Plastic Surgery & Reconstructive Surgery
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 1st Annual research and Alumni Day
June 10, 2011 |
Welcome to the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Our mission is to push the frontiers of plastic surgery through patient care, clinical and laboratory research, and education of the next generation of plastic surgeons.
We love what we do, and are excited to show you the many aspects of our program. Take a look at who we are and what we do! Warm regards.
Dr. Gregory Ara Dumanian
Chief and Program Director, Plastic Surgery
Professor of Surgery, Neurosurgery, and Orthopedics
Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
Our Division has been in existence since 1970, and graduates two plastic surgeons a year.
History of the program and plastic surgery in Chicago 
Graduates of the program since its inception
We are an integrated program, meaning that residents are accepted out of medical school into the Division of Plastic Surgery, and graduate as chief residents 7 years later. Dedicated to producing future leaders in plastic surgery, there is a mandatory laboratory year in addition to the 6 clinical years of training. We are fully accredited by the ACGME, and our next site visit will occur in approximately 2012.
The intern year exposes the new physicians to the wide range of surgery within the Department of Surgery, and two months of plastic surgery training. The PGY-2 year, the residents spend three months at Children’s Memorial Hospital (the new Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Research Hospital of Chicago, June 2012). The remaining months are split between plastic surgery specialty rotations such as burn surgery and breast oncology, and rotations within the Department of Surgery such as ICU care. The PGY-3 year splits time between specialty plastic surgery rotations such as oral surgery and dermatology, and a 6-month block of time at Northwestern and the Jesse Brown Veterans Administration Hospital. After the PGY-3 year, a mandatory laboratory year is spent in order to help propel the residents more fully into the world of academic surgery. The final three clinical years are spent immersed solely in plastic surgery. Rotations in hand surgery, pediatric plastic surgery, the John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, and the Shriner’s Hospital alternate with rotations at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. The chief resident aesthetic clinic is well run and organized. Patients will see one of the two chiefs for aesthetic surgery consultation and treatment. The chiefs will be supervised both in their planning and in the operating room by one of the faculty members. Despite the economy, the residents have consistently had 2-4 new patients a week, and performed 14-18 cases each a year. http://www.northwesternplasticsurgery.com/chicago-plastic-surgery/teaching-clinic/ Block diagram of the rotations Our residents will spend most of their clinical time at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and Lurie Children’s. Six resident-months of training will occur each at the Jesse Brown Veterans Administration Medical Center, the Stroger Hospital, and the Chicago Shriners’ Children’s Hospital. Shorter rotations on specialty services during the first three years of training take place at the University of Chicago for burn surgery, and at Southern Illinois University for traumatic hand surgery. Unique aspects of our program include the laboratory year (mandatory), a six-month block on an integrated plastics/orthopedics hand surgery service, the aesthetic clinic, and a full 12 months of senior plastic surgery rotations gaining experience in pediatric plastic surgery. The residents say that other unique attributes include a wonderful location, a well-run and healthy hospital system, the best American city, and a positive esprit-de-corps within the 14 residents. Northwestern is known for its world famous wound healing laboratory, run by Drs. Mustoe and Galiano. Present at Northwestern since 1991, the laboratory is funded both by the government and by industry. The division supports full-time PhD investigators and research fellows. Recent work to better understand the interplay between bacterial biofilms and delayed wound healing, and its treatment, has received national attention. Research performed in conjunction with the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago by Dr. Dumanian in “targeted reinnervation” for the control of myoelectric prostheses for amputees has been ongoing for almost a decade. An active “translational science” program is funded by the division to bring a biomedical engineer into the laboratory. This program first helps ideas become prototypes, and prototypes can then be sold into the marketplace. Computer modeling of the craniofacial skeleton is performed by Dr. Pravin Patel at the Shriner’s Hospital for Children. Much clinical research is also performed in breast reconstruction outcomes, abdominal wall reconstruction, aesthetic surgery, and many other topics. This culminates yearly in a “Resident Research Day and Alumni Reunion”, in which all residents are expected to present their studies to the Division. Resident Day Program of 2011 The Division supports the residents in presenting their work at local, national, and sometimes international conferences. Focused plastic surgery conferences begin in the PGY-2 year. The junior residents have their own weekly conference schedule and reading list. They attend plastic surgery grand rounds. There is a microsurgery course with 16 sessions taught by the attending staff. Two teaching conferences in addition to plastic surgery grand rounds are held weekly for the senior residents. Readings, case photographs, and in-service questions are all pre-prepared on the Blackboard education internet system. Some didactic sessions are focused on skills acquisition, including the plating of fractures, and flap dissections. Visiting professors provide a welcome opportunity to view first-hand what is occurring at other institutions. The residents will spend an afternoon with the visiting faculty member, attend a dinner that night, and spend more time at grand rounds the following morning. The training program uses a portfolio system for emphasizing reflective learning. The residents each document a preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative photo on twenty patients (the juniors) or thirty patients (the seniors) throughout the year. With each case are placed articles from the literature. At the end of the year, five cases are selected. Northwestern has a core-teaching faculty for each of its rotations. At some sites, plastic surgeons in private practice also perform teaching and clinical duties. Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Core Faculty
Northwestern Plastic Surgery
Dr. Gregory Dumanian (chief)
Dr. Thomas Mustoe (ex-chief)
Dr. Robert Galiano
Dr. John Kim Children’s Memorial Hospital
Core Faculty
Dr. Julia Corcoran
Dr. Frank Vicari Shriner's Hospital for Children Chicago
Core Faculty
Dr. Pravin Patel (chief)
Dr. David Morris
Dr. Mitchell Grasseschi
Dr. Gregory Dumanian Jesse Brown Veteran’s Administration Medical Center
Core Faculty
Dr. Gregory Dumanian John H Stroger, Jr., Hospital of Cook County
Core Faculty
Dr. Mark Grevious (chief)
Dr. Jafar Hasan
Dr. Stefan Szczerba
Dr. Kiran Polavarapu Hand Surgery Rotation
Core Faculty
Dr. Gregory Dumanian
Dr. John Kim |
Contributed services faculty
Dr. Victor Lewis
Dr. Michael Lee
Dr. Neil Fine
Dr. Robert Walton
Contributed services faculty
Dr. Pravin Patel
Contributed services faculty
Dr. David Kalainov (coordinator)
Dr. Thomas Wiedrich (plastics)
Dr. Gerald Harris (plastics)
Dr. Charles Carroll (orthopedics)
Dr. Daniel Nagle (orthopedics)
Dr. John Stogin (orthopedics)
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Please refer to the link below for the application process:
www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/visiting The National Resident Matching Program processes applications in the fall of the fourth year of medical school. One set of applicant documents can be furnished through the match. A personal interview is required before acceptance. Northwestern does not require additional letters of recommendation. Chief Residents
Sonya Paisley Agnew, M.D.
Hometown: Toronto, Ontario
College: McGill, Montreal, Quebec
Medical School: University of Pennsylvania Marco Ellis, M.D.
Hometown: Manassas, VA
College: University of Virginia
Medical School: Harvard PGY-5
Donald Buck, M.D.
Hometown: Bedford, IN
College: Indiana University
Medical School: Johns Hopkins Anandev Gurjala, M.D
Hometown: Claremont, CA
College: Northwestern University
Medical School: Northwestern PGY-4
Elliot Hirsch, M.D.
Hometown: Westlake Village, CA
College: Johns Hopkins University
Medical School: University of Southern California Jordan Steinberg, M.D. PhD
Hometown: Coral Springs, Florida
College: Duke University
Medical School: Johns Hopkins Lab Year
Madeleine Saran Gust, M.D.
Hometown: Cleveland, OH
College: Stanford University
Medical School: UCLA Jason Souza, M.D.
Hometown: Bolton, MA
College: Brown University
Medical School: Harvard PGY-3
Jennifer Cheeseborough, M.D.
Hometown: Chapel Hill, NC
College: Duke University
Medical School: Emory Vinay Rawlani, M.D.
Hometown: Chicago, IL
College: University of Missouri at Columbia
Medical School: Northwestern PGY-2
Michael Gart, M.D.
Hometown: Coral Springs, FL
College: University of Florida
Medical School: Brown Sumanas Jordan, M.D.
Hometown: Fairfax, VA
College: University of Pittsburgh
Medical School: Emory Interns
Chad Purnell, M.D.
Hometown: Hunker, PA
College: Saint Vincent College
Medical School: Pittsburgh
Walter Sweeney, M.D.
Hometown: Cincinnati, OH
College: University of Cincinnati
Medical School: Case Western | 
