Center's Director
Dr. James H. Holmes, IV 
Dr. James H. Holmes, IV joined the Department of General Surgery in January 2006 as an Assistant Professor of Surgery/Trauma Services and as the Medical Director of the Burn Center. Originally from Dallas, Texas, he graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1990 with a degree in Biology and subsequently earned a medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in 1996. Dr. Holmes trained in General Surgery at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, from 1996-2002. He completed a basic science research fellowship in Immunology at the Virginia Mason Research Center/Benaroya Research Institute in 1999. Dr. Holmes completed a fellowship in Burn Surgery at the University of Washington Harborview Medical Center in 2003 and subsequently completed a Trauma/Surgical Critical Care fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. He is board certified in General Surgery and in Surgical Critical Care.
Associate Director
Dr. Joseph A. Molnar 
Dr. Joseph A. Molnar received his M.D. from Ohio State University in 1977 and began his general Surgery training at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He was a Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Shriner's Burns Institute while pursuing his PhD. in Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, between 1979 and 1985. He finished his general surgery training int 1989 at the University of Washington in Seattle. After completing his Plastic Surgery training at the Medical College of Virginia in 1992, he went on to do both a Hand and Microsurgery Fellowships at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He joined the faculty of Wake Forest University in 1994 and is currently Associate Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery as well as Associate Director of the Burn Center. He is board certified in both Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery. He is active in the American Burn Association and the Advanced Burn Life Support Advisory Committee as well as the International Society of Burn Injury and is involved in numerous research projects related to burn injury and wound healing.