Sunnybrook Burn Symposium Celebrates Walter Peters
 Sunnybrook Burn Care Symposium
On June 4, 2013, the first Burn Day Symposium was
held at the Sunnybrook Vaughan Estates.
The opening remarks by Barry McLellan, President and
CEO of Sunnybrook, were followed by the introduction
of the first inaugural Walter J. Peters Honorary
Lecture. Christopher Forrest, Chair of the Division
of Plastic Surgery, introduced the Dr. Peters. The first
inaugural lecture was given by Richard Gamelli, Senior
Vice President and Provost of Health Sciences at Loyola
University of Chicago.
 Richard Gamelli
Dr. Gamelli, a world-renowned burn surgeon, is
currently the President of the International Society for
Burn Injuries, past President of the American Burn
Association, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of
Burn Care and Research. His talk focused on Clinical
Translational Science, demonstrating how changes in the
bone marrow in an in- vitro model as well as a clinical
model change clinical practice.
Dr. Gordon Rubenfeld, Chief of the Trauma,
Emergency and Critical Care program at Sunnybrook
and a world expert in respiratory distress syndrome, gave
an overview of current diagnoses, an update on ARDS,
and the implications for management of burn patients.
Avery Nathens, Surgeon-in-Chief Sunnybrook
Health Sciences Centre, spoke about quality improvement
in trauma. His unique role in transforming the
care of trauma patients in the province of Ontario was
delineated and demonstrated how this could potentially
become a Provincial Burn Program.
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Sarvesh Logsetty, the Burn Unit Director at the
Manitoba Health Sciences Centre, spoke about novel
data that his team collected on significant, long term
cognitive impairment in burn patients. This unrecognized
and underestimated finding shows that a burn is
not over when the skin has healed, as the psyche is significantly
affected for several years post-burn.
Anthony Papp, the Medical Director of the BC
Professional Firefighters’ Burn Unit and Clinical Associate
Professor at the University of British Columbia, spoke
about the differences in post-burn responses related
to Ethnicity and Etiologies. In his study of over 5,000
patients, different etiologies and ethnicities, resulted
in different outcomes, suggesting that new treatment
approaches can be focused on particular patient populations.
The New Developments session featured Critical Care
and Pain Management by Shar Shahrokhi, Advances
in the Therapy of Severe Facial Burns by Robert
Cartotto, Rehabilitation by Manuel Gomez , Change in
Outpatient Care Small Burns by Joel Fish. Lastly, Robert
Jaunkalns presented on Delirium in the ICU. Burn ICU
patients have one of the highest incidences of delirium.
Robert beautifully demonstrated how burn trauma can
be linked to the Delirium associated with drugs and
injuries.
The afternoon concluded with Pro and Con Debates
on the use of antioxidants, use of sedation interruption
as well as the use of pressure garments.
The message of the day was: “We will drive towards a
Provincial Burn Program in Ontario. The Mission is to
create a Canadian Burn initiative and database in order
to improve care in the country.”
The response to this inaugural event attended by over
200 participants was overwhelmingly positive. Plans are
currently being made for a Second Annual Sunnybrook
Burn Symposium.
Marc Jeschke
Director, Ross Tilley Burn Centre
Walter Peters
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Most of the faculty and
house-staff may not realize
that the Ross Tilley
Burn Centre (RTBC)
had its inception at the
Wellesley Hospital located
at the corner of Wellesley
and Sherbourne Street. The
Centre was established in
1984 and was under the
directorship of Dr. Wally
Peters. Wally did a phenomenal job of providing
state if the art burn care for almost 2 decades and
was instrumental in shaping the careers of several
people who have gone on to bigger things (Dr.
Peter Neligan, Dr. Dimitri Anastakis, Dr. Joel Fish
and Dr. Rob Cartotto to mention a few).
Christopher Forrest,
Chair, Division of Plastic Surgery
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