Dr. Stephen Milner MB.BS, BDS, DSc, FRCS(Ed), FACS is the former Director of the Johns Hopkins Burn Center, Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also served as Director of the Michael D Hendrix Burn Research Center, Adjunct Professor Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and as an Honorary Civilian Consultant Advisor to the British Army in Plastic Surgery and Burns. Dr. Milner is a graduate of Guys Hospital Medical and Dental Schools. He trained in general surgery in London and at the Massachusetts General Hospital. After service as lieutenant colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps, where he served on active duty in Operation Desert Storm, he completed a plastic surgery residency at the University of Texas and the Shriners Burn Institute in Galveston. In 2010, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Glamorgan, UK in recognition for his work in burns. In 2012, he was awarded a Humanitarian Award from the James R. Jordan Foundation, and in 2013, was given the Sushruta-Guha Lectureship and medal in Plastic Surgery and Wound Healing from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Dr. Milner has written more than 120 peer reviewed articles amongst his numerous publications and is founding editor of one of the first open access journals, ePlasty.