Crozer-Keystone Adds Two National Recognitions to Long History of Achievement

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Linwood Haith Jr.
Linwood Haith Jr.

The Crozer-Keystone Health System’s renowned Nathan Speare Regional Burn Treatment Center at Crozer-Chester Medical Center recently added two more national recognitions to its long history of achievement.

First, the burn center’s co-medical director, Linwood Haith Jr., has assumed the presidency of the American Burn Association (ABA) for a one-year term. Secondly, the Crozer Burn Center is the 2017 ABA national “Burn Program of the Year.”

“It is an incredible honor to assume this leadership role with the American Burn Association, and for our burn center to receive such prestigious national recognition,” said Haith. “It is truly a tribute to our outstanding, dedicated team and the work they do every day to care for our patients.”

As president of the ABA, Haith’s duties now include:

  • representing the organization domestically and internationally
  • advocating burn-related issues in Washington, D.C.
  • promoting and supporting patient care, education, rehabilitation, prevention and burn-related research

Haith also supervises the functions of the ABA’s Board of Trustees. He is the second Crozer Burn Center physician to be named president of the ABA. Charles Hartford was ABA president in 1981.

The “Burn Center of the Year” is chosen by the ABA’s Archives Committee. The title is often awarded in conjunction with the ABA presidency.

Haith graduated with a bachelor of science from Yale and earned his medical degree from Harvard. He is board-certified in general surgery and surgical critical care. He was recently promoted to the academic rank of clinical professor in the department of surgery at Drexel University College of Medicine. He has authored a textbook chapter, 55 peer review articles, and 66 abstracts, and has lectured regionally, nationally, and internationally.

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