Who We Are
Dr. Lee Hudson-Robert R. Penn Chair, Division Chief of BTACCS Surgery
Director, Center for Organogenesis Regeneration & Trauma
Professor in Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Benjamin Levi, M.D., is a Professor in the Department of Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He holds the Dr. Lee Hudson-Robert R. Penn Chair in Surgery and serves as Division Chief of Burn, Trauma, Acute and Critical Care Surgery. He specializes in acute and reconstructive burn surgery and scar reconstructive surgery.
Dr. Levi earned his medical degree at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He completed a residency in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Michigan Hospital. He received advanced training through a research fellowship in pediatric regenerative medicine at Stanford University and a clinical fellowship in surgical critical care and burn surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Shriners Hospitals for Children – Boston.
Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery, Dr. Levi joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2020. Previously, he was Director of the Burn/Wound and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory and Associate Director of Burn Surgery Service at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Levi’s research interests, which are funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American College of Surgeons, and the Department of Defense, include stem cell biology, heterotopic ossification, muscle fibrosis, tissue regeneration, wound healing and repair, and burn reconstruction outcomes.
Associate Professor in Surgery
Deborah Carlson, Ph.D., has contributed greatly to UT Southwestern, from her first assignment as a research scientist in 2000 to her current post of associate professor in the pediatrics and surgery departments. She has a Ph.D. from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology at State University of New York and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Dr. Carlson is an Associate Professor and Associate Vice Chair of Research in the Department of Surgery. She has investigated cardiac dysfunction and other topics, work that has been sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. She is active in professional organizations, including the American Burn Association and the International Shock Society, with both groups bestowing awards on her for her research. Dr. Carlson is an author of numerous publications, which have recently included articles on heart dysfunction during sepsis and on ways to improve outcomes after burn injury.