West Penn Burn Center – Burn Surgery Fellowship
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About the program
The West Penn Burn Center at Allegheny Health Network is pleased to offer a one-year Burn Surgery Fellowship designed to train the next generation of leaders in comprehensive burn care, reconstruction, and rehabilitation. Founded in 1969, the West Penn Burn Center has a longstanding history of excellence in burn care and serves as a regional referral center for complex burn injuries throughout western Pennsylvania and the surrounding region. The center is verified by the American Burn Association and American College of Surgeons for adult burn care and also provides care for pediatric burn patients.
Located within West Penn Hospital, the Burn Center provides fellows with extensive experience in the management of critically ill burn patients and the full continuum of burn recovery, including:
- Acute burn resuscitation and critical care
- Operative burn surgery, including excision and grafting
- Advanced skin substitutes and regenerative technologies
- Modern wound care and enzymatic debridement strategies
- Comprehensive outpatient burn care and longitudinal follow-up
- Laser scar therapy and advanced post-burn reconstruction
- Functional and aesthetic reconstruction of burn deformities
- Multidisciplinary rehabilitation and recovery
The West Penn Burn Center is a 14-bed regional burn center with specialized capabilities for critically ill burn patients, caring for more than 250 inpatient burn admissions and over 2,000 outpatient visits annually. The service is staffed by two dedicated burn surgeons and supported by advanced practice providers and general surgery residents, providing fellows with progressive operative autonomy, multidisciplinary collaboration, and team-based leadership experience.
Under the leadership of a plastic and reconstructive surgeon with specialized burn training, fellows will gain a unique perspective not commonly available in traditional burn fellowships, with particular emphasis on reconstruction, scar modulation, long-term functional outcomes, and comprehensive burn recovery across the continuum of care.
Fellows will work closely with a multidisciplinary team including burn surgeons, intensivists, advanced practice providers, therapists, rehabilitation specialists, nurses, pharmacists, nutritionists, social workers, and general surgery residents. In addition to clinical training, fellows will gain exposure to the operational, administrative, educational, and quality improvement aspects of leading a modern burn center.
Opportunities are available for clinical research, program development, resident and medical student education, and participation in regional and national burn initiatives.
The fellowship is open to physicians who are board eligible or board certified in plastic surgery or general surgery, as well as those who have successfully completed a minimum of three years of accredited training in general surgery or plastic surgery.
This fellowship is ideal for candidates seeking rigorous operative and critical care experience while helping shape the continued growth and modernization of a nationally recognized regional burn center.