Advances in Skin, Wound Care and Tissue Science

Biography

Naiem Moiemen, MB BS, MSc, FRCS (Plast) is an Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham and a consultant plastic and burns surgeon at University Hospital Birmingham. He is Director of the Scar Free Foundation Centre for Burn Research in Birmingham He is the Clinical Lead of the Midland Burns Care Network, serving a population of 10 million. Naiem is Immediate Past President of European Burn Association Executive, President-Elect of the International Association of Burn Injury (ISBI) and past Chairman of the British Burn Association (BBA). He is supervising 3 PhD students and current chief investigator of 4 current multi-centre burns clinical trials: NIHR-HTA pressure garment pilot efficacy multi-centre trial, and the SIFTI trial investigating the acute response to burn injury and HESTIA trial investigating gut translocation following thermal injury. He is also PI on the Wellcome-NIHR HICF to develop an anti-scarring wound dressing, and recently £4.5m Libor Grant fund to establish a scar and wound healing research centre in Birmingham. He has published more than 90 papers in peer review journals and book chapters. He is a senior editor of BURNS journal and deputy editor of Journal of Burn and Trauma.

Research Interest

Scars, Wound Healing, Burns, Burn Injury