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Warren L. Garner

Expert in emergency medical care, including after natural disasters and terrorist attacks
  • Professor of Surgery
  • Program Director, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Residency
  • Director, Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center Burn Unit
  • Keck School of Medicine of USC
Office: (323) 442-7920
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Expertise

  • plastic and reconstructive surgery
  • management of acute burn injuries,including thermal burns, chemicalburns and electrical burns
  • burn pathophysiology and treatment
  • scarring after acute burn injury, includingcellular mechanisms of scar formation
  • acute and chronic wound healing
  • reconstruction of burn deformities
  • use of botulinum toxin for aestheticimprovement
  • skin grafts
  • anesthesia and critical care in plasticsurgery
  • management and surgical treatment ofwound infection
  • psychosocial factors affecting outcomefollowing trauma injury