Summary: the prevention mindset offers the greatest opportunity to reduce burn morbidity/mortality and improve the quality-of-life in burn survivors. Dr. Sheckter will explore missed opportunities in primary prevention while offering surgical techniques and tools for secondary and tertiary prevention.

• Define primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention as it applies to burn injuries.
• Explain mechanisms and health policy levers to improve burn prevention.
• Understand the meaning and application of timely burn excision and reconstruction.