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2006 PSEF Funded Program Recipients

The Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2006 PSEF funded research programs.

2006 PSEF Scientific Essay Contest Award Winners

The Annual Bernard G. Sarnat, MD Awards

Junior
Selahattin Ozmen, MD

  • Gazi University Medical School Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
  • The Impact of Gradual Blood Flow Increase on Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in the Rat Cremaster Microcirculation Model

Award underwritten by Bernard G. Sarnat, MD

Clinical Research Awards

Clinical Research Essay Category covers essay content that includes patient related conditions relative to plastic surgery practice.

Senior
Julia K. Terzis, MD, PhD

  • Eastern Virginia Medical School
  • Microsurgical Research Center
  • Restoration of Shoulder External Rotation in OBPP by Rerouting of Latissimus Dorsi and Teres Major

Junior
J. Peter Rubin, MD

  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Division of Plastic Surgery
  • Post-Bariatric Plastic Surgery: Patient Care Algorithms, Technical Advances, and Outcomes in an Academic Center

Investigator Awards

The Investigator Category awards prizes to medical students, nurses, therapists and physicians other than plastic surgeons who have conducted research that has cross-over applicability to plastic surgery.

First Place
Lisa R. Rubin, PhD

  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • Understanding Motivations for Breast Surgery: A Qualitative Comparison of Augmentation, Reduction, and Reconstruction Patients

Award underwritten by the D. Ralph Millard Plastic Surgical Society

Art & Science Essay

The content of these essays must reflect the theory, history, ethics or socio-economic issues related to the art & science of plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Matthew C. Camp, MD

  • Loma Linda University Medical Center
  • Division of Plastic Surgery
  • The Evolving Image of Plastic Surgery as a Profession: A Historical Perspective

Award underwritten by Integra Foundation

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2006 PSEF Directed Research Program Research Grant Awards

Joseph M. Serletti, MD

  • University of Pennsylvania Surgery
  • Breast Reconstruction and Augmentation Quality of Life

Peter G. Cordeiro, MD

  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • The Impact of Chest Wall Irradiation on Long-Term Patient Satisfaction and Health-Related Quality of Life Following Tissue Expander/Implant Reconstruction

Andrea Pusic, MD, MHS

  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • Breast Reconstruction Among African American Women: A Qualitative Investigation of Factors Influencing Reconstruction Decisions

It is anticipated these projects will run over the next twelve to twenty-four months. Once the projects are completed the investigators will prepare manuscripts for publication in plastic surgery/medical journals.

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2006 PSEF Basic Research Grants: Basic Science Embraces Innovation

Wound-Healing and Immunity Therapies and Physiology:

Elaine Kawano Horibe, MD

  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Project: Induction of Immunological Tolerance to Vascularized Skin

Mimi Leong, MD

  • Baylor College of Medicine
  • Project:Macrophage Dysfunction in Diabetic Wound Healing

Mario G. Solari, MD

  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Project: Overcoming Skin Immunogenicity in Transplantation Tolerance

Gene or Stem Cell Therapies for Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery:

Daniel J. Brown, MD

  • NYU School of Medicine
  • Project: Up-Regulation of Marrow-Derived Stem Cells in Distraction Osteogenesis: Circulating Progenitor Cells Participate in Generate Zone Callus Formation

Tateki Kubo, MD

  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Project: Neural Stem Cells Improve Muscle Preservation Following Denervation

Kurtis E. Moyer, MD

  • Duke University Medical Center
  • Project: Human Adipose Derived Adult Stem Cells as an Engineered Bone Substitute for Segmental Osseous Defects

Hyun Duck Nah, DMD, PhD

  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Project: In utero gene delivery for rescue of cleft palate in a TGF-beta3 knockout mouse

Alex K. Wong, MD

  • University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
  • Project: Improving the ex-vivo expansion of adipose tissue derived stem cells by modulating regulators of cellular senescence

Tissue-Engineering and Innovative Surgical Techniques:

Eri Fukaya, MD

  • University of California, San Francisco
  • Project: MRA of Septocutaneous Perforators for Free Fibula Flaps

Ben Horner, MD

  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Project: Vascularized Skin Retransplantation

Peter R. Letourneau, MD

  • University of Nevada
  • Project: Engineering Bone and Cartilage from ASCs and Scaffolds

Ian F. Lytle, MD

  • University of Michigan
  • Project: In vivo Conditioning of Tissue Engineered Tendon Constructs Produced in Vitro

Dennis McMahon, MD

  • Stanford University Hospital
  • Project: Inside-Out Tissue Engineering for Hepatic Replacement

Amestos Papadopoulos, MD

  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Project: PEG Hydrogels to Engineer Cartilage

Bret Schipper, MD

  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Project: Ultrasonic Harvest of Adipose Tissue for Cell Therapies

Jonathan M. Winograd, MD

  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Project: Photochemical Sealing of Peripheral Neurorrhaphy

Basic Science Physiology and Pathophysiology:

Joan Elizabeth Lipa, MD

  • University of Toronto
  • Project: Pathogenesis of Radiation-Induced Capsular Contracture

Babak J. Mehrara, MD

  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  • Project: Improved Ischemic Flap Survival using Oral HMG-CoA Reductase Inhibitors

David B. O’Gorman

  • Lawson Research Institute, St. Joseph’s Health Centre
  • Project: IGF-II/M6PR-mediated bio-regulation of growth factor availability: a novel approach to the biology of non-healing wounds

Pierre B. Saadeh, MD

  • New York University School of Medicine
  • Project: Elucidating the intracellular signaling events responsible for strain-dependent bone formation

Darren M. Smith, MD

  • Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
  • Project: Osteogenesis in ASCs by Co-Culture with Infant Dura

Stephen R. Sullivan, MD

  • University of Washington
  • Project: The Wnt pathway and biomaterials in surgical wound regeneration

PSEF and its Research and Education staff thank all the Basic Research Grants Reviewers who gave so generously of their time and effort in carefully evaluating all 63 proposals submitted, and selecting the above for funding as this year's PSEF Basic Research Grantees.

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