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Division of Plastic Surgery Division of Plastic Surgery

Grand Rounds

Division of Plastic Surgery Basic and Clinical Science Conference

Our education sessions are hybrid.

Time: Wednesdays 7:30 am - 8:30 am (PST)

Please email Pamela Lugo for the Zoom meeting password

Join now via Zoom

CME credits awarded through UC San Diego School of Medicine


 Visiting Professors

Division of Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds conferences includes distinguished professors from various plastic surgery visiting professor programs:

  • American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons (ACAPS)
  • The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ASAPS)
  • The American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons, (ASMS)
  • American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS)
  • American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) 
  • California Society of Plastic Surgeons (CSPS)
  • International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS)
  • The Plastic Surgery Foundation (PSF)

Contact Information

Pamela Lugo
plugo@health.ucsd.edu
(619) 543-5887

Please contact Pamela if you would like to present a Grand Rounds lecture or to be notified of upcoming Grand Round lectures.

2020 Visiting Professors

May 27, 2020

James C. Grotting, MD

James C. Grotting, MD,
Chair of the American Board of Plastic Surgery, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, and Past President of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Presented: “Precision and Finesse in Breast Reduction and Mastopexy” and “Facial Rejuvenation: An Anatomic Approach and Lessons Learned”

 


April 1, 2020

Salah Rubayi, MD, FACS

Rod Rohrich, MD, FACS
Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery-Baylor College of Medicine
Past Chair/Distinguished Teaching Professor of Plastic Surgery-UTSW
Founding Partner-Dallas Plastic Surgery Institute

Presented: “Becoming Consistent in Rhinoplasty” and “Social Media – How it is Changing Plastic Surgery Today”

 


February 14, 2020

Salah Rubayi, MD, FACS

Lisa David, MD, MBA
Chair and Professor
Program Director
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Wake Forest University

Surgical Grand Rounds: "Craniosynostosis: Delicate and Dynamic Interventions"

Annual Research Symposium Key Note Address: "Dynamic Force on the Skull for the Treatment of Synostosis: The History of Spring Assisted Surgery"


January 15, 2020

Geoffrey R Keyes, MD, FACS
Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of Plastic Surgery
University of Southern California Keek School of Medicine

Presented: "An Integrated Approach to Rhinoplasty" and "Maximizing Consistency in Rhinoplasty and Avoiding Revisions"


January 8, 2020

Salah Rubayi, MD, FACSPeter C Neligan, MB, FRCS (I), FRCSC, FACS
Professor of Sugery
Division of Plastic Surgery
University of Washington

Presented: "Useful Peddled Perforator Flaps" and "Advancement in the Management of Lymphedema"

2019 Visiting Professors

December 18, 2019

Howard N Langstein, MD, FACSHoward N Langstein, MD, FACS
Professor and Chief, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
University of Rochester Medical Center
Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York

Presented: "Improving Outcomes in Breast Reconstruction: My Modifications to Implant and Autologous Techniques" and "Sensible Abdominal Wall Reconstruction for Plastic Surgeons"


October 9, 2019

James E Zins, MD, FACSJames E Zins, MD, FACS
Chairman, Department of Plastic Surgery
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Professor, Department of Surgery
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of CWRU

Presented: "Demystifying the Facelift" and "A Graded Approach to Lower Lid Blepharoplasty"


September 25, 2019

Ahmad Saad, MDAhmad Saad, MD
UC San Diego Div of Plastic Surgery Program Graduate
Saad Plastic Surgery
Barcelona, Spain

Presented: "Migraine Surgery: Evidence and Experience" and "High Definition Liposculpture Using Power Assisted Liposuction (PAL) Technology in Men & Women"

April 24, 2019

Daniel Del Vecchio, MD, MBADaniel Del Vecchio, MD, MBA
Professor of Surgery, Plastic Surgery
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Presented: Fact vs. Fiction, The Science of Fat Transplantation and Composite Breast Augmentation - the Combine Use of Implants and Fat


January 23, 2019

William Kuzon, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACSWilliam Kuzon, MD, PhD, FRCSC, FACS
Professor of Surgery, Plastic Surgery
Associate Program Director
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Presented: "Comprehensive Care for Transgender patients" and "Gender Confirming Surgery"


January 9, 2019

Patrick Garvey, MD, FACS

Patrick Garvey, MD, FACS
Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas

Presented: "Microsurgical Breast Reconstruction"

2018 Visiting Professors

October 3, 2018

Bauback Safa, MD, MBA, FACS

Bauback Safa, MD, MBA, FACS
The Buncke Clinic, San Francisco, CA
Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
Division of Plastic Surgery 
Stanford University
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

Presented: "Replant Revisited:  Historical Highlights, Advancing the Limites, Techniques and Tips, Bridging the Nerve Gap, Challenging Replants and Free Flaps"


August 8, 2018

Michael S. Wong, MD

Michael S. Wong, MD
Director, Body Contouring After Weight Loss
Residency Program Director of Plastic Surgery
Professor, Department of Surgery
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA

Presented: "Refinements in Post-Bariatric Body Contouring:  Tissue Preserveration and Local Tissue Rearrangement and Sternal Plating:  The Role of Rigid Fixation"


August 6, 2018

Carlos Roxo, MD

Carlos Roxo, MD
Chief of Plastic Surgery Service
Andaraj Federal Hospital
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Presented: "Post Bariatric Plastic Surgery"

 


 May 30, 2018

Derrick C. Wan, MD

Derrick C. Wan, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Surgery
Director of Maxillofacial Surgery, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Endowed Faculty Scholar, Child Health Research Institute at Stanford University
Hagey Family Faculty Scholar in Stem Cell Research and Regenerative Medicine
Stanford Univeristy Medical Center 
Stanford, CA

Presented: "Don't Jump to Malocclusions" and "Unraveling Mechanisms of Mandibular Distraction"


April 18, 2018

Salah Rubayi, MD, FACS

Salah Rubayi, MD, FACS
Chairman, Dept of Surgery
Chief, Pressure Ulcer Management Service
Professor of Clinical Surgery
Division of Plastic Surgery
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Presented: "Comprehensive Management of Pressure Ulcers" and "Heterotopic Ossification in Spinal Injury Etiliology, Pathology and Management"


March 21, 2018

Dr. William Umansky

William Umansky, MD
Umansky Medical Center for Plastic Surgery
La Jolla, California
Past President, California Society of Plastic Surgeonsry
Past President, San Diego Plastic Surgery Society
San Diego, CA

Presented: "Pearls from Private Practice" and "Being a Happy Plastic Surgeon"


January 10, 2018

Christopher R. Forrest, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS

Christopher R. Forrest, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS
Professor, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Department of Surgery, University of Toronto
Chief, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Medical Director, The Centre for Craniofacial Care and Research

Presented: "Planes, Trains and Automobiles: Application of 3D Technology, Surgical Simulation and Robotics in Pediatric Craniofacial Surgery" and "Surgical Correction of Hypertelorism and Orbital Malposition"

2017 Visiting Professors

October 20, 2017

Fu-Chan Wei, MD, FACS

Fu-Chan Wei, MD, FACS
Surgeon, Innovator, and Leader
Chang Gung Microsurgery Center

Presented: "Avoiding Unfavorable Results in Microsurgical Head and Neck Reconstruction" and "Developing a microsurgical center at Chang Gung and Vascularized fibula reconstruction of segmental mandibular and maxillary defect"


October 17, 2017

Jeffrey Janis, MD, FACS

Jeffrey Janis, MD, FACS
Professor of Plastic Surgery, Neurosurgery,
Neurology, and Surgery
Executive Vice Chairman, Department of Plastic Surgery
Chief of Plastic Surgery, University Hospitals
President-Elect, American Society of Plastic Surgeons
Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Presented: "The Surgical Treatment of Migraine Headaches" and "Complications of Lower Extremity Reconstruction"


August 16, 2017

Daniel C. Mills, MD, FACS

Daniel C. Mills, MD, FACS
Immediate Past President, ASAPS
Past President CSPS
Aesthetic Plastic Surgical Institute

Presented: "TASPA My Way"

 


April 26, 2017

Anureet Bajaj, MD

Anureet Bajaj, MD
PSF Visiting Professor

Presented: "Microvascular in Private Practice" and "Ethics of Social Media"

 

 


January 11, 2017

David A. Staffenberg, MD, ScD (Hon), FACS Professor

David A. Staffenberg, MD, ScD (Hon), FACS Professor
Plastic Surgery, Neurosurgery & Pediatrics Vice Chair,
Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery
Chief of Pediatric Plastic Surgery
Craniofacial Surgery
NYU Langone Medical Center

Presented: "Demystifying Midface Osteotomies" and "The 'New' Gold Standard of Craniopagus Separation: The rationale, development and success of the staged separation"

2016 Visiting Professors

November 16, 2016

Hiroshi Mizuno, D Med Sci

Hiroshi Mizuno, D Med Sci
Professor and Chief of the Department of Plastic Surgery
Jutendo University in Tokyo

Presented: "Role of Adipose-Derived Stem Cells in Plastic and Regenterative Surgery"

 


October 20, 2016

Steven Teitelbaum, MD, FACS

Steven Teitelbaum, MD, FACS
Associate Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery,
UCLA School of Medicine
President, California Society of Plastic Surgeons
President, Aesthetic Surgery Education and Research Foundation

Presented: "Preventing and Managing the Unhappy Breast Augmentation Patient" and " Shaped Breast Implants: Do They Have a Role Today?"


September 28, 2016

Dr. Julie Park

Dr. Julie Park
Associate Professor and Director of Breast Reconstruction
University of Chicago Medicine & Biological Sciences

Presented: "Is preoperative mapping of perforators necessary in microsurgical abdominal autologous breast reconstruction: An intraoperative algorithm for abdominal flap choice" and "Beyond the DIEP: Tips and Pitfalls in Superficial Inferior Epigastric Perforator Flap breast reconstruction"


June 22, 2016

Dr. Eduardo Gongora

Dr. Eduardo Gongora
Chief, The Genesis Clinic and Spa
B.C. Mexico

Presented: "Circular Abdominalplasty in Body Contouring"

 

 


May 16, 2016

Ming-Huei Cheng, MD, MBA, FACS

Ming-Huei ChengMD, MBA, FACS
Vice President, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

Presented: "Vascularized Lymph Node Flap Transfer for Upper and Lower Limbs Lymphedema"

 


April 13, 2016

Dr. Frank Lista, MD, FRCSC

Dr. Frank Lista, MD, FRCSC
Medical Director and Founder
Plastic Surgery Clinic in Toronto

Presented: "Vertical Scar Breast Reduction: The 10 Key Steps to Success" and "Lemon Juice and Optimism Bias: How Surgeons Make Mistakes"

 


February 17, 2016

W.P. Andrew Lee, MD

W.P. Andrew Lee, MD
Professor and Chairman of Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
John Hopkins University School of Medicine

Presented: "Combined Injuries in the Upper Extremity" and "Advances and Challenges in Vascularized Composite Allo-transplantation"

2014-15 Visiting Professors

September 23, 2015

Dr. Raman Mahabir

Dr. Raman Mahabir
Chief, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Mayo Clinic in Arizona
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Presented: "Chest Wall Tumors and Reconstruction" and "An Approach to Research Study Design and Critical Appraisal of the Literature"


March 18, 2015

Jeffrey E. Janis, MD, FACS

Jeffrey E. Janis, MD, FACS
Professor, Department of Plastic Surgery
The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH
Department of Plastic Surgery

Presented: "Clinical Cases in Complex Abdominal Wall Reconstruction" and "The Surgical Treatment of Migraine Headaches"


February 18, 2015

Mary H. McGrath, MD, MPH

Mary H. McGrath, MD, MPH
Professor of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery Associate Chair for Quality and Safety, Department of Surgery
University of California San Francisco

Presented: "Communicating with Difficult Patients"


January 28, 2015

William P. Adams, Jr, MD

William P. Adams, Jr, MD
Private Plastic Surgery Practice
Dallas, Texas
Associate Clinical Professor of Plastic Surgery
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Presented: "The Process of Breast Augmentation- Planning and Technique" and "Capsular Contracture"


June 4, 2014

Dr. Gregory E. Lankin

Dr. Gregory E. Lankin
Chief of Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery
Director of the Craniofacial center
University Hospitals *UH) Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital
Assistant Professor, Plastic Surgery, Case Wester Reserve University School of Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Case Wester Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, Ohio

Presented: "Vascular Anomalies: Categorizations, Evaluation & Treatment" and "Craniofacial Surgeries: From Terrier to Current Concepts"