Ms Leila Cuttle    Research Assistant

	Biography

Ms Cuttle is a PhD student and Research Assistant with the Royal Children's Hospital Burns Research Group (RCHBRG).

Ms Cuttle currently works in the laboratory of Assoc Prof Roy Kimble at the Royal Children's Hospital. Dr Roy Kimble is the clinical director of burns at the Royal Children's Hospital and is a paediatric/burns surgeon. She commenced work with the Royal Children's Hospital Burns Research Group in 2002. The main aims of the group include discovering new treatments to help burn wounds heal without scar and to compare currently available therapies.

In 2006 she enrolled for a PhD. The topic of her PhD is "First Aid and Alternative Treatments for Burn Injuries". Her project involves determining the optimum temperature, duration and delay for first aid and whether ice is effective. She will also determine if common alternative therapies (such as aloe vera and tea tree oil) are effective treatments for burns.

	Keywords
	Medical: Wound Healing, Medical: Children (Patients), Medical: Burns