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The Corewell Health – Grand Rapids/Michigan State University Plastic Surgery Integrated Residency program offers an environment of collegiality with rigorous academic pursuit and a demand for excellence for all our residents. We believe the best way to learn plastic surgery during your six-year training is through a combination of early and extensive operative experience coupled with a robust didactic curriculum. Our emphasis on research, both clinical and basic science, fosters a unique environment of inquiry and results in residents and faculty producing numerous publications of articles, chapters, and books despite our community-based training model. Residents get the best of both worlds, an academic environment in a community setting.
Our program, your future
The Corewell Health – Grand Rapids/Michigan State University Plastic Surgery Integrated Residency program trains residents in a variety of subspecialties, including hand surgery, microsurgery, trauma, burns, and pediatric plastic surgery. In addition to these inpatient responsibilities, residents rotate at office-based, accredited private surgical centers that provide ambulatory and cosmetic surgery training. Our residents routinely graduate with between 4,000 and 5,000 procedures as primary surgeons and often have some of the highest number of surgical procedures of any residency nationwide in breast surgery, body contouring, cosmetic surgery, and hand surgery. In addition, the private ambulatory surgical experience exposes residents to the private practice model that adds unique training in the business of plastic surgery and helps them eventually navigate the real world of plastic surgery practice. Our mission is to educate and train qualified plastic surgeons who possess sound fundamental knowledge of anatomy and surgery, are competent, ethical, and efficient plastic surgeons who are prepared to become certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. This approach has resulted in a 100 percent board pass rate among our graduates. Read more about our program aims.
Residents in our program work in efficient hospital systems, thus minimizing service needs and maximizing resident education. This system, along with our extensive didactic program has resulted in outstanding plastic surgery in-service exam scores and 100 percent board pass rates. Given this track record of academic excellence along with extensive operative experience, our residents routinely secure exceptional post-graduate fellowship positions in hand surgery, cosmetic surgery, craniofacial surgery, and microsurgery at some of the most prestigious institutions in the United States and Canada. Our residents excel in these fellowship positions, demonstrating the effectiveness of our curriculum, our training model, and their early and extensive operative experience.
History
Plastic surgery training in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has a long and storied history. It began in 1921 when Ferris Smith trained his first registrar, Patrick Mulligan, MD. Many of the early giants of plastic surgery trained in Grand Rapids using the preceptorship model under Dr. Smith and his protégé and eventual partner, Wallace Steffensen, MD. The first formal plastic surgery residency program was started by Dr. Ralph Blocksma in 1964. This program continues today as a six-year integrated plastic surgery residency. Dr. Blocksma's first resident, Samuel Noordhoff, went on to be one of the founders of Chang Gung Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan. It would become one of the largest plastic surgery units in the world, with Dr. Noordhoff instrumental in the training of multiple generations of Taiwanese plastic surgeons and in the development of their world-renowned microsurgical unit.
Graduates of our program have been honored with multiple leadership positions in plastic surgery. Ferris Smith was a founding member of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons (AAPS) and the American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS). Clarence Straatsma was a founding member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), the Plastic Surgery Foundation, and the American Board of Plastic Surgery. Six of our trainees have been presidents of the ASPS (Clarence Straatsma, Wallace Steffensen, Reed Dingman, Mark Gorney, James T. Wells, and Fred McCoy). Dr. Smith was president of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, and two graduates have been presidents of the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgery (Samuel Noordhoff and Wallace Steffensen). In addition, five graduates have received special achievement awards from ASPS (Smith, James T. Mills, Clarence Straatsma, Reed Dingman, and Wallace Steffensen), and two have received special achievement awards from ASPS (Mark Gorney and Ralph Blocksma).
We are proud of our history and our heritage of excellence in plastic surgery training. Grand Rapids has been and continues to be one of the leading centers in the country for plastic surgery training and innovation.
Our graduates continue this tradition of excellence through competitive fellowship training and successful careers in academic medicine and private practice across the country. Explore where our graduates have continued their careers and training.
The Corewell Health – Grand Rapids/Michigan State University Plastic Surgery Integrated Residency program trains residents in a variety of subspecialties, including hand surgery, microsurgery, trauma, burns, and pediatric plastic surgery. In addition to these inpatient responsibilities, residents rotate at office-based, accredited private surgical centers that provide ambulatory and cosmetic surgery training. Our residents routinely graduate with between 4,000 and 5,000 procedures as primary surgeons and often have some of the highest number of surgical procedures of any residency nationwide in breast surgery, body contouring, cosmetic surgery, and hand surgery. In addition, the private ambulatory surgical experience exposes residents to the private practice model that adds unique training in the business of plastic surgery and helps them eventually navigate the real world of plastic surgery practice. Our mission is to educate and train qualified plastic surgeons who possess sound fundamental knowledge of anatomy and surgery, are competent, ethical, and efficient plastic surgeons who are prepared to become certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. This approach has resulted in a 100 percent board pass rate among our graduates. Read more about our program aims.
Residents in our program work in efficient hospital systems, thus minimizing service needs and maximizing resident education. This system, along with our extensive didactic program has resulted in outstanding plastic surgery in-service exam scores and 100 percent board pass rates. Given this track record of academic excellence along with extensive operative experience, our residents routinely secure exceptional post-graduate fellowship positions in hand surgery, cosmetic surgery, craniofacial surgery, and microsurgery at some of the most prestigious institutions in the United States and Canada. Our residents excel in these fellowship positions, demonstrating the effectiveness of our curriculum, our training model, and their early and extensive operative experience.
History
Plastic surgery training in Grand Rapids, Michigan, has a long and storied history. It began in 1921 when Ferris Smith trained his first registrar, Patrick Mulligan, MD. Many of the early giants of plastic surgery trained in Grand Rapids using the preceptorship model under Dr. Smith and his protégé and eventual partner, Wallace Steffensen, MD. The first formal plastic surgery residency program was started by Dr. Ralph Blocksma in 1964. This program continues today as a six-year integrated plastic surgery residency. Dr. Blocksma's first resident, Samuel Noordhoff, went on to be one of the founders of Chang Gung Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan. It would become one of the largest plastic surgery units in the world, with Dr. Noordhoff instrumental in the training of multiple generations of Taiwanese plastic surgeons and in the development of their world-renowned microsurgical unit.
Graduates of our program have been honored with multiple leadership positions in plastic surgery. Ferris Smith was a founding member of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons (AAPS) and the American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS). Clarence Straatsma was a founding member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), the Plastic Surgery Foundation, and the American Board of Plastic Surgery. Six of our trainees have been presidents of the ASPS (Clarence Straatsma, Wallace Steffensen, Reed Dingman, Mark Gorney, James T. Wells, and Fred McCoy). Dr. Smith was president of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, and two graduates have been presidents of the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgery (Samuel Noordhoff and Wallace Steffensen). In addition, five graduates have received special achievement awards from ASPS (Smith, James T. Mills, Clarence Straatsma, Reed Dingman, and Wallace Steffensen), and two have received special achievement awards from ASPS (Mark Gorney and Ralph Blocksma).
We are proud of our history and our heritage of excellence in plastic surgery training. Grand Rapids has been and continues to be one of the leading centers in the country for plastic surgery training and innovation.
Our graduates continue this tradition of excellence through competitive fellowship training and successful careers in academic medicine and private practice across the country. Explore where our graduates have continued their careers and training.
Our residency program is committed to the wellness of our residents and faculty. Being a physician is a higher calling and honorable profession. It can be extremely rewarding, yet emotionally and physically exhausting. Psychological, emotional, and physical well-being are critical in the development of the competent, caring, and resilient physician.
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From the program director
Greetings! I am the program director for the plastic surgery integrated residency at Corewell Health in West Michigan, in partnership with Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. Plastic surgery training is part of our DNA in Grand Rapids. We have been training successful, innovative plastic surgeons for 100 years. As the sixth program director in program history, I am proud of the legacy of excellence and innovation, the environment of collegiality and inquiry, and the continued quality of our residents, graduates, and faculty.
We believe that plastic surgery is a technically demanding specialty and that to become proficient, residents must begin their operative experience early and be given graduated responsibility in the operative room. This training is completed at free-standing and private surgical centers and multiple hospitals, including West Michigan's only level one trauma center and a free-standing children’s hospital. Our graduates routinely complete their training with between 4,000 and 5,000 procedures as primary surgeons.
Surgical training is not only technical in nature. We believe a rigorous and varied didactic curriculum is needed to complete your plastic surgery training. Our residents spend nearly 10 hours every week in protected classroom time learning all aspects of plastic surgery training, including microsurgery, hand surgery, cosmetic surgery, reconstructive breast surgery, and adult and pediatric craniofacial surgery. I am proud to say that this robust academic schedule has led to a 100% pass rate on national boards for our graduates and has allowed many of our graduates to secure exceptional post-graduate training at competitive fellowships throughout the world.
Our faculty are dedicated to teaching and academics, and many are known for their innovative techniques and educational abilities. Dennis Hammond, MD, is a world-renowned breast surgeon and expert on both cosmetic and reconstructive breast surgery. Dr. Hammond has been invited as a visiting professor at numerous plastic surgery training programs around the world and has helped to train hundreds of surgeons on the intricacies of the SPAIR reduction mammoplasty, a technique he developed and perfected. Dr. John Polley, MD, is known for his work with distraction osteogenesis for craniofacial deformities, and Dr. Robert Mann for his innovative use of buccal flaps in cleft palate repair. Both are graduates of our program and former faculty. The world-caliber pediatric care fostered by these innovators is now carried on by our current head of pediatric plastic surgery, Dr. John Girotto, and partners Anna Carlson, MD, and Leahthan Domeshek, MD. These innovative thought leaders help to develop an academic environment that results in a large number of publications, including textbooks and articles in peer-reviewed journals for themselves and our residents.
Our residents come from diverse backgrounds and medical schools throughout the United States. What they all have in common is a drive for academic excellence, their professionalism, and their ability to work well in our team-oriented learning environment. We recruit academically gifted residents who will excel in our training model and who will improve the quality of our residency through their innovation and drive for excellence.
Our plastic surgery training model is unlike any program in the country. All faculty are volunteer board-certified surgeons who train residents because they love to teach.
Residents rotate through several private plastic surgery offices and thus learn about the business side of plastic surgery. This private practice experience, coupled with the rigorous academic environment, has led us to refer to our program as a “privademic” model, fusing the best of both the academic and private practice models.
So, if you are looking for excellent plastic surgery training and you are an inquisitive, motivated applicant, this program may be a perfect fit.
Matthew P. Fahrenkopf, MD
Chief, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Corewell Health
Program Director, Corewell Health-Grand Rapids/Michigan State University Plastic Surgery-Integrated Residency
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Program director
Matthew Fahrenkopf, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery, hand surgery
- Fellowship: Orthopedic hand surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Matthew Fahrenkopf, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery, hand surgery
- Fellowship: Orthopedic hand surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Matthew Fahrenkopf, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery, hand surgery
- Fellowship: Orthopedic hand surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Matthew Fahrenkopf, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery, hand surgery
- Fellowship: Orthopedic hand surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Associate program director
Ronald Ford, MD
- Specialty: Reconstructive plastic surgery, microvascular surgery, hand surgery, burn
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, University of New Mexico
- Residency:
- Plastic and reconstructive surgery, Corewell Health/Michigan State University
- General surgery, Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Ronald Ford, MD
- Specialty: Reconstructive plastic surgery, microvascular surgery, hand surgery, burn
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, University of New Mexico
- Residency:
- Plastic and reconstructive surgery, Corewell Health/Michigan State University
- General surgery, Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Ronald Ford, MD
- Specialty: Reconstructive plastic surgery, microvascular surgery, hand surgery, burn
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, University of New Mexico
- Residency:
- Plastic and reconstructive surgery, Corewell Health/Michigan State University
- General surgery, Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Ronald Ford, MD
- Specialty: Reconstructive plastic surgery, microvascular surgery, hand surgery, burn
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, University of New Mexico
- Residency:
- Plastic and reconstructive surgery, Corewell Health/Michigan State University
- General surgery, Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Core faculty
Marguerite Aitken, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic plastic surgery, breast surgery, body contouring
- Fellowship:
- Oculoplastic surgery, Atlanta, GA
- Perforator flaps, Gent, Belgium
- Body contouring, Charlotte, NC
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Shannon Armstrong, MD
- Specialty: Pediatric plastic surgery, craniofacial surgery
- Fellowship: Hand & microsurgery, Buncke Clinic
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Andrew Baker, MD
- Specialty: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- Fellowship: Head and Neck-Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery, Providence Portland Medical Center
- Residency: Oral & Maxillofacial, University of Michigan Medical School
Rebecca Boston, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
- Fellowship: Orange County
- Aesthetic surgery, Orange County, CA
- Residency: Penn State Health
Nichole Canepa, MD
- Specialty: Microsurgery, Plastic Surgery
- Fellowship: Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery, Cleveland Clinic
- Residency: Plastic Surgery, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
William Cullen, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand and microvascular surgery, Salt Lake City, UT
- Residency: Spectrum Health/Michigan State University
Viet Do, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, Oklahoma City, OK
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Leahthan Domeshek, MD
- Specialty: Pediatric plastic surgery, hand surgery, craniofacial surgery
- Fellowship:
- Hand, peripheral nerve & microsurgery, Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis, MO
- Pediatric plastic surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Residency:
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University Plastic Surgery
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University General Surgery
Stephen Duquette, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand and microsurgery, Stony Brook, NY
- Residency: Indiana University
John Girotto, MD
- Specialty: Pediatric and adult plastic, craniofacial surgery
- Fellowship: The Seattle Children's Hospital
- Residency: The John's Hopkins University Hospitals
Dennis Hammond, MD
- Specialty: Breast surgery and body contouring
- Fellowship:
- Hand & microsurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin
- Institute for Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Baptist Hospital, Nashville, TN
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Adam Hassan, MD
- Specialty: Comprehensive Ophthalmology
- Fellowship: University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers
- Residency: University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ophthalmology
John Kelpin, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, University of Southern California
- Residency: Corewell Health-Grand Rapids/Michigan State University
Kevin Knox, MD
- Specialty: Hand Surgery, Plastic Surgery
- Fellowship: Hand Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine
- Residency:
- Plastic Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
- Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Ewa Komorowski-Timek, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery
- Fellowship: Stanford University School of Medicine
- Residency: Plastic Surgery, Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Johanna Krebiehl, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery, hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, University of Southern California
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Andrew Livingston, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery, hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery & microsurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin
- Residency:
- The University of Wisconsin Plastic Surgery
- St. John Hospital and Medical Center General Surgery
Igor Makeovy, MD
- Specialty: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- Fellowship: Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School
- Residency: University of Michigan Medical School, University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Matthew Martin, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery, reconstructive and plastic surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, University of New Mexico
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Olivia Means, MD
- Specialty: Hand & Plastic Surgery Reconstruction
- Fellowship: Beth Israel Deaconess Medica Center/ Harvard Medical School
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
John Miner, MD
- Specialty: Laser Surgery and Cosmetic Dermatology
- Fellowship: The Stough Clinic in Hot Springs, Dermatologic Surgery in Moh’s Surgery and Hair Restoration
- Internship: Naval Medical Center San Diego
- Residency: Wayne State University
Steven Naum, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, Blodgett Memorial Medical Center
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Benjamin Rechner, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery
- Fellowship: Pediatric craniomaxillofacial surgery, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
John Renucci, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
- Fellowship:
- Aesthetic surgery, Cleveland Clinic - Florida
- Microsurgery, University of Chicago
- Residency: University of Chicago
Robyn Sackeyfio, MD
- Specialty: Plastic surgery
- Fellowship: Reconstructive microsurgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Residency:
- General surgery, Emory University
- Plastic surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell/Columbia Presbyterian
Veronique Wan Fook Cheung, MD
- Specialty: Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
- Fellowship: Otolaryngology, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine
- Residency: Otolaryngology, University of British Columbia GME
Terri Zomerlei, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
- Residency: The Ohio State University
Emily Zurbuchen, MD
- Specialty: Reconstructive Microsurgery, Plastic Surgery
- Residency:
- General Surgery, University of Nebraska College of Medicine
- Plastic Surgery, University of California, Davis Medical Center
Marguerite Aitken, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic plastic surgery, breast surgery, body contouring
- Fellowship:
- Oculoplastic surgery, Atlanta, GA
- Perforator flaps, Gent, Belgium
- Body contouring, Charlotte, NC
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Shannon Armstrong, MD
- Specialty: Pediatric plastic surgery, craniofacial surgery
- Fellowship: Hand & microsurgery, Buncke Clinic
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Andrew Baker, MD
- Specialty: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- Fellowship: Head and Neck-Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery, Providence Portland Medical Center
- Residency: Oral & Maxillofacial, University of Michigan Medical School
Rebecca Boston, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
- Fellowship: Orange County
- Aesthetic surgery, Orange County, CA
- Residency: Penn State Health
Nichole Canepa, MD
- Specialty: Microsurgery, Plastic Surgery
- Fellowship: Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery, Cleveland Clinic
- Residency: Plastic Surgery, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
William Cullen, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand and microvascular surgery, Salt Lake City, UT
- Residency: Spectrum Health/Michigan State University
Viet Do, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, Oklahoma City, OK
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Leahthan Domeshek, MD
- Specialty: Pediatric plastic surgery, hand surgery, craniofacial surgery
- Fellowship:
- Hand, peripheral nerve & microsurgery, Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis, MO
- Pediatric plastic surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Residency:
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University Plastic Surgery
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University General Surgery
Stephen Duquette, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand and microsurgery, Stony Brook, NY
- Residency: Indiana University
John Girotto, MD
- Specialty: Pediatric and adult plastic, craniofacial surgery
- Fellowship: The Seattle Children's Hospital
- Residency: The John's Hopkins University Hospitals
Dennis Hammond, MD
- Specialty: Breast surgery and body contouring
- Fellowship:
- Hand & microsurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin
- Institute for Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Baptist Hospital, Nashville, TN
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Adam Hassan, MD
- Specialty: Comprehensive Ophthalmology
- Fellowship: University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers
- Residency: University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ophthalmology
John Kelpin, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, University of Southern California
- Residency: Corewell Health-Grand Rapids/Michigan State University
Kevin Knox, MD
- Specialty: Hand Surgery, Plastic Surgery
- Fellowship: Hand Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine
- Residency:
- Plastic Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
- Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Ewa Komorowski-Timek, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery
- Fellowship: Stanford University School of Medicine
- Residency: Plastic Surgery, Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Johanna Krebiehl, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery, hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, University of Southern California
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Andrew Livingston, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery, hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery & microsurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin
- Residency:
- The University of Wisconsin Plastic Surgery
- St. John Hospital and Medical Center General Surgery
Igor Makeovy, MD
- Specialty: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- Fellowship: Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School
- Residency: University of Michigan Medical School, University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Matthew Martin, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery, reconstructive and plastic surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, University of New Mexico
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Olivia Means, MD
- Specialty: Hand & Plastic Surgery Reconstruction
- Fellowship: Beth Israel Deaconess Medica Center/ Harvard Medical School
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
John Miner, MD
- Specialty: Laser Surgery and Cosmetic Dermatology
- Fellowship: The Stough Clinic in Hot Springs, Dermatologic Surgery in Moh’s Surgery and Hair Restoration
- Internship: Naval Medical Center San Diego
- Residency: Wayne State University
Steven Naum, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, Blodgett Memorial Medical Center
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Benjamin Rechner, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery
- Fellowship: Pediatric craniomaxillofacial surgery, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
John Renucci, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
- Fellowship:
- Aesthetic surgery, Cleveland Clinic - Florida
- Microsurgery, University of Chicago
- Residency: University of Chicago
Robyn Sackeyfio, MD
- Specialty: Plastic surgery
- Fellowship: Reconstructive microsurgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Residency:
- General surgery, Emory University
- Plastic surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell/Columbia Presbyterian
Veronique Wan Fook Cheung, MD
- Specialty: Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
- Fellowship: Otolaryngology, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine
- Residency: Otolaryngology, University of British Columbia GME
Terri Zomerlei, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
- Residency: The Ohio State University
Emily Zurbuchen, MD
- Specialty: Reconstructive Microsurgery, Plastic Surgery
- Residency:
- General Surgery, University of Nebraska College of Medicine
- Plastic Surgery, University of California, Davis Medical Center
Marguerite Aitken, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic plastic surgery, breast surgery, body contouring
- Fellowship:
- Oculoplastic surgery, Atlanta, GA
- Perforator flaps, Gent, Belgium
- Body contouring, Charlotte, NC
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Shannon Armstrong, MD
- Specialty: Pediatric plastic surgery, craniofacial surgery
- Fellowship: Hand & microsurgery, Buncke Clinic
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Andrew Baker, MD
- Specialty: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- Fellowship: Head and Neck-Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery, Providence Portland Medical Center
- Residency: Oral & Maxillofacial, University of Michigan Medical School
Rebecca Boston, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
- Fellowship: Orange County
- Aesthetic surgery, Orange County, CA
- Residency: Penn State Health
Nichole Canepa, MD
- Specialty: Microsurgery, Plastic Surgery
- Fellowship: Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery, Cleveland Clinic
- Residency: Plastic Surgery, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
William Cullen, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand and microvascular surgery, Salt Lake City, UT
- Residency: Spectrum Health/Michigan State University
Viet Do, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, Oklahoma City, OK
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Leahthan Domeshek, MD
- Specialty: Pediatric plastic surgery, hand surgery, craniofacial surgery
- Fellowship:
- Hand, peripheral nerve & microsurgery, Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis, MO
- Pediatric plastic surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Residency:
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University Plastic Surgery
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University General Surgery
Stephen Duquette, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand and microsurgery, Stony Brook, NY
- Residency: Indiana University
John Girotto, MD
- Specialty: Pediatric and adult plastic, craniofacial surgery
- Fellowship: The Seattle Children's Hospital
- Residency: The John's Hopkins University Hospitals
Dennis Hammond, MD
- Specialty: Breast surgery and body contouring
- Fellowship:
- Hand & microsurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin
- Institute for Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Baptist Hospital, Nashville, TN
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Adam Hassan, MD
- Specialty: Comprehensive Ophthalmology
- Fellowship: University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers
- Residency: University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ophthalmology
John Kelpin, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, University of Southern California
- Residency: Corewell Health-Grand Rapids/Michigan State University
Kevin Knox, MD
- Specialty: Hand Surgery, Plastic Surgery
- Fellowship: Hand Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine
- Residency:
- Plastic Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
- Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Ewa Komorowski-Timek, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery
- Fellowship: Stanford University School of Medicine
- Residency: Plastic Surgery, Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Johanna Krebiehl, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery, hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, University of Southern California
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Andrew Livingston, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery, hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery & microsurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin
- Residency:
- The University of Wisconsin Plastic Surgery
- St. John Hospital and Medical Center General Surgery
Igor Makeovy, MD
- Specialty: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- Fellowship: Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School
- Residency: University of Michigan Medical School, University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Matthew Martin, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery, reconstructive and plastic surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, University of New Mexico
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Olivia Means, MD
- Specialty: Hand & Plastic Surgery Reconstruction
- Fellowship: Beth Israel Deaconess Medica Center/ Harvard Medical School
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
John Miner, MD
- Specialty: Laser Surgery and Cosmetic Dermatology
- Fellowship: The Stough Clinic in Hot Springs, Dermatologic Surgery in Moh’s Surgery and Hair Restoration
- Internship: Naval Medical Center San Diego
- Residency: Wayne State University
Steven Naum, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, Blodgett Memorial Medical Center
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Benjamin Rechner, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery
- Fellowship: Pediatric craniomaxillofacial surgery, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
John Renucci, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
- Fellowship:
- Aesthetic surgery, Cleveland Clinic - Florida
- Microsurgery, University of Chicago
- Residency: University of Chicago
Robyn Sackeyfio, MD
- Specialty: Plastic surgery
- Fellowship: Reconstructive microsurgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Residency:
- General surgery, Emory University
- Plastic surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell/Columbia Presbyterian
Veronique Wan Fook Cheung, MD
- Specialty: Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
- Fellowship: Otolaryngology, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine
- Residency: Otolaryngology, University of British Columbia GME
Terri Zomerlei, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
- Residency: The Ohio State University
Emily Zurbuchen, MD
- Specialty: Reconstructive Microsurgery, Plastic Surgery
- Residency:
- General Surgery, University of Nebraska College of Medicine
- Plastic Surgery, University of California, Davis Medical Center
Marguerite Aitken, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic plastic surgery, breast surgery, body contouring
- Fellowship:
- Oculoplastic surgery, Atlanta, GA
- Perforator flaps, Gent, Belgium
- Body contouring, Charlotte, NC
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Shannon Armstrong, MD
- Specialty: Pediatric plastic surgery, craniofacial surgery
- Fellowship: Hand & microsurgery, Buncke Clinic
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Andrew Baker, MD
- Specialty: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- Fellowship: Head and Neck-Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery, Providence Portland Medical Center
- Residency: Oral & Maxillofacial, University of Michigan Medical School
Rebecca Boston, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
- Fellowship: Orange County
- Aesthetic surgery, Orange County, CA
- Residency: Penn State Health
Nichole Canepa, MD
- Specialty: Microsurgery, Plastic Surgery
- Fellowship: Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery, Cleveland Clinic
- Residency: Plastic Surgery, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
William Cullen, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand and microvascular surgery, Salt Lake City, UT
- Residency: Spectrum Health/Michigan State University
Viet Do, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, Oklahoma City, OK
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Leahthan Domeshek, MD
- Specialty: Pediatric plastic surgery, hand surgery, craniofacial surgery
- Fellowship:
- Hand, peripheral nerve & microsurgery, Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis, MO
- Pediatric plastic surgery, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Residency:
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University Plastic Surgery
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital/Washington University General Surgery
Stephen Duquette, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand and microsurgery, Stony Brook, NY
- Residency: Indiana University
John Girotto, MD
- Specialty: Pediatric and adult plastic, craniofacial surgery
- Fellowship: The Seattle Children's Hospital
- Residency: The John's Hopkins University Hospitals
Dennis Hammond, MD
- Specialty: Breast surgery and body contouring
- Fellowship:
- Hand & microsurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin
- Institute for Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Baptist Hospital, Nashville, TN
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Adam Hassan, MD
- Specialty: Comprehensive Ophthalmology
- Fellowship: University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers
- Residency: University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ophthalmology
John Kelpin, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, University of Southern California
- Residency: Corewell Health-Grand Rapids/Michigan State University
Kevin Knox, MD
- Specialty: Hand Surgery, Plastic Surgery
- Fellowship: Hand Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine
- Residency:
- Plastic Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
- Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Ewa Komorowski-Timek, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery
- Fellowship: Stanford University School of Medicine
- Residency: Plastic Surgery, Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Johanna Krebiehl, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery, hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, University of Southern California
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Andrew Livingston, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery, hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery & microsurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin
- Residency:
- The University of Wisconsin Plastic Surgery
- St. John Hospital and Medical Center General Surgery
Igor Makeovy, MD
- Specialty: Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- Fellowship: Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School
- Residency: University of Michigan Medical School, University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Matthew Martin, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery, reconstructive and plastic surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, University of New Mexico
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Olivia Means, MD
- Specialty: Hand & Plastic Surgery Reconstruction
- Fellowship: Beth Israel Deaconess Medica Center/ Harvard Medical School
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
John Miner, MD
- Specialty: Laser Surgery and Cosmetic Dermatology
- Fellowship: The Stough Clinic in Hot Springs, Dermatologic Surgery in Moh’s Surgery and Hair Restoration
- Internship: Naval Medical Center San Diego
- Residency: Wayne State University
Steven Naum, MD
- Specialty: Hand surgery
- Fellowship: Hand surgery, Blodgett Memorial Medical Center
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
Benjamin Rechner, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery
- Fellowship: Pediatric craniomaxillofacial surgery, University of Toronto, The Hospital for Sick Children
- Residency: Corewell Health/Michigan State University
John Renucci, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
- Fellowship:
- Aesthetic surgery, Cleveland Clinic - Florida
- Microsurgery, University of Chicago
- Residency: University of Chicago
Robyn Sackeyfio, MD
- Specialty: Plastic surgery
- Fellowship: Reconstructive microsurgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Residency:
- General surgery, Emory University
- Plastic surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell/Columbia Presbyterian
Veronique Wan Fook Cheung, MD
- Specialty: Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
- Fellowship: Otolaryngology, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine
- Residency: Otolaryngology, University of British Columbia GME
Terri Zomerlei, MD
- Specialty: Cosmetic and reconstructive surgery
- Residency: The Ohio State University
Emily Zurbuchen, MD
- Specialty: Reconstructive Microsurgery, Plastic Surgery
- Residency:
- General Surgery, University of Nebraska College of Medicine
- Plastic Surgery, University of California, Davis Medical Center
PGY 1
Henrietta Ehirim, MD
University of Kansas
Samuel Girian, MD
Tulane University
Beatrice Lucchesi, MD
Michigan State University
Henrietta Ehirim, MD
University of Kansas
Samuel Girian, MD
Tulane University
Beatrice Lucchesi, MD
Michigan State University
Henrietta Ehirim, MD
University of Kansas
Samuel Girian, MD
Tulane University
Beatrice Lucchesi, MD
Michigan State University
Henrietta Ehirim, MD
University of Kansas
Samuel Girian, MD
Tulane University
Beatrice Lucchesi, MD
Michigan State University
PGY 2
Morgan Lentz, MD
University of Wisconsin
O. Parker Martinez, MD
University of South Carolina
Hanna Pfershy, MD
Michigan State University
Morgan Lentz, MD
University of Wisconsin
O. Parker Martinez, MD
University of South Carolina
Hanna Pfershy, MD
Michigan State University
Morgan Lentz, MD
University of Wisconsin
O. Parker Martinez, MD
University of South Carolina
Hanna Pfershy, MD
Michigan State University
Morgan Lentz, MD
University of Wisconsin
O. Parker Martinez, MD
University of South Carolina
Hanna Pfershy, MD
Michigan State University
PGY 3
Elizabeth Bushong, MD
Michigan State University
Morgan Sainsbury, MD
Creighton University
Rachel Weber, MD
Medical College of Wisconsin
Elizabeth Bushong, MD
Michigan State University
Morgan Sainsbury, MD
Creighton University
Rachel Weber, MD
Medical College of Wisconsin
Elizabeth Bushong, MD
Michigan State University
Morgan Sainsbury, MD
Creighton University
Rachel Weber, MD
Medical College of Wisconsin
Elizabeth Bushong, MD
Michigan State University
Morgan Sainsbury, MD
Creighton University
Rachel Weber, MD
Medical College of Wisconsin
PGY 4
Ellie Gschwendtner, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Humza Mirza, MD
University of Michigan Medical School
Darin Patmon, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Ellie Gschwendtner, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Humza Mirza, MD
University of Michigan Medical School
Darin Patmon, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Ellie Gschwendtner, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Humza Mirza, MD
University of Michigan Medical School
Darin Patmon, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Ellie Gschwendtner, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Humza Mirza, MD
University of Michigan Medical School
Darin Patmon, MD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
PGY 5
Jacob Franke, MD
Southern Illinois University
Reece Moore, MD
Medical University of South Carolina
Allison Mueller, MD
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Jacob Franke, MD
Southern Illinois University
Reece Moore, MD
Medical University of South Carolina
Allison Mueller, MD
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Jacob Franke, MD
Southern Illinois University
Reece Moore, MD
Medical University of South Carolina
Allison Mueller, MD
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Jacob Franke, MD
Southern Illinois University
Reece Moore, MD
Medical University of South Carolina
Allison Mueller, MD
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
PGY 6
Nina Livermore, MD
Ohio State University
Megan Sommers, MD
University of South Dakota
Nina Livermore, MD
Ohio State University
Megan Sommers, MD
University of South Dakota
Nina Livermore, MD
Ohio State University
Megan Sommers, MD
University of South Dakota
Nina Livermore, MD
Ohio State University
Megan Sommers, MD
University of South Dakota
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