John T Hugggins, MD - MUSC Health Rutledge Tower

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Dr. Steven Kahn is the Chief of Burn Surgery at MUSC. He led the team that established the South Carolina Burn Center at MUSC, which opened in 2020. The South Carolina Burn Center cares for patients of all ages and is the only inpatient burn center in the state of South Carolina. Dr. Kahn is regarded as an expert and a national leader in both pediatric and adult burn care. He served on the Board of Trustees of the American Burn Association (ABA) from 2021-2025 and as the ABA Program Committee Chair from 2022-2025. Kahn trained at the University of Rochester for general surgery residency and a 2-yr research fellowship, followed by additional clinical fellowships at Vanderbilt in burn surgery, critical care, and trauma/acute care surgery. He is board certified in both general surgery and surgical critical care. Dr. Kahn has provided care to thousands of burn patients and has performed over 3000 operations to treat burn injury (including but not limited to skin grafts, skin substitutes, skin flaps, scar revision, and regenerative medicine techniques). Dr. Kahn has also been a leader in developing minimally invasive burn treatments, laser scar therapy, paradigms for enhanced recovery after burn injury, and fluid restrictive resuscitation strategies. Kahn's main research interests are centered around firefighter safety, burn resuscitation, health economics, smoke inhalation injury, non-opiate pain control, wound healing, regenerative medicine, and burn reconstruction. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles and has received numerous research awards and significant grant funding for his work. He speaks nationally and internationally regarding these topics. He is an advocate for firefighter safety and serves as medical advisor for The South Carolina Association of Professional Fire Fighters and the International Association of Fire Fighters. Dr. Kahn participated in the development of FEMA-funded firefighter safety programs such as "It Happened in Seconds," regarding situational awareness, gear limitations, and burn injury awareness- and helped with drafting the South Carolina Firefighter’s Cancer Bill. Before moving to Charleston, Kahn received the Nashville Business Journal "Healthcare Heroes" Award in 2015 for his work regarding firefighter safety, followed by the Mobile Bay "40 Under 40 Award" in 2016. In 2022, he received the Charleston Health Care Heroes Award for his work in building the South Carolina Burn Center. In his free time, Kahn enjoys spending time with his wife and two children; he is also an avid fisherman and outdoorsman.

John W. Gnann, Jr. M.D. joined the MUSC Department of Medicine, division of infectious diseases, in 2013. Dr. Gnann was born in Walterboro, South Carolina and grew up in Savannah, Georgia. Following graduation from Davidson College and Duke University School of Medicine, Dr. Gnann completed his internal medicine residency and infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. At UAB, Dr. Gnann began to develop his career-long interest in clinical virology and antiviral chemotherapy. Fellowship was followed by a tour of duty in the U.S. Army where Dr. Gnann served as the chief of the infectious diseases service at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington. Dr. Gnann then re-located to Southern California where he completed a three-year postdoctoral research fellowship in virology and immunology at the Scripps Institute in La Jolla. At the completion of his postdoctoral fellowship, Dr. Gnann was recruited to return to UAB to join the infectious diseases faculty. During his 25 years at UAB, Dr. Gnann rose through the ranks to become a professor of medicine, pediatrics and microbiology. His research interests continued to focus on the diagnosis and treatment of viral infections, especially those caused by herpes viruses. He led numerous clinical trials related to development of antiviral therapy for infections caused by HSV and VZV. He also became interested in opportunistic viral infections occurring in immuno-compromised patients and led clinical investigations of hepatitis C in liver transplant recipients, RSV infections in bone marrow transplant patients, and BK virus disease in renal transplant recipients. In addition, Dr. Gnann developed expertise in vaccine research and was a principal investigator for studies related to VZV and anthrax vaccines. At UAB, he also served as the medical director of the 1917 (HIV) Clinic.In 2013, Dr. Gnann was recruited to move to Charleston and joined MUSC. At MUSC, Dr. Gnann continues to provide specialized care for persons living with HIV and for organ transplant recipients who experience infectious complications. He has recently accepted the role of medical director for the MUSC antimicrobial stewardship program.