Dr. Dana R. Dillard is an Assistant Professor at Mississippi State University and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She has over 20 years of practice experience that includes medical/healthcare social work, school social work, and non-profit program design and implementation. She became involved with the burn community and fire service during a service-learning course in 2000 and developed an interest that drives her commitment to practice and research with these populations. Her experience spans the burn community to include recreational camp programs in both the United States and Canada, young adult retreats and family programs. She was also Co-Investigator on a $1 million Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration grant titled the Northwest Florida First Responder Resiliency Project, also known as the 2nd Alarm Project. Dr. Dillard is an active member of the American Burn Association and served as a co-chair on the Burn Survivor and Reintegration/Psychosocial Special Interest Group Committee for five years. She served as a board member for the International Association of Burn Camps for eight years and was the chair her final two years. She currently works with the International Association of Fire Fighters Foundation Burn Fund’s annual youth leadership program in Washington, D.C. Her research areas include the individual and systemic impact of burn injuries in relation to identity, aftercare/reintegration and program development/interventions; the fire service with attention to mental health/suicide and program development/interventions; the intersection of trauma—primary and vicarious—and identity; and the recreational camp setting within social work practice. She has presented at several professional conferences including: American Burn Association Annual Program Meeting, Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors Annual Conference, Council on Social Work Education Annual Program Meeting, Gerontological Society of America Annual Conference, International Conference on Community Mental Health, and John A. Boswick Burn And Wound Care Symposium, National Association of Social Workers, Society for Social Work and Research, and Southeastern Psychological Association.