New Horizons in Canadian Burn Care
Kerecis is honored to participate in this year’s Canadian Burn Association event, joining clinicians and researchers who are committed to advancing burn care and improving healing outcomes for patients across Canada.
Burn injuries present some of the most complex challenges in wound management. The Canadian burn‑care community continues to push innovation forward, ensuring patients receive evidence‑based treatment and compassionate support throughout their recovery. At Kerecis, we share this commitment. Our mission is to help patients heal better through naturally derived, intact fish‑skin technology that supports tissue regeneration and restores function.
The Canadian Burn Association brings together healthcare providers, first responders, therapists, researchers, survivors, and advocates to strengthen prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, education, and collaboration. We value the opportunity to connect with this multidisciplinary network, exchange clinical insights, and contribute to discussions on biologic solutions that can help improve outcomes in burn care.
Kerecis will be attending the Canadian Burn Association meeting and will demonstrate how intact fish‑skin grafts can be used to support improved healing outcomes in burn care.
New Horizons in Canadian Burn Care with Fish Skin Technology
Introduction to Fish Skin Technology in Burn Care burn care and improving healing outcomes for patients across Canada.
Burns are traumatic and physically debilitating for patients, who may experience slow healing rates, infection, pain, and hypertrophic scarring during their recovery. Backed by industry-leading clinical data, Kerecis’ can optimize your patients’ burn care and recovery. Made of intact fish skin, it is clinically proven to accelerate burn wound healing, while reducing complications, length of stay, and scarring.
Come join us to learn more about how you can apply fish skin to your practice, the clinical evidence and publications to support this new technology and an opportunity to see the product.
Speaker Name: RAJIV SOOD, M.D., FACS
Speaker Bio:
RAJIV SOOD, M.D., FACS
JOSEPH M. STILL BURN CENTERS, INC.
Dr. Rajiv Sood, M.D., FACS, is a distinguished reconstructive plastic surgeon who joined the Joseph M. Still Burn Centers in January 2023 and currently serves as the Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Services.
Dr. Sood completed his general surgery residency at Temple University and a plastic surgery residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He went on to complete a hand, nerve and microsurgical fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Raymond Curtis Hand Center.
After his training, Dr. Sood joined the Indiana University School of Medicine faculty and became a member of University Plastic Surgeons, where he eventually served as the Chairman of Plastic Surgery and Program Director for four years. He also recently served as the Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Services for the Burn and Reconstructive Centers of America for two years before taking on the same role for the JMS network of burn centers.
Known through the United States and internationally for his research interests, Dr. Sood has earned a reputation as an investigator and leader in research and clinical experience for emerging technologies in skin replacement. He has also been awarded multiple grants, written more 60 articles and 16 book chapters, and edited and co-authored the 2006 book, “Burn Reconstruction and Rehabilitation.”
Dr. Sood has presented more than 250 papers regionally, nationally and internationally and has led teams of burn staff on international medical mission trips to El Salvador and Kenya to provide care to impoverished pediatric and adult burn patients and to breast cancer survivors. His primary interests include acute and reconstructive burn surgery, treatment of acute and chronic wounds, and management of other skin disorders.
From the town of Ísafjörður in northwest Iceland, Kerecis develops, manufactures, and distributes patented fish-skin medical devices that support soft tissue regeneration in the body, with regulatory clearance in the United States, Europe, and beyond.
MariGen Compact is intact fish skin that’s been fragmented into small units (≤ 2.0 mm) and then compressed into a compact disc format.
It offers the same clinical benefits as Kerecis’ Micro variation, while enhancing ease of use for wound-care specialists.
Stay tuned to learn more!
SurgiClose Compact is intact fish skin that’s been fragmented into small units (≤ 2.0 mm) and then compressed into a compact disc format.
It offers the same clinical benefits as Kerecis’ Micro variation, while enhancing ease of use for surgeons.
Stay tuned to learn more!
