Our People
Leadership Team
Our leadership team is employed at Children’s Hospital Colorado, working primarily with our Burn Program, and works year-round to support our Burn Camps and aftercare programs.
Trudy Boulter, OTH CHT is Program Director for the Children’s Hospital Colorado Burn Camps Program. Trudy is a Pediatric Occupational Therapist specializing in burn care, upper extremity trauma and congenital anomalies for over 20 years. She has worked in the burn camps program since 1991 under the tutelage of Marion Doctor, a pioneer in the establishment of Burn Camps Nationwide. Trudy is an active member of the American Burn Association, International Association of Burn Camps and the American Camping Association. She is a certified burn therapist on the burn team at Children’s Hospital Colorado and is dedicated to the development of standards and programs that enhance the growth and development of young people and their families throughout their development into adulthood.
Trudy has been Camp Director since 2011 and actively involved in the CHCOBCP since 1990 when she first began seeing a few burn patients on her caseload as an Occupational Therapist. Trudy held the position of Chair of the International Association of Burn Camps (IABC) for 10 years, recently completing her commitment.
Alec Rhodes
Board President
John Bauknight
Board Vice President
Ben Dennis
Board Treasurer
Patrick Dennis
Board Secretary
Patrick Hynes
Board Member
Caitlin McGonagle
Board Member
Medical Team
Our Burn Camps Program are staffed with a multidisciplinary medical team to support all aspects of our campers needs at all phases of their injury, recovery, and aftercare. Our medical team consists of occupational and physical therapists, nurses, social workers, psychologists, child life specialists, and even art therapists. This team supports our staff, families, and campers. Every effort is made to address a camper’s individual medical and therapy needs. The campers with the greatest needs are generally seen on a daily basis for range of motion or scar massage, as well as to help them with pressure or splinting needs.
Referring Burn Centers
Our Burn Camps Program is affiliated with several referring burn centers around the US as well as Internationally (see Referring Burn Centers tab). We bring in medical professionals (often nurses or therapists) from these burn centers to participate as counselors during our camp programs. It is important for these medical professionals to see our camps, and their campers, in progress. These professionals are then able to return to their centers to share about the magic and healing of camp to their teams and other families.
Firefighters
Firefighters have long been part of our Camps program. The Denver Fire Fighters Charitable Foundation has been a longtime supporter of and generous donor to our program. Often, fire fighters are the first responders on the scene of a fire and get our kids to safety. These first responders then send them on to the hospital and never know the outcome of the situation. By providing the opportunity for firefighters to come to camp as counselors, and to see the progress and healing of our young burn survivors, it is often equally as healing and impactful to them.
Community Volunteers
As outlined above, our Burn Camps Program are intentionally staffed with medical providers from our referring burn centers that accompany their campers and act as camp counselors and professional camp staff from Cheley Colorado Camps. Our summer camp program has two counselors positions available each year for burn survivors, as well as one to two positions open for someone within the community that brings a special talent to our camps program. These positions are filled on a case by case basis by our Burn Camps Director.