TITLE
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Associate Director of the UNC Hand Rehabilitation Center

SPECIALTIES
Hand Surgery:

• Treatment of fractures of the hand including phalanges, metacarpals, carpal bone and distal radius (wrist) fractures
  Minimally invasive and arthroscopic treatment of hand and wrist fractures

• Treatment of dislocations of hand and wrist

• Repair of tendon injuries

• Microsurgical repair of nerve injuries

• Treatment of arthritis of hand and wrist
  Joint replacement, joint fusion

• Surgical and nonsurgical treatment of Dupuytren's contracture

• Treatment of Tendinitis of the Hand and Wrist
  DeQuervain's
  Trigger Thumb and Trigger Finger

• Minimally invasive/endoscopic nerve decompression
  Endoscopic Carpal Tunnel Release
  Endoscopic Cubital Tunnel Release

• Surgical and Arthroscopic treatment of ganglion cysts of the wrist

• Treatment of tumors of the hand and upper extremity

• Treatment of congenital differences of the hand:
  Thumb duplication
  Congenital absence of the thumb
  Polydactyly (extra digits)
  Clinodactyly
  Campodactyly
  Amniotic Constriction Ring Syndrome
  Syndactyly (webbed fingers)

• Microsurgical reconstruction of traumatic and cancer defects of the hand, arm and legs
  Free tissue transfer
  Free bone flaps

• Microsurgical Nerve Reconstruction for traumatic injuries to the hand, arm and legs

Cancer Reconstruction:

• Microsurgical reconstruction of head and neck cancer including oral, mandibular and pharyngeal cancer, cancers of the midface and upper face

• Microsurgical reconstruction of breast cancer including free DIEP (Deep Inferior Epigastric Artery) Flap, Free TRAM flap
  Implant-based breast reconstruction

• Reconstruction of rectal and vaginal cancer

• Reconstruction of skin cancers of the head, neck, trunk, arms, legs
  

EDUCATION
Fellowship: Hand and Microsurgery: University of Southern California
Plastic Surgery Residency: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
General Surgery Residency: Brown University
MD: Tufts University School of Medicine
MS: Electrical Engineering: University of California at Los Angeles

BOARD CERTIFICATIONS
American Board of Surgery 2005
American Board of Plastic Surgery 2008
Certified in the Subspecialty of Surgery of the Hand 2010

PUBLICATIONS
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