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Participating in our chat are Dr. Roger W. Yurt, the director at New York-Presbyterian's William Randolph Hearst Burn Center, and Heather Caldwell, marketing and communications manager for Kidde Fire Safety. Yurt has also been a long-time contributor to our special "Operation 7: Save a Life," which airs on Jan. 24 at 7 p.m.

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Roger W. Yurt, M.D., director at New York-Presbyterian's William Randolph Hearst Burn Center: Dr. Yurt is the Johnson and Johnson Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Vice Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and serves as the Chief of the Division of Burns, Critical Care and Trauma at the New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. He is the Director of the William Randolph Hearst Burn Center at the same institution.

Dr. Yurt received his M.D. degree at the University of Miami School of Medicine and performed his initial residency training at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, TX. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Medicine at the Robert B. Brigham Hospital and Harvard Medical School and was Chief Resident in Surgery at the New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center. He subsequently served on active duty in the Army at the United States Army Institute of Surgical Research for three years.

He has authored over 100 original manuscripts and book chapters dealing with trauma, burns and acute inflammatory response to injury. In addition, he is an ad-hoc reviewer for six professional journals.

In 2003, the American Skin Association presented Dr. Yurt and the William Randolph Hearst Burn Center with the Meritorious Humanitarian Recognition Award. During that same year, the Royal Society of Medicine presented Dr. Yurt with the Richard T. Hewitt Award, recognizing him as an influential contributor to quality assurance in surgery, medical education, public health, and research in the burn and trauma areas.

Dr. Yurt received the Outstanding Physician of the Year Award in 2006 at the New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. In 2009, he received the Jim Curran Memorial Award given by the Stephen Siller, FDNY "Let Us Do Good" Children's Foundation and was also the recipient of an Excellence in Teaching Award given by the Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

He is a member of the Regional Emergency Medical Advisory Committee of NYC and a past member of the NY State Trauma Advisory Committee. Previously, he served as the Chairman of both the Regional Trauma and the Regional Burn Advisory Committees.

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