Provided by TTUHSC
LUBBOCK, TX (NEWS RELEASE) - Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Department of Surgery Chair Sharmila Dissanaike, M.D., was elected arsenic the American Burn Association president for 2025. The relation is the largest enactment of pain professionals successful the satellite and is dedicated to improving the lives of those affected by pain injuries.
Dissanaike, who is besides the adjunct aesculapian manager of the University Medical Center Timothy J. Harnar Burn Center, is simply a clinically progressive trauma, pain and acute attraction surgeon who has won much than 50 awards for clinical, world and probe excellence during her career.
“Dr. Dissanaike is simply a beardown pedagogue and clinician serving the communities of the South Plains,” Steven L. Berk, M.D., TTUHSC enforcement vice president and School of Medicine dean, said. “She is lone 1 of 24 pistillate surgeons chairing a section of country successful astir 200 aesculapian schools crossed North America. We are arrogant that Dr. Dissanaike has been appointed to this nationalist relation for her accomplishments arsenic a front-running person successful country and pain care.”
Dissanaike serves successful aggregate nationalist enactment and prime assurance roles successful trauma, including arsenic seat of the American Burn Association Verification Committee and arsenic a subordinate of the American Colleges of Surgeons Trauma Verification Committee and Committee connected Trauma. She besides serves connected the boards of the American Burn Association, South Western Surgical Congress and the Texas Medical Board.
The caller American Burn Association officers volition statesman their presumption May 19, 2023. Dissanaike volition service a president elite for 2023-2024 and past statesman her word arsenic president successful 2025.
According to the American Burn Association, the organization’s members dedicate their efforts and resources to promoting and supporting burn-related research, education, care, rehabilitation and prevention. The American Burn Association has much than 2,000 members successful the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and Latin America. Members see physicians, nurses, occupational and carnal therapists, researchers, societal workers, occurrence fighters and hospitals with pain centers.
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