Department of Surgery
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Clinical Information

Specialties

Lee D Faucher, MD, FACS

Professor

  • Medical Director, Burn and Wound Healing Center

faucher@surgery.wisc.edu
(608) 265-9574

600 Highland Ave
MC 3236
Madison, WI 53792-7375

Education

  • MD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 1996
  • Surgical Residency, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, 1996-2001
  • Fellow, Burn Trauma, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2001-2002

Honors

Madison Magazine Top Docs 2016 Award Trauma 

Clinical Specialties

Dr. Faucher is certified by the American Board of Surgery, a member of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and the American Burn Association, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He specializes in the surgical treatment of trauma and burns, and surgical critical care.

Dr. Faucher provides a wide range of services including Trauma Surgery, Burn Surgery, Hidradenitis, Management of Complex Wounds.

Research Interests

Dr. Faucher’s research interests include burn and trauma epidemiology, the clinical aspects of burn and trauma care, and scientific and clinical aspects of wound healing.

Recent Publications

  • Pooled safety analysis of STRATA2011 and STRATA2016 clinical trials evaluating the use of StrataGraft® in patients with deep partial-thickness thermal burns.
    Holmes Iv JH, Cancio LC, Carter JE, Faucher LD, Foster K, Hahn HD, King BT, Rutan R, Smiell JM, Wu R, Gibson ALF
    Burns 2022 Jul 28;
    [PubMed ID: 35941023]

  • Lighting the Way for Necrosis Excision Through Indocyanine Green Fluorescence-Guided Surgery.
    Zajac JC, Liu A, Uselmann AJ, Lin C, Hassan SE, Faucher LD, Gibson AL
    J Am Coll Surg 2022 Nov 01; 235(5): 743-755
    [PubMed ID: 36102554]

  • Perioperative Multimodal Analgesia Reduces Opioid Use Following Skin Grafting in Nonintubated Burn Patients.
    Lennertz R, Zimmerman H, McCormick T, Hetzel S, Faucher L, Gibson A
    J Burn Care Res 2020 Nov 30; 41(6): 1202-1206
    [PubMed ID: 32353145]

  • An open-label, prospective, randomized, controlled, multicenter, phase 1b study of StrataGraft skin tissue versus autografting in patients with deep partial-thickness thermal burns.
    Holmes JH, Schurr MJ, King BT, Foster K, Faucher LD, Lokuta MA, Comer AR, Rooney PJ, Barbeau KF, Mohoney ST, Gibson ALF, Lynn Allen-Hoffmann B
    Burns 2019 Dec; 45(8): 1749-1758
    [PubMed ID: 31416637]

  • A Pediatric Burn Outpatient Short Stay Program Decreases Patient Length of Stay With Equivalent Burn Outcomes.
    Zens T, Yan A, Lee CW, Schmitz C, Faucher L, Gibson A
    J Burn Care Res 2018 Apr 20; 39(3): 353-362
    [PubMed ID: 28598952]

All Publications on PubMed