in gut adaptation. Dev Dyn. 2009 Feb;238(2):294-301.
  • Curtis JL, Burns RC, Wang L, Mahour GH, Ford HR. Primary gastric tumors of infancy and childhood: 54-year experience at a single institution. J Pediatr Surg. 2008 Aug;43(8):1487-93.
  • Nucci A, Burns RC, Armah T, Lowery K, Yaworski JA, Strohm S, Bond G, Mazariegos G, Squires R. Interdisciplinary management of pediatric intestinal failure: a 10-year review of rehabilitation and transplantation. J Gastrointest Surg. 2008 Mar;12(3):429-35; discussion 435-6.

    View Dr. Burns' full list of publications from PubMed.

Active Research Projects / Grants

  • Evaluating the Role of Inflammatory Mediators in Spontaneous Mouse Model of Crohn's Disease
  • The Role of Fgf-10 in Regulating Differentiating Hindgut and Midgut Structures
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April 28, 2010
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