About me
Shawn Tejiram, MD is an attending surgeon at The Burn Center at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in the Division of Trauma and Burn Surgery.
Dr. Tejiram specializes in burn injury, thermal injury to the skin, cold injury to the skin, electrical and chemical injuries, trauma to the skin, complex wounds, and major skin disorders with resultant skin loss such as Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis that requires significant wound care and ICU level care.
Dr. Tejiram received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Biomedical Sciences from the University of South Florida in 2008. He returned to complete his medical degree at the Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida in 2012. From there, he completed his General Surgery residency at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and MedStar Washington Hospital Center in 2018. During his residency, he participated in a research fellowship at the Firefighter’s Burn and Surgical Research Laboratory at The Burn Center at MedStar Washington Hospital Center where he developed his interest in burn injury and burn related care. From there, he went to northern California to pursue a Burn Surgery Fellowship at the University of California Davis Medical Center and Shriners Hospitals for Children Northern California. He then followed this up with additional training in a second fellowship in Trauma Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at the University of California Davis Medical Center.
It was during his time as a research fellow at The Burn Center that Dr. Tejiram developed an interest in burn related care. He had the opportunity to study blood clot formation in burned patients and observed changes in scar healing following pressure therapy. His other research projects included examining the safety profile of transfusion strategies in pediatric burn patients and used machine learning as a new technique to examine utilization during massive transfusion activations in trauma. Experiences like these have culminated in an extensive list of published academic work, including multiple manuscripts, book chapters, and academic presentations both domestically and internationally. He has been published in many reputable journals such as the Journal of Burn Care and Research, Journal of Surgical Research, and Surgical Infections. He is an active member of the American Burn Association.
Dr. Tejiram hopes that these experiences will help contribute to furthering advancements and new developments in burn care for burn injured patients.
Philosophy of Care
“During my training taking care of burn injured patients, I appreciated the multidisciplinary approach necessary to ensure good outcomes and healing following burn injury. I realized the acute surgical management, critical care, reconstruction, and rehabilitation of burn injured patients must all work in tandem during all parts of a patient’s care.
I remain dedicated to my patients to ensure that they receive the care that they need. I cannot do it alone - I am grateful to the multidisciplinary team that assists me with caring for every burn injured patient that comes through our program. We believe in a wholistic approach to care and recovery after these devastating injuries.”
Conditions and procedures
Procedures I perform
- Incision And Drainage Of Abscess
- Incision And Drainage Of Infected Wound
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Choice Fund PPO
- Jai Medical Systems - Maryland Health Choice
- MultiPlan, Inc
- Aetna Classic 5000
- OCI Direct (HMO)
- BCBS of Michigan (BCN Advantage,Security Blue, Freedom, Medicare PLUS Blue Group PPO)
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- First Health PPO
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- HUMANA/Choice Care Medicare Plans (Choice, Gold Choice)
- POS OA
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PLUS PPO
- Beech Street PPO
- Aetna Medicare Advantage PFFS Plan
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice 3-tier POS
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- Geisinger Medicare Advantage
- Optimum Choice & Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) Cardiac Global
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- Options PPO Cardiac Global
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans
- Cigna Preferred Medicare (HMO)
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan
- United Healthcare Choice Plus Cardiac Global
- Aetna Premier 200PD
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- IH-Open HMO
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Optima Family Care MCO - VA Medicaid MCO
- CareFirst EPO
- United Healthcare Navigate Cardiac Global
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Core Essential (HMO)
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- IH-Open POS II
- CareFirst Dual Prime HMO-SNP
- Advantra Platinum (PPO)
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Medicare FFS
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- IH-HMO
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- CareFirst Blue Card Program
- BlueChoice Open Access
- United Healthcare Choice
- TRICARE for Life East
- United Healthcare Options (PPO)
- Kaiser Permanente HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- United Student Resources
- AMERIVANTAGE/Amerigroup Community Care
- BCBS Out-of-State Medicare Plans (Blue Advantage)
- CIGNA SureFit (HMO)
- IH-Network Only Plus
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- CareFirst BlueChoice HMO
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- Magellan Complete Care of VA - VA Medicaid MCO
- Tricare Reserve Select
- Employee Health Plan
- Medicare Advantage - Advantra Value (PPO)
- Police and Fire Clinic
- Medicare Direct
- IH-PPO
- HighMark
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- Aetna Advantage 6350PD
- TRICARE East Prime
- Aetna Advantage 5750
- CIGNA Connect EPO
- IH-POS
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Advantage Core/Enhanced
- IH-Open POS Plus
- IH-Indemnity
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- IH-Open EPO Plus
- Anthem BCBS of VA Key Care POS/PPO/Indemnity
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- United Healthcare Community Plan - VA Medicaid MCO
- United Healthcare Select HMO-EPO/NPP Cardiac Global
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Basic
- Sentara Health
- IH-Open HMO Option
- Humana Medicare Advantage - PPO
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Aetna Advantage 6350
- CareFirst Community Health Plan of MD
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- HealthyBlue PPO
- Erickson Advantage Plans
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO)
- Maryland Physicians Care MCO
- United HealthCare Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- Aetna Classic 3500
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS)
- CIGNA EPO
- Kaiser Permanente Select Cardiac Global
- CareFirst FEP Blue Focus
- MD IPA (HMO) & MD IPA Preferred Cardiac Global
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD HMO
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs
- DC/MD SHOP QHP Small Business Plans
- First Health PPO
- CareFirst Blue Preferred PPO
- CareFirst Administrators
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Plus
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO, POS, PPO)
- CareFirst Federal Employee Program (Std. & Basic PPO)
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- United Healthcare Choice Cardiac Global
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- Humana Medicare Advantage - HMO Open Access
- Aetna Better Health of MD
- CareFirst NASCO
- IH-Open Network Only Plus
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Dual Adv
- Network OA
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- IH-POS Plus
- CareFirst Maryland Point of Service Plan
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- Choice POS
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (POS & POS OA)
- Humana Gold Plus HMO
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO) Cardiac Global
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- HumanaChoice Honor's plan PPO
- Private Fee-for-Service Plans (PFFS)
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- Choice POS II Open Access
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- Kaiser Permanente Signature - Added Choice
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue SNP
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Standard
- Aetna Better Health of VA
- UHC Passport
- NYC Medicare Advantage Plus
- Aetna Classic 5000PD
- TRICARE East Select
- HumanaChoice PPO
- Lasso Healthcare - Medicare Medical Savings Account
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- Navigate
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- Optimum Choice
- CIGNA HMO Open Access
- United Medicare Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PPO
- Private Health Care Systems (PPO)
- Aetna Basic
- Aetna HMO
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Alterwood Advanatge HMO & DSNP Plans
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (HMO)
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- OA Plus
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS Cardiac Global
- CIGNA PPO
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- Aetna VA Exchange
- Blue Choice Advantage
- CIGNA PPO Plus
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus
- CIGNA Indemnity
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- Kaiser Permaenete Signature - Added Choice Cardiac Global
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv. Special Needs Plans
- Choice POS II
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- IH-EPO Plus
- Kaiser Permanente Select - Added Choice
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Surgery, General Surgery
Fellowship: University of California Davis Health (2020)
Residency: Medstar Washington Hospital Center (2018)
Medical School: University of South Florida (2012)