Specialties/Interests Clinical - late effects of burn injuries (dysfunction and deformity), acute burn
injuries, non-burn complex and non-healing wounds, scleroderma-related
surgical problems, skin cancer, applications of modern plastic surgical
techniques to problems related to burn injuries, facial reconstruction,
application of laser Doppler technology for the determination of burn depth Research - clinical acute burn research (the importance of hospitalizing burns
below the knee, use of fibrin glue in clinical burn practice, use of scanning laser
Doppler in the determination of burn wound depth), burn-related psychological
research Johns Hopkins Burn Center
Biography Robert J. Spence, M.D., FACS, an associate professor of plastic surgery at
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and assistant professor of
surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, is director of burn
reconstruction at the Johns Hopkins Burn Center. He is board-certified in
surgery and plastic surgery. After earning a medical degree at The Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine, Spence completed surgical training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital,
the National Cancer Institute and the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, as
well as training in plastic surgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. A former president of the Maryland State Plastic Surgery Society (The John
Staige Davis Society) and the Baltimore Academy of Surgeons, Spence also
is a member of the American Burn Association and the International Society
of Burn Injuries. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a
member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American
Association of Tissue Banks. | 
