HealthPartners Medical Group title: Chief of staff, plastic surgeon in the Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, Regions Hospital; Program director for the Hand Surgery Fellowship, Regions Hospital.
Academic title: Assistant professor, Departments of Orthopedic and General Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Joined HPRF: 2004
Education: MD and residencies in muscle mechanics research and plastic surgery, University of Michigan; fellowship in hand surgery, University of Virginia; enrolled in Masters program in philosophy, University of Minnesota.
Research highlights: Nerve research, surgical epistemology and ethics
Research interests/expertise: Surgical techniques in hand and peripheral nerve surgery, acute and chronic problems of the hand and forearm in adults and children, the structure of medicine and medical practice, ethics and knowledge in surgery, translating knowledge to clinical practice, working with students and residents who want to learn the basics of clinical research.
Current projects: 1) Participant in multicenter study on venous thromboembolism in plastic surgery patients, 2) Ethics of facial transplantation, 3) Challenges in incorporation of evidence based medicine into practice, 4) Utility of literature in continuing medical education, 5) Variability in practice patterns among surgeons, 6) Elective denervation for chronic postoperative neuralgic pain.
Curriculum Vitae
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