JEFFREY E. CARTER, MD, FACS, FABA

President, American Burn Association, Professor of Surgery, LSUHSC,
Director, UMC Trauma & Burn Services
Medical Director, LCMC Supply Chain,
University Medical Center New Orleans

Dr. Carter is a Professor of Surgery at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center and serves as the Director of Trauma and Burn Services at University Medical Center of New Orleans. He completed his general surgery training at Wake Forest University, followed by fellowships in Trauma and Surgical Critical Care and in Burn Care at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He later completed a third fellowship in applied learning and healthcare design at Wake Forest University before joining the trauma and burn faculty.

Dr. Carter has been credited with building a team-based simulation program and reducing sentinel events to zero across 80,000 consecutive surgical cases as a resident and leading numerous clinical trials. In 2017, he relocated to New Orleans to establish the region’s only burn center, which achieved ABA verification in just two years. He has since expanded the burn research program to more than $100 million in funding. Dr. Carter has received multiple teaching awards, the ABA Moyer Award, Womack Award, and was named a “Healthcare Hero” after contributing to a reduction in burn mortality in southern Louisiana by more than 50 percent. He currently serves as President of the American Burn Association and sits on several boards overseeing prehospital care.

His clinical and research interests primarily focus on education and the development of innovative technologies that improve value by enhancing access, efficiency, and health economics.

PROF. NADIA DEPETRIS

Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Azienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Italy President EBA, Executive Member 2025-2027, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Azienda Ospedaliera Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Italy

PROF. MILOMIR NINKOVIĆ

MD, PhD, Professor of Plastic Surgery, Head of Department for Plastic, Aesthetic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, International medical Center PRIORA, Ćepin, Croatia

He specialized in general surgery, completed a subspecialization in plastic surgery, and earned his master’s degree at the Sarajevo Medical Faculty, University of Sarajevo.

In May 1997, he won the first prize for the best project at the Congress of the European Association of Plastic Surgeons (EURAPS) in Amsterdam, and was also awarded the Theodor-Billroth Award by the Austrian Surgical Society. In 1998, Prof. Ninković was awarded the City of Innsbruck Prize for the most successful scientific research at the Leopold-Franzens University in Innsbruck, Austria. From November 2003 to December 31, 2023, Prof. Ninković headed the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, Hand Surgery and Burns at the Bogenhausen Hospital, Klinikum München. In February 2024, Prof. Ninković joined IMC Priora, becoming part of the medical team and assuming the role of Head of the Department of Plastic, Aesthetic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery. With this move, his decades of international experience were transferred to Slavonia, where he continues to shape new standards of excellence and educate the next generation of surgeons.

DOMINIQUE NAVET – POTOKAR

Interburns Lead Nurse, EBA, Profession Allied to Medicine Comittee Chair, France 

A Burns nurse (trained in France) and scrub nurse (diploma from Switzerland). She is the lead nurse for Interburns nursing training, worked in Burn care in France and in the UK and in many countries with less resources. She is in charge since its creation, of a 5-day interactive course ABC Advance Burn Course for Nurses, developed and delivered by an international faculty in 7 countries (Bangladesh, Ghana, Nepal, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, UAE) between 2016 and 2025. She is involved in Mentorship, training European Rapid Respons Team, online training. With a surgeon and an anaesthetist, they set up a Burns Unit in Lebanon and started treating patients in 2024.