Richard Baynosa, MD FACS is a Tenured Professor and Inaugural Chair of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV. He serves as the Fellowship Director for Complex Breast, Microsurgical, and Robotic Reconstructive Surgery and has pioneered several advanced techniques in the field. Dr. Baynosa holds multiple leadership positions, including Chair of the Department of Surgery at University Medical Center of Southern Nevada. With a robust background in academic and clinical medicine, he has contributed extensively to research, education, and innovation in plastic surgery, holding key roles in national committees and editorial boards.

Dr Juan Berner is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Plastic Surgery at The University of Texas Health San Antonio.
He has an interest in complex limb, head and neck and breast reconstruction.
Academically, his doctoral research at the University of Oxford has focused on improving the care of patients with open fractures worldwide.

Paul S. Cederna, M.D. is the Robert Oneal Professor of Plastic Surgery, Chief of the Section of Plastic Surgery, and Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan who specializes in reconstruction of complex wounds. Academically, Dr. Cederna  has a very active research enterprise and has received over $52,000,000 in research funding, authored over 425 scientific manuscripts, published 35 book chapters, and presented his work over 900 times at national and international meetings.

Academic Achievements:
Current Position: Professor of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine.
Program Leadership: Course Director for the Basic and Advanced Microsurgery Training Center and Program Director of the Integrated Craniofacial, Skull Base, and Reconstructive Microsurgery Fellowship.
Publications:
-70 peer-reviewed publications across various topics, including craniofacial and reconstructive microsurgery, breast reconstruction, and head and neck surgery, with works featured in journals such as Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, World Neurosurgery, and the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery.
Expertise:
Expertise in Reconstructive Microsurgery, including craniofacial/skull base microsurgery, head and neck reconstruction, autologous breast reconstruction, lymphatic surgery, and limb salvage.
Awards:
- Recipient of **Best Case/Best Save Awards 5 times** at the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery (ASRM) Annual Meetings (2015, 2018, 2020, 2021, and 2023) for outstanding case presentations, showcasing advanced skills in reconstructive microsurgery.

Dr. David W Chang  is a Ruth Hanna Simms Foundation Professor of SurgeryProfessor and the Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the Director of Microsurgery Fellowship, and the Director of the Comprehensive Center of Excellence for Lymphatic Diseases at the University of Chicago Medicine. Dr. Chang has dedicated 30 years in the field of reconstructive surgery for cancer patients, and have developed an international reputation as a leader, a pioneer, and an innovator in cancer reconstruction. Dr. Chang has particularly been instrumental in recent surge of interest in microsurgical treatment of lymphedema with procedures such as lymphovenous bypass and vascularized lymph node transfer. He is a recipient of the Godina Traveling Scholar Award(2005) and the Buncke Lectureship(2019) from the American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery(ASRM). He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers  and book chapters.  He  has served on the editorial board of numerous leading medical journals including Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. He has served on the Board of Directors for American Society of Plastic Surgery. He has served as a President of the ASRM (2017), the World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery(2019-2021), and the Midwestern Association of Plastic Surgeons(2023-4).

Dr. Wei F. Chen is a distinguished surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, renowned for his expertise in reconstructive microsurgery and supermicrosurgery. As a pioneer in lymphedema surgery, he has developed innovative techniques now adopted globally at leading medical centers. His groundbreaking research has linked Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases to "lymphedema of the brain," offering new hope to patients with previously intractable conditions.

With over 290 invited lectures and live surgical demonstrations worldwide, Dr. Chen is a sought-after speaker and educator. His contributions to lymphology have advanced the science and practice of the field, solidifying his reputation as a leader in both clinical practice and research.

I am an Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. I completed my plastic surgery residency at University of Virginia and microsurgery fellowship at University of Texas-Southwestern. My clinical practice includes general plastic surgery, oncologic reconstruction, microsurgery, limb salvage, body contouring surgery, and complex wounds.

Professor
Chief of Pediatric Hand, Peripheral Nerve, and Microvascular Surgery
Director, Basic and Translational Peripheral Nerve Research Lab
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Dr Chim is a Professor of Plastic Surgery and Neurosurgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine. His area of expertise is limb salvage, brachial plexus and complex peripheral nerve surgery.

Min-Jeong Cho is an assistant professor and program director for microsurgery fellowship in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. She specializes in breast cancer reconstruction and lymphedema.

Mihye Choi, MD
Dr Choi completed plastic surgery training at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York after general surgery residency at Harvard Beth Israel Hospital and a research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She joined faculty at the Institute of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery at New York University, and she is currently Associate Professor of Hansjörg Wyss Depart-ment of Plastic Surgery at NYU School of Medicine. Her practice focuses on breast reconstruction, and she has authored numerous peer reviewed publications on this subject.

Division Chief of Plastic Surgery at VCU Health
Reconstructive Microsurgeon specializing in oncologic reconstruction and limb salvage

Dr. Joani Christensen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plastic Surgery at the University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center. She specializes in microvascular reconstruction from head to toe and has a particular interest in breast reconstruction and the surgical treatment of lymphedema.

Dr. Carrie Chu is an Associate Professor in Plastic Surgery at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where she specializes in breast reconstruction and the surgical treatment of lymphedema.
She oversees operations for the Center for Reconstructive Surgery, the outpatient ambulatory facilities for plastic surgery patients at MD Anderson.
She is also currently the current President of the Houston Society of Plastic Surgeons.

Peter G. Cordeiro, MD, FACS is Professor of Surgery at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.  He is also currently the William G. Cahan Chair in Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where he was Chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery for 15 years from 2001-2016.

Plastic Surgeon w/nerve surgery expertise.

Washington Nerve Institute, McLean, VA, USA
Clinical Professor of Surgery, George Washington University

www.DucicMD.com

Katie Egan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado. She is the Director of Clinical Research and runs a grant-funded clinical outcomes lab focusing on breast reconstruction outcomes, practice efficiency, and education. In addition, she has a busy microsurgical practice focused on breast reconstruction, lymphatic reconstruction, and trunk reconstruction.

Dr. Erdmann is a tenured Professor of Surgery at Duke Health in Durham, NC (USA). He is covering a broad-spectrum of reconstructive plastic surgery including microsurgery. He performed the first abdominal wall transplantation in conjunction with a small bowel transplant from the same donor in the Carolinas in 2018.

Primary Appointment:

Distinguished Professor of Plastic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering
Founding Chair, Department of Plastic Surgery
Bruce F. Connell Endowed Chair in Plastic Surgery
The University of California, Irvine
Orange, California

Education: University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
B.S., Psychobiology, June 1980

University of Southern California School of Medicine
Los Angeles, California
M.D., Medicine, June 1985

Postgraduate Training:

1985 – 1990 Los Angeles County / University of Southern California
Medical Center
Los Angeles, California
Residency PPG I – V, General Surgery

1990 – 1993 The Johns Hopkins Hospital / University of Maryland
Combined Programs
Baltimore, Maryland
Residency PPG VI – VIII, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

11/1991 – 02/1992 Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Service Systems
(Shock Trauma)
Baltimore, Maryland
PPG VII, Craniofacial – Microvascular Surgery

07/1992 – 10/1992 Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Service Systems
(Shock Trauma)
Baltimore, Maryland
PPG VIII, Craniofacial - Microvascular Surgery

Anton Fries MD PhD is Associate Professor and Chief of Plastic Surgery at UT Health San Antonio, TX. He served for 20 years as a Commando in the Royal Navy including two tours of duty to Afghanistan. He completed his microsurgical fellowship at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, and his PhD in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation at the United States Army Institute of Surgical Research. He established the Lymphedema Surgical Service at UT San Antonio in 2020. He is Clinical Head of Missions for the Charity Operation Restore Hope (Australia). He spends his free time making large donations to Italian motorcycle manufacturers.

Board certified plastic surgeon in Japan. Completed lymphatic surgery fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA. Current microsurgery fellow at Corewell Health Beaumont University Hospital, USA.

Dr. David Greenspun is the Chief of Plastic Surgery at Greenwich Hospital, in Greenwich, CT, with specialization in breast reconstruction. He has a particular focus on aesthetic results and complex microsurgery, including lumbar artery perforator flaps and multi-flap procedures.

Geoffrey G. Hallock, M.D.  CV

Just a regular still-working microsurgeon who is not a nanomicrosurgeon, and never will be. But much can still be done with my passion, and that is the promotion of the “perforator flap” concept,” so done these many years.

Dr Siba Haykal MD PhD FRCSC FACS serves as the Section Chief of Reconstructive Oncology at Yale School of Medicine , Yale New Haven Hospital and Smilow Cancer Centre. She is the director of the microsurgery fellow. She has clinical interests in breast, head and neck and lymphedema reconstruction. She also runs a laboratory focusing on tissue engineering of vascularized free flaps.

Olivia Ho, MD MMSc MPH FRCSC FACS

Current Workplace: Mayo Clinic Florida

Fellowships:
1) Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University
2) Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan

Residency: University of Toronto

Suzanne M. Inchauste, MD is an Assistant Professor and Director of Lymphedema Surgery at University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, USA. My practice includes breast reconstruction, extremity sarcoma reconstruction, facial reanimation, and lymphatic surgery.

Dr. Karly Autumn Kaplan, M.D. is a board-certified plastic surgeon specializing in reconstructive microsurgery.  Dr. Kaplan currently serves as Chief of the Plastic Surgery Department at Kaiser Permanente in Sacramento, CA where she has been in practice since 2012. She is the Assistant Chair of Plastic Surgery for The Permanente Medical Group. Her clinical focus encompasses microsurgery, breast reconstruction, and gender-affirming surgery.

Dr. Kaoutzanis is an Associate Professor and the Director of Breast Reconstruction at the Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital. He has expertise in both aesthetic and reconstructive surgery with a particular focus in breast reconstruction, gender-affirming surgeries, and aesthetic surgeries. Dr. Kaoutzanis has authored over 90 original publications in peer-reviewed journals and several textbook chapters. He has presented both nationally and internationally, and his work has received national and international recognition with several awards. He has a special interest in clinical outcomes research aiming to improve safety, patient outcomes, and patient satisfaction.

In the XXth Century, Dr. Khouri was recognized as a pioneer and a veteran of microvascular free flaps. He has since expanded the reconstructive envelope to develop incision free flaps and to replace the FLAP with the PALF (Percutaneous Aponeurotomy & Lipo Filling).

Director of the Center for Facial Paralysis and Functional Restoration at Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas.

Chief, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery - MedStar Washington Hospital Center

Assistant Professor, Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery- Georgetown University School of Medicine

Dr. Jason Ko is a Professor of Plastic Surgery with an additional appointment in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, IL. Dr. Ko is the Vice Chair of Clinical Operations for the Department of Surgery, and he is the Program Director for the Integrated Plastic Surgery Residency at Northwestern. He specializes in upper and lower extremity reconstruction, brachial plexus and peripheral nerve surgery, hand and upper extremity surgery, and advanced amputee care. He attended Duke University School of Medicine, where he was first introduced to the concept of Orthoplastic Surgery from his mentor, Dr. L. Scott Levin. Dr. Ko then completed his plastic surgery training at Northwestern University under the tutelage of Dr. Gregory Dumanian, the inventor of Targeted Muscle Reinnervation (TMR), and as a resident, Dr. Ko played an integral role in the early stages of TMR and understanding the effects of TMR on neuroma and phantom limb pain. Dr. Ko then went on to complete a hand and microvascular surgery fellowship at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, after which he joined the faculty at the University of Washington and worked primarily at Harborview Medical Center, the main trauma center for 5 states in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. While at the University of Washington, Dr. Ko performed a high volume of brachial plexus and peripheral nerve reconstructive surgeries, upper and lower extremity reconstructions, and TMR surgery for both prosthetic control and for the treatment of neuroma pain and phantom limb pain.

Dr. Ko was recruited back to Northwestern University in 2016, and he received his MBA in 2019 from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management. He is the Associate Editor for Research of the Orthoplastic Surgery journal and former Associate Editor of the Journal of Hand Surgery American edition. He was recently President of the Illinois Society of Plastic Surgeons in 2022. In terms of research, Dr. Ko’s interests are focused on nerve regeneration, outcomes after brachial plexus reconstruction, osseointegration, and advanced bionic prostheses. He was the Co-PI of a randomized clinical trial funded by the US Department of Defense (DoD) that evaluated the use of TMR as a treatment for neuroma pain and phantom limb pain in upper and lower extremity amputees. Dr. Ko and his collaborators at Northwestern University and the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab have received numerous research grants funded by the DoD and National Institutes of Health. From a clinical standpoint, Dr. Ko is a recognized authority in brachial plexus and peripheral nerve surgery, vascularized bone, extremity reconstruction, and amputee care/TMR.

Dr. George Kokosis is a Johns Hopkins trained Plastic Surgeon and Memorial Sloan Kettering fellowship trained Microsurgeon, focusing on breast reconstruction, both autologous and implant based.

Dr. Timek is a Board-Certified plastic surgeon with an 18-year experience in a wide range plastic and aesthetic surgery and microsurgery. As a teaching physician and member of major plastic surgical organizations, she has published numerous research and technique articles and serves the Associate Editor of the Annals of Plastic Surgery.

William M. Kuzon, Jr., MD, PhD
Reed O. Dingman Collegiate Professor Department of Surgery
Section of Plastic Surgery
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Dr. Theodore Kung is an Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA).  He received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University and completed an integrated plastic surgery residency at Michigan Medicine.  Subsequently, he received subspecialty training in reconstructive microsurgery at the University of Washington in Seattle.  Dr. Kung is the co-Program Director of the Michigan Medicine Plastic Surgery Microsurgery Fellowship and the Director of the Lymphedema Surgery Program.   Dr. Kung specializes in microsurgical reconstruction to address functional and aesthetic challenges following cancer surgery, extremity trauma, and nerve injury.  His clinical practice includes autologous breast reconstruction, lymphedema surgery, neuroma surgery, and extremity salvage.  Dr. Kung’s research work was instrumental in the development of the Regenerative Peripheral Nerve Interface (RPNI) to facilitate intuitive prosthetic control, mitigate postamputation pain, and provide sensory feedback.

Dr. Leis is the residency program director at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). She is a hand and microsurgeon with a special focus on pediatric and congenital hand, brachial plexus birth injury, adult traumatic brachial plexus injury and peripheral nerve injury. She is the director of the Brachial Plexus Birth Injury Program at CHOC Children’s Hospital and the Division Chief for Hand Surgery at UCI. She was a 2023 Visiting Professor through the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the recipient of the 2023 Best Faculty Teacher award from the American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons and 2024 Academician of the year from the California Society of Plastic Surgeons. She is also the American Society of Peripheral Nerve Travelling Fellow for 2025