Clinical/Research Interests

Clinical Program: Dr. Palmieri treats patients with acute burn injury, inhalation injury and soft tissue disorders (toxic epidermal necrolysis, meningococcemia, traumatic tissue loss) at both UC Davis Medical Center (adults) and Shriners Hospital for Children of Northern California (children). She also performs burn reconstruction for both adults and children after burn injury. UC Davis admits adult patients from Northern California, Nevada and adjacent western states. Shriners Hospital admits children from the western U.S., Mexico and the U.S. Territories. Together, the programs admit more than 600 burn patients per year and see several thousand patients in their burn clinics. The burn center treatment philosophy is a team approach: professionals from multiple disciplines (nursing, respiratory therapy, nutrition, occupational therapy, physical therapy, child life, psychologists and pharmacists) working together to assure that each patient obtains the best outcome possible.

Research: Dr. Palmieri's research focus is analysis of outcomes after burn injury, including both the immediate physical and long-term psychological effects of burn injury on patient quality of life. She has received funding from the Department of Defense to study the impacty of limiting blood transfusions on burn survival and infection rates and develop an infrastructure for burn outcomes research. In addition, she studies how the body deals with acute burn stress (the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal response) after burn injury, and the long-term psychosocial impact of burn injury in both children and the elderly). Dr. Palmieri is one of the leaders of the Burn Multicenter Trials Group, which brings burn centers together to share information and to perform meaningful outcomes research.

Dr. Palmieri is a journal reviewer for Critical Care Medicine, the Journal of Burn Care and Research, and the Journal of Surgical Research.

Dr. Palmieri is currently the Secretary Chief of Staff; Chair, Intensive Care Unit Committee and is a member of the Peer Review Committee, Quality of Care Steering Committee, Quality of Care and Patient Safety Committee, Self-Testing Accreditation Committee, as well as the Medical Executive Committee. In addition, Dr. Palmieri is nationally and internationally known by her participation on the American Burn Association (ABA) Board of Trustees and International Association of Fire Fighters Burn Foundation Board of Medical Advisors as well as on the Research Committee for the International Society for Burn Injury. She is currently the Chair of the ABA Program Committee and a member of the ABA Multicenter Trials Group Steering Committee, Fire Fighters Burn Institute; Fundamentals of Disaster Management Committee and the Vice-Chair for the Adult MCCKAP Committee, both of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

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Select Recent Publications:

Palmieri TL, Alderson TS, Ison D, O'Mara MS, et al. Pediatric soup scald burn injury: etiology and prevention. Journal of Burn Care and Research. 2008;29:114-8.

Palmieri TL, London JA, O'Mara MS, Greenhalgh DG. Analysis of admissions and outcomes in verified and nonverified burn centers. Journal of Burn Care and Research. 2008;29:208-12.

Palmieri TL, Lee T, O'Mara MS, Greenhalgh DG. Effects of a restrictive blood transfusion policy on outcomes in children with burn injury. Journal of Burn Care and Research. 2007;28:65-70.

Palmieri TL. Journal Editors Forum. Journal of Burn Care and Research. 2007;28:622-6.

Palmieri TL. Research Funding Opportunities. Journal of Burn Care and Research. 2007;28:627-30.

Palmieri TL. Burn Research State of the Science: Introduction. Journal of Burn Care and Research. 2007;28:544-5.