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

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
  • Surgical Residency, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Fellow, Burn Trauma, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

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

  • Understaffed and overworked: The stark reality of acute care surgeon staffing in the United States, an Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter study.
    Murphy PB, Coleman JJ, Wilson DJ, Maring M, Gellings J, Biesboer E, Kamine TH, Mukherjee K, Bonne S, Boltz MM, Winfield RD, Dumas RP, Kurle J, Guzman-Curtis R, Sciarretta JD, Maqbool B, Morse BC, Cripps MW, Gondek S, Barmparas G, Lilienstein J, Nahmias J, Faucher L, Bayouth CV, Egodage T, Marie Knowlton L, Berne JD, Fasanya C, Shaddix M, Jacobson LE, Farrell MS, Fernandez LG, Manning BM, Martin RS, Kirsch JM, Rakitin I, Englehart MS, Montgomery SC, Blondeau B, Emigh B, McKenzie K, Taghavi S, Tatebe LC, Cunningham KW, de Moya MA, ACS Staffing Authorship Group
    J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2025 Jul 04;
    [PubMed ID: 40611385]

  • Is It the Holy Grail or Snake Oil?
    Gibson ALF, Faucher LD
    Ann Surg 2025 Apr 01; 281(4): 559-560
    [PubMed ID: 39360408]

  • 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 Dec; 48(8): 1816-1824
    [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]

All Publications on PubMed