July 7, 2005

Dear Colleagues:

I am delighted to announce the appointment of Stephen Milner, M.D., as chief of burn services for The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Dr. Milner, who joins us from Southern Illinois University, has impeccable credentials. 

Dr. Milner earned his medical and dental degrees at Guy's Hospital, University of London. He completed a general surgery residency in London and won a scholarship to Harvard Medical School in 1975, where he first became interested in burns during his rotation through Boston 's Shriner's Burn Hospital. On his return to London, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a surgeon, serving as a lieutenant colonel during Operation Desert Storm and increasing his burn experience. Afterward, he returned to the United States to train in plastic surgery, concentrating on burns and reconstruction.  

In 1997, Dr. Milner joined the staff at Southern Illinois, rising from assistant to full professor in six years and becoming director of the burn center.  It grew substantially while he was in charge, partly because other specialists were welcomed. 

At Hopkins, Dr. Milner will be adding intensivists and other staff to our burn services. In addition, there are plans to re-open 10 step-down beds, doubling the size of the current unit by September. Because one of Dr. Milner's chief research interests is wounds, he also has been named surgical director of the Johns Hopkins Wound Healing Center based at Hopkins Bayview.

Robert Spence, M.D., will continue as director of the Center for Burn Reconstruction and will work with Dr. Milner to make more reconstructive surgery possible--an area for national and international potential.

Please join me in welcoming Stephen Milner to the Hopkins family. 

Sincerely,

Julie Freischlag, M.D.
William Stewart Halsted Professor
Director of Surgical Sciences
Johns Hopkins Medicine