CFBTS News
Happy Nurses Week
Last week, we proudly celebrate the incredible nurses who are the backbone of health care—not just in Southern Alberta, but across the country. At the Calgary Firefighters Burn Treatment Society, we’re honoured to work alongside an elite team of nurses at the Calgary Firefighters Burn Treatment Unit at Foothills [...]
CFBTS Attends 2025 American Burn Association
CFBTS is proud to attend the 2025 American Burn Association Conference in Phoenix, AZ. The year's theme,"Innovate and Engage,"will drive new ideas to take home and foster meaningful connections with other organizations and medical staff. Alongside Calgary Firefighters Burn Treatment Society, the staff from the Foothills Burn Unit have [...]
UofC Lab Brings New Understanding on Skin Cancer Linked to Burn Scars
This amazing team is always in front of the curve and making new connections! Check out the article that just keeps getting picked up by more Medical journals. https://news.ucalgary.ca/news/highly-specialized-ucalgary-lab-brings-new-understanding-skin-cancer-linked-burn-scars https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1062877 https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-10-genomic-technology-aggressive-skin-cancer.html https://www.miragenews.com/genomic-tech-probes-aggressive-skin-cancer-in-1345702/
2023 Summer Student Successes
With August here, the CFBTS has helped to support the work of several undergraduate summer students. This year, Apolline Pistek worked on “Multimodal mechanical examination of human skin following burn injury and split thickness skin grafting” with Dr. Gabriel. Apolline was awarded a scholarship from the Program for Undergraduate [...]
CFBTS won the John A. Moncrief Award
Yay Us! And thanks to YOU!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 This week at the American Burn Association annual meeting we were awarded the Dr. John A Moncrief Award. The John A. Moncrief Award is awarded to fire services for outstanding contribution in the area of burn prevention or burn care. Dr. John A. [...]
Biernaskie Lab Published in Cell Press: Why does reindeer antler velvet regenerate without scar?
Huge Congratulations to the team at the Biernaskie Lab at University of Calgary, their article has been published in Cell Press! They have been continuously working on these questions and forwarding advancements in Skin regeneration and wound healing for many years. It's so awesome to see all their hard [...]
