About me
Taryn Travis, MD, is an attending physician in The Burn Center at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and an assistant professor of surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine. As a burn specialist, Dr. Travis specializes in acute and long-term burn care. Her practice encompasses critical care of the burn patient, surgical intervention for skin injuries, as well as later interventions for the scars that result from burn injury. She has a special interest in LASER scar revision to improve the function, symptoms, and appearance of patients with hypertrophic scarring from a variety of causes.
Dr. Travis received her medical degree from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California in 2010. She then joined MedStar Washington Hospital Center for a seven-year residency in general surgery, during which she spent two years as a burn surgery research fellow focusing on hypertrophic scarring. During her last year of training, she served as Chief Administrative Resident. Finally, she completed one year of advanced burn care training at MedStar Washington before joining the attending surgeon staff at The Burn Center.
Dr. Travis is involved in the education with regard to burn care of surgical residents, medical students, and other members of the community, including firefighters, paramedics, nurses, physician assistants, and other physicians. As a Cura Personalis Fellow at Georgetown, she guides medical students on their journey from student to physician. She is also an instructor for the Advanced Burn Life Support for the American Burn Association and Advanced Trauma Life Support courses for the American College of Surgeons.
Dr. Travis is an active member of the American Burn Association and The American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery. She also serves with the Emergency Preparedness Working Group of the MedStar Washington Hospital Center and is a member of the Subcommittee on Evaluation and Assessment of the curriculum of Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Philosophy of Care
“My personal experience as a family member of someone who was very badly burned is what has guided me to this specialty. When I was young, my father survived a large, life-threatening burn injury and was able to return to a life of family, hobbies, career, and fulfillment. The ability to empathize with the fear and uncertainty of patients with burn injuries, as well as their families, guides my approach every day.
“I’m dedicated to my profession and to my patients. The team I work with in The Burn Center at MedStar Washington Hospital Center accomplishes care I could never accomplish alone. The multidisciplinary approach to caring for burn injuries allows us to succeed in saving the lives of our patients and getting them back to enjoying those very lives.”
Clinical areas of focus
- Burn Reconstruction
- Burn Scars
- Burns
- Complex Wound Management
- Inhalation Injury
- Wound Care
Conditions and procedures
Procedures I perform
- Burn Reconstruction
- Complex Wound Management
- Laser Treatment Of Skin
- Scar Revision
- Scar Therapies
- Skin Graft
- Surgery For Hidradenitis Suppurativa
- Wound Care
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
- Carefirst Healthy Blue (HMO/POS)
- Innovation Health: Network Only Plus
- Medicaid - District of Columbia
- Aetna HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Carefirst Blue Preferred PPO
- Innovation Health: POS
- Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus
- Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice
- Carefirst BlueChoice HMO
- United Options (PPO) (includes Empire PPO)
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- Medicaid - Maryland
- Tricare for Life East
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- CareFirst Blue Card Program (Out-of-area BCBS plans)
- Tricare East Prime
- Cigna PPO and PPO Plus
- Carefirst BlueChoice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- CareFirst Administrators
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- United Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA
- United Navigate
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- United Choice Plus
- Kaiser Select
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- Innovation Health: PPO
- Aetna Choice POS & Choice POS II
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Cigna POS/Network POS
- United Group Medicare Advantage Plans
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- Kaiser Signature
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Traditional Medicare Fee for Service
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Innovation Health: POS Plus
- Cigna POS Open Access & Open Access Plus
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- Cigna EPO
- United Golden Rule
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO) |
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- Maryland Point of Service Plan (MPOS)
- Carefirst EPO
- HealthyBlue PPO
- I-SNP
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- Tricare East Select
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- United Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) & OCI Direct (HMO)
- Carefirst BlueChoice Opt Out Open Access
- United MD IPA Preferred (POS)
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs (HSCSN)
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Innovation Health: Indemnity
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Kaiser Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- Kaiser Select-Added Choice
- Innovation Health: Open POS II
- United Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- Virginia Premier
- Cigna Network Open Access
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan (USFHP)
- United Nursing Home Plan (C-SNP
- Aetna Open HMO/Open HMO Option/Open EPO Plus
- Innovation Health: HMO & EPO Plus
- Cigna HMO Open Access
- United MD IPA (HMO)
- United Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- HumanaChoice Honor’s plan PPO
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- United Mamsi Life & Health
- Cigna Choice Fund PPO
- Innovation Health: Open POS Plus
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- WellPoint Maryland
- Medicaid - Virginia
- Kaiser Medicare Plus
- United Select Plus (POS)
- United AARP Medicare Complete
- Carefirst BlueChoice Open Access
- D-SNP)
- United Erickson Advantage Plans
- United Choice
- Tricare Reserve Select
- Cigna Preferred Medicare
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- CareFirst NASCO
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- United GEHA (for all other states) Compass Rose
- Kaiser Flexible Choice
- United Optimum Choice
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network (VA CCN)
- Cigna HMO & Network (HMO)
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- CareFirst BC/BS Advantage Core/Enhanced
- United Student Resources
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- HumanaChoice PPO
- Kaiser HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- Cigna Indemnity
- United Core Essential (HMO)
- Aetna Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Police and Fire Clinic
- Federal Employee Program (Std/Basic PPO/Blue Focus)
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- First Health PPO
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
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Education
Board Certification: American Board of Surgery, Surgery
Fellowship Program: MedStar Washington Hospital Center (2018)
Residency Program: MedStar Washington Hospital Center (2017)
Medical School: Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (2010)