Daniel S. Alam, M.D. Facial Plastic Surgeon

Steven L. Bernard, M.D. Plastic Surgeon

Daniel S. Alam, M.D., is an accomplished facial plastic surgeon. He serves as the Chief of Facial Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery in the Head and Neck Institute at the Cleveland Clinic and is the Fellowship Director of the Institute’s program in Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

He received his medical training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he graduated as Class Valedictorian. He continued his training with a general surgery internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital and went on to complete a residency in head and neck surgery in Harvard’s Combined Hospitals Training Program. He then completed a fellowship in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery at the UCLA Medical Center before joining the Cleveland Clinic in 2002.

He has received many honors and awards throughout his career, including the Jack Anderson Award for receiving the highest score on the Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Board Examination in 2002. He is a dedicated academic physician with a focus on resident and fellow education receiving the Teacher of the Year Award in the Head and Neck Institute in 2005. He has authored numerous publications in leading peer-reviewed journals in facial plastic surgery and has developed four novel surgical techniques for facial reconstruction.

Professional Memberships • AmericanAcademyofFacialPlasticandReconstructiveSurgery • AmericanAcademyofOtolaryngologyandHeadandNeckSurgery • AmericanSocietyofReconstructiveMicrosurgeons •MedicalMissionsforChildren

Steven L. Bernard, M.D., received his medical training at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and went on to complete residencies in general surgery, plastic surgery and fellowship training in pediatric plastic surgery, as well as hand and microsurgery through the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. His specialty Interests include surgery of the breast, hand, microsurgery and cosmetic surgery.

Dr.Bernardhasbeenboard-certifiedinbothgeneralsurgeryandplasticsurgeryandhasthecertificate-addedqualificationinhandsurgery.Duringthistraining, he was named an Allen Scholar and spent two years in microsurgical research.Asaninnovator,healsopioneeredanIVfluidsystemthatavoidstheuse of sharp needles improving patient safety.

Thefirst10yearsofhiscareerwereatMetroHealthMedicalCenterwhereheserved as Assistant Professor of Surgery at Case Western Reserve University and pioneered techniques to improve the outcomes of complex head and extremity trauma patients.

Dr.Bernardhasauthoredorco-authoredmorethan20scientificpapersand book chapters on plastic surgery topics, including hand infection management, total lip reconstruction, hand burns and trauma and prefabricatedmicrosurgicalflaps.

Daniel S. Alam, M.D.

Steven L. Bernard, M.D.

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Risal Djohan, M.D.Plastic Surgeon

Bijan Eghtesad, M.D. Staff Surgeon in the Departments of General Surgery and Transplantation

Risal Djohan, M.D., is an accomplished plastic surgeon and researcher. He received his medical training at the Chicago Medical School and went on to complete a residency in General Surgery at Columbus/Saint Joseph Medical Center, with continued training in plastic surgery as well as reconstructive microsurgery fellowship through the University of Chicago Hospitals and a cosmetic surgery fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. His specialty interests include reconstructive microvascular surgery, breast surgery, and aesthetic surgery. Dr. Djohanisboard-certifiedinbothgeneralsurgery,andplasticsurgery.

Dr.Djohanhasbeenboard-certifiedinbothgeneralsurgeryandplasticsurgery.He has participated in many volunteer activities including traveling with plastic and general surgery teams to perform procedures in developing countries and events for physically disabled youths. He was awarded the 2004-2005 Teacher of the Year award from the Department of Plastic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic. Currently, he is the program director for the plastic surgery residency training program and reconstructive microsurgery fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic.

Publications • AmericanSurgeon2000 • JournalofThoracicCardiovascularSurgery2003 • JournalofReconstructiveMicrosurgery2006 • PlasticandReconstructiveSurgery2006,2007 • AnnalsofPlasticSurgery2007 • ClevelandClinicJournalofMedicine2008

Professional Memberships • AmericanSocietyofPlasticSurgeons • OhioValleySocietyofPlasticSurgeons • AcademyofMedicineofClevelandandNorthernOhio • AmericanSocietyforReconstructiveMicrosurgery

Bijan Eghtesad, M.D., performs hepatobiliary surgery and liver transplantation. His areas of interest include liver transplantation, hepatitis B and C, liver transplantation in HIV-positive patients, living donor liver transplantation, immunosuppression, and organ donation, recovery and preservation.

Dr. Eghtesad attended medical school at Shiraz University Faculty of Medicine in Shiraz, Iran. After completing his internship and residency at Shiraz University, he completed a fellowship in abdominal transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center/Thoms E. Starzl Transplantation Institute in Pittsburgh, Pa., and a fellowship in pediatric transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital. He was appointed to Cleveland Clinic in 2005.

Professional Memberships • AmericanSocietyofTransplantSurgeons • InternationalLiverTransplantationSociety • AmericanAssociationoftheStudyofLiverDisease • TheTransplantationSociety • AmericanHepato-Pancreatico-BiliaryAssociation

Risal Djohan, M.D.

Bijan Eghtesad, M.D.

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John J. Fung, M.D., Ph.D. Chairman of the Department of General SurgeryDirector of the Transplant Center

Chad Gordon, D.O. Fellow in the Department of Plastic Surgery

John J. Fung, M.D., Ph.D., has more than 25 years experience in kidney, liver, pancreas, islet, and intestinal transplantation, he is also an accomplished immunologist. He earned his medical degree from the University of Chicago and completed his surgical residency at the University of Rochester, and a transplant surgery fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Fung is also Professor of Surgery at the Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western University.

Dr.FungisamemberofnumerousscientificandsurgicalsocietiesandservedasPresidentoftheInternationalLiverTransplantationSocietyfrom1997-1999.Hehaspublishedmorethan850articlesandbookchaptersandservesontheeditorialboardforseveral medical journals. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for Liver Transplantation, the highest impact factor specialty transplant journal.

His principle research interests are in transplantation immunology, immunosuppressive therapies, and liver related immunology. He has received funding from the NIH, the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, as well as support from industry. In addition, he has received numerous prestigious lay and professional awards.

Dr. Fung is active in community affairs and has been a member of the Board of Directors attheAmericansforMedicalProgress,theLifeBancOrganProcurementOrganizationand the American Liver Foundation. He received an honorable discharge from the United States Army Reserve Medical Corps with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Dr. Fung serves as a paid consultant to Astellas and receives honoraria from Genzyme, manufacturers of two of the immunosuppressive medications that may be used inthis study.

Chad Gordon, D.O., has been a fellow with the Cleveland Clinic Department ofPlasticSurgerysinceJuly2008.Dr.GordonwasbornandraisedinPhiladelphia,PA. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the George Washington University in Washington D.C and his medical degree from the Philadelphia College of OsteopathicMedicine.Asafourth-yearmedicalstudent,Dr.Gordonspentfivemonthsat Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital studying composite tissue allotransplantation, including face and hand transplantation. From there, he completed a general surgery residency at Cooper University Hospital/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Camden, NJ. Dr. Gordon continued to concentrate on composite tissue allotransplantationandservedasco-editorforthefirstmajortextbookinthisspecializedfieldentitled,Transplantation of Composite Tissue Allografts. Since then, he has presented his work nationally, winning a variety of prestigous awards, and has authored numerous manuscripts and book chapters. He currently serves on two major editorial boards, Annals of Plastic Surgery and Microsurgery.

Professional Memberships • AmericanSocietyofPlasticSurgeons • AmericanSocietyofMaxillofacialSurgeons • AmericanSocietyofReconstructiveMicrosurgery • AmericanSocietyofReconstructiveTransplantation • PlasticSurgeryResearchCouncil • AssociationforAcademicSurgery

Awards & Honors • BestOverallResident/FellowResearchPaperAwardfromtheAmerican Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery,AnnualScientificMeeting2006. • DistinguishedNationalResidentAchievementAward-GeneralSurgerySection from the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons, Annual Members Meeting, AnnualClinicalAssemblyofSpecialists,BocaRaton,FL2008.

John J. Fung, M.D., Ph.D.

Chad Gordon, D.O.

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Mark Hendrickson, M.D. Head of Hand Surgery

Eric Kodish, M.D.F. J. O’Neill Professor and Chairman of the Department of Bioethics

Mark Hendrickson, M.D.,iscertifiedbytheAmericanBoardofPlasticSurgery. His specialty interests include hand and wrist surgery, congenital hand surgery, microsurgery, reconstructive surgery (chest, abdomen, extremities), melanoma, and aesthetic surgery.

Dr. Hendrickson earned his medical degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. He completed an internship and residency in general surgeryatTulaneUniversityHospitalandClinicsinNewOrleans,La.Hecompletedhis plastic, reconstructive and maxillofacial fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. During this time, he was a research fellow in plastic and reconstructive surgery at Johns Hopkins, a second year fellow in maxillofacial surgery at MIEMS Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, a resident in craniofacial and microvascular surgery also at MIEMS, Shock Trauma Center. He was a fellow in hand surgery at the Curtis Hand Center at Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, Md.

Professional Memberships •AcademyofMedicine •AmericanCollegeofSurgeons •AmericanMedicalAssociation •AmericanSocietyforSurgeryoftheHand •AmericanSocietyofPlasticandReconstructiveSurgery

He has published a number of articles on various topics relating to emergency medicine, transplant surgery and reconstructive surgery. He has received a number ofawardsandhonors,includingbeingnamedOhioSurgeonoftheYearbytheOhioAssociationofOccupationalTherapy.In2008,hereceivedtheBruceHubbardStewartMemorial Award for Humanistic Medicine from the Cleveland Clinic.

His wife, Lisa E. Diard, MD, is a Pediatrician with the Cleveland Clinic. They have three children.

Mark Hendrickson, M.D.

Eric Kodish, M.D., specializes in pediatric ethics, end-of-life issues, research ethics, and childhood cancer and blood diseases. Dr. Kodish is also the Executive Director of the Cleveland Fellowship in Advanced Bioethics, and Professor of Pediatrics at the Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. He received theDistinguishedAlumniAwardfromtheNortheasternOhioUniversitiesCollegeofMedicine(NEOUCOM)in2001.

Dr. Kodish has been Principle Investigator on a series of three NCI funded multi-site studies of informed consent in childhood cancer. The American Cancer Society, Greenwall Foundation and the Cancer Treatment Research Foundation have also funded his research.

He currently serves on the Science and Medicine Advisory Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and on the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) at the NIH. He previously served as Chair of the Bioethics CommitteeoftheChildren’sOncologyGroup,andwasanappointedmemberoftheCommitteeonBioethicsoftheAmericanAcademyofPediatricsfrom1999-2005.

He has been a member of the HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Human ResearchProtectionsSubcommitteeforResearchInvolvingChildrenattheOfficeofHuman Research Protections and the NCI’s Pediatric Central IRB. Dr. Kodish is the authorofmorethan100publicationsinjournalsincludingJAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine, as well as book chapters and reviews. He is the editor of “Ethics andResearchwithChildren:ACase-BasedApproach,”publishedbyOxfordUniversityPress (February 2005).

Eric Kodish, M.D.

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Robert F. Lohman, M.D. Plastic Surgeon

Frank A. Papay, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P. Chairman of the Dermatology and Plastic Surgery Institute

Frank A. Papay, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P., is an accomplished surgeon and has been recognized as one of the nation’s Best Doctor specializing in plastic surgery by Castle Connolly. He is the current Chairman of the Cleveland Clinic’s Dermatology and Plastic Surgery Institute and associate professor of surgery, Lerner School of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. He is head of the section of craniofacial surgery and leads the multidisciplinary craniofacial and cleft palate surgical center of the Cleveland Clinic. His clinical research interests include utilization of bone substitutes in craniofacial reconstruction, nasal valve function in rhinoplasty, facial aesthetic plastic surgery, pediatric craniofacial anomalies, surgical techniques in face allograft transplants and neural modulation of skull base ganglia.

Dr.PapayhasservedasPresidentoftheOhioValleySocietyofPlasticSurgeons,electedChair of the American Society of Plastic Surgery’s Ethics Committee, Executive Committee member of the Plastic Surgery Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics and of the AcademyofMedicineofClevelandandNorthernOhio.

Hehaspublishedover100scientificpapers,abstractsandbookchaptersandistheprimary inventor of multiple medical device patents and craniofacial surgical procedures. He has served as an invited Board Examiner for the American Board of Plastic Surgery, Finalist Judge for the collegiate inventors’ competition from the National Inventors Hall of Fame and invitedsectionreviewerand/oreditorialboardofseveralplasticssurgeryscientificjournals.He has also served on several overseas volunteer surgical missions for craniofacial and cleft palate reconstructions.

Dr. Papay is currently completing his Executive Doctor of Management degree at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, with his thesis interestindecision-makinganalysisofriskbyfinanciersofnewbiotechinnovationsandtechnology transfer.

Frank A. Papay, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P.

Robert F. Lohman, M.D., earned his medical degree from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. He completed an internship and residency in general surgery at the Louisiana State School of Medicine/Charity Hospital in New Orleans.Dr.Lohmanhasalsocompletedfellowshipsinmicrosurgeryandmicrocirculationand plastic surgery at the University of Utah, reconstructive microsurgery at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and hand surgery at the University of AlabamaBirmingham.HeiscertifiedbytheAmericanBoardofPlasticSurgerywithacertificateofaddedqualificationsinhandsurgery.Dr.Lohmanspecializesinhandsurgery, peripheral nerve surgery, reconstructive microsurgery, and reconstruction and rehabilitation ofcancer patients.

Awards & Honors • 1987AwardforMeritoriousResearchWesternSectionoftheSocietyfor Clinical Research • PackardAwardforOutstandingRecordinSurgery,UniversityofColorado School of Medicine • AwardforOutstandingInternCharityHospital,NewOrleans,Louisiana • AwardforOutstandingClinicalInstructorMedicalStudentClassof1994 Louisiana State School of Medicine

Professional Memberships • AmericanCollegeofSurgeons • AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons • AssociationofHandSurgery • AmericanSocietyforReconstructiveMicrosurgery • TheWorldSocietyforReconstructiveMicrosurgery • AmericanSocietyforPeripheralNerve

Robert F. Lohman, M.D.

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Maria Siemionow, M.D., Ph.D. Director of Plastic Surgery ResearchHead of Microsurgery Training

Marie Siemionow, M.D., Ph.D., is a world renowned scientist and microsurgeon. She earned her medical degree from the Poznan Medical Academy in 1974,afterwhichshecompletedherresidencyinorthopedics,andthenearnedaPhDinmicrosurgery.In1985,shecompletedahandsurgeryfellowshipattheChristineKleinert Institute for Hand and Microsurgery in Louisville, Ky.

She specializes in microsurgery, hand surgery, peripheral nerve surgery, transplantation, and microcirculation research. Dr. Siemionow is also leading the way in developing new technology for minimal immunosuppression in transplantation.

A Leader Dr. Siemionow is the Director of Plastic Surgery Research and Head of Microsurgical Training for Cleveland Clinic’s Department of Plastic Surgery.

As Director of Plastic Surgery Research and Head of Microsurgical Training,Dr.Siemionowhastrainedover100internationalFellowsinthefieldofmicrosurgeryand transplantation research.

She is currently the Secretary of the American Society for Reconstructive Transplantation, as well as the Section Coordinator of Research for the International Registry on Hand and Composite Tissue Transplantation. She is also Past President of the American Society for Peripheral Nerve.

Professional Highlights • Dr.Siemionowhasover250scientificpublications.Shehaseditedtwoplastic surgerytextbooks,onepopularsciencebook,andhascontributedto31 published book chapters.

• Additionally,sheservesontheeditorialboardoffiveprofessionalsocietyjournals and is an ad hoc reviewer for four professional society journals.

• In2005,shewasappointedProfessorofSurgeryintheDepartmentof

Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.

•Mostrecently,in2008,shereceivedhonoraryacademicappointmentas Professor of Surgery at the Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences in Poznan, Poland.

Awards & Honors • Dr.Siemionowreceived,asPrincipalInvestigator,thefirstIRBapprovalinthe world for her Composite Facial Allograft Transplantation protocol.

• In2004and2007,forherworkonfacetransplantation,Dr.Siemionowwas honored with the James Barrett Brown Award for the best publication in a plastic surgery journal. She was also awarded the Folkert Belzer Award in Transplantationforherworkontransplantationandtoleranceatthe6thCongress oftheInternationalSocietyforOrganSharingin2001.

•Dr.Siemionow’sresearchrelatedtotransplantation,nerveregenerationand prevention of ischemia reperfusion injury in reconstructive surgery has received recognition as demonstrated by media-invited appearances on local and national radio and television broadcasts.

Professional Memberships • AmericanSocietyofPlasticSurgeons • AmericanAssociationofPlasticSurgeons • AmericanAssociationforHandSurgery • AmericanSocietyforReconstructiveMicrosurgery • AmericanSocietyforPeripheralNerve •AmericanSocietyforReconstructiveTransplantation •TheTransplantationSociety

Maria Siemionow, M.D., Ph.D.

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