Dr.Andrew Burd is a Senior Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeon and a Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also the Chief of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital and the Director of Burns Services, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin.

Dr. Burd has contributed over 250 articles in various Peer Reviewed Publications. He is also one of the most globally sought after speaker.

Patents:

• US Patent Application No. 12/527,624 – Project title “An electro-chemical hydrogel based wound dressing”.

Editorial Board:

• Overseas Editor, Indian Journal of Burns, India
• International Advisor, Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, India
• Deputy Editor, Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, UK (Sept 2006 – Aug 2007)
• Editor in Chief, Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, UK (Sept 2007 – July 2009)
• Member of Editorial Board, World Journal of Stem Cells (WJSC), China (Jan 2011)
• Member of Editorial Board, World Journal of Surgical Procedures, China (2011-2015)
• Associate Editor, Global J of Med and Public Health, India (Feb 2012)
• International Editorial Board Member, Journal of Society of Wound Care and Research (JSWCR), India (Oct 2012 – Sep 2015)
• Editor in Chief Plastic and Maxillo-Facial surgery and Aesthetic Medicine News (from July 2013)

Clinical Research Background:

• The treatment of intractable haemangioma using monitored copper wire insertion (2001)
• A comparative study to assess the clinical effectiveness and patient tolerance of the q-switched 755nm alexandrite and q-switched 1064nm NG:YAG lasers in the treatment of blue-black tattoos (2002)
• A study of paracrine factors involved in keratinocyte-melanocyte interaction in a laser induced model (2003)
• Keloid scarring in the oriental population (2003)
• Biological activity of wound fluid (2004)
• An evaluation of foetal stem cell interactions with post natal keratinocytes and dermal fibroblasts (2004)
• An investigation of the role of epidermal stem cells in modulating epithelial-mesenchymal networks in post-burn keloid scarring (2004)
• The effect of pulsed, frequency doubled, ND:YAG 532nm laser on gene regulation in human dermal fibroblasts (2004)
• Prospective, randomized, double blind controlled trials of hydrogel and hydrogel + chlorhexidine (0.025%) in acute burns and skin graft donor sites (2004)
• The role of plasma cell free DNA as an indicator of the severity of burns injury (2005)
• Targeting apoptosis: a study of laser induction and hyaluronan modulation in keloid-derived cells (2006)
• Assessing facial function in Chinese patients with facial burns: The facial functional impairment index (2006)
• A multicenter, randomized, open-label comparison of the safety and efficacy of tigecycline with that of ampicillin-sulbactam or amoxicillin-clavulanate to treat complicated skin and skin structure infections (2006)
• Investigation of application of cord lining stem cells in burns and wound care (2006)
• Stem cell strategies in burns care: human umbilical cord blood and cord lining cells (2007)
• An investigation of the plasticity of human umbilical cord blood-derived stem cells in tissue-engineering of skin (2007)
• An investigation of the potential therapeutic application of human umbilical cord lining epithelium for the reconstruction of the skin and buccal mucosal epithelial defects (2007)
• Genetic susceptibility of keloid disease (2008)
• An investigation of the plasticity of human umbilical cord lining for epithelial reconstitution (2008)
• Charactering the expression and function of microRNA in keloid disease (2008)
• Development of a new hand held terahertz probe for medical applications (2009)
• Stem Cell Strategies in Epidermolysis Bullosa (2009)
• A Study of the Functional Stem Cell Capacity of Human Umbilical Cord Lining Epithelial Cells (2009)
• The potential role of decoy receptor 3 in the pathogenesis of keloid scarring (2010)
• Stem Cell Strategies in Epidermolysis Bullosa - Potential Use of Human Umbilical Cord or Cord Blood-dervied MSCs (2010)
• A comparative study of Asian keloid scar treatment with the UltraPulse Encore and Intralesional Steroid Therapy (2011)
• Investigation of Stem Cell Characteristics of Human Umbilical Cord Lining Epithelial Cells (2011)
• Asian Burn Scar Revision with the UltraPulse Encore (2011)
• An investigation of the response of keloid scars to corticosteroid and 5-Fluorouracil: characterization of miRNA expression, histopathology and clinical features (2012)

To evaluate the application of a biological dressing composed of cultured epithelium of human umbilical cord derived epithelial cells seeded on a fibrin matrix in the healing of recurrent wounds in a patient with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (2012)