Department of Plastic Surgery Archive — Page 3 of 3

November 8, 2016

Improving wound healing

Vanderbilt researchers have shown that an injectable material improves wound healing and may be useful for large skin wounds such as those in patients with diabetes.

By Leigh MacMillan
Kelly Davis stands beside Reuben Bueno Jr., M.D., in a library lined with bookshelves. Bueno wears a white medical coat, and Davis wears a coral embroidered top.
November 3, 2016

Complex facial surgery helps bring back patients’ smiles

When Kelly Davis woke up one morning in April, she told her husband Anthony that she dreamed her face was moving; then she looked in the mirror and saw that it really was.

By Jill Clendening
Two men stand beside an MRI scanner and a specialized radiofrequency coil positioned on the scanner table for wrist imaging.
October 6, 2016

Studies aim to speed, track peripheral nerve recovery

Surgeons have limited tools to successfully repair and track the recovery of peripheral nerves that have been severely damaged as a result of a traumatic injury, but Vanderbilt investigators hope to change this through research studies recently funded with more than $3 million in grants from the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health.

By Jill Clendening
Portrait of Bruce Shack, M.D., smiling in a dark suit and patterned tie.
May 26, 2016

Shack to step down as chair of Plastic Surgery

Bruce Shack, M.D., has announced plans to step down, effective July 1, as chair of the Department of Plastic Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), and he will remain on the faculty as a professor of Plastic Surgery.

By Jill Clendening
Older woman shopping
October 30, 2014

Elderly face no added risk from cosmetic surgery: study

Senior citizens are at no higher risk for complications from cosmetic surgery than younger patients, according to a recent study by plastic surgeons at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

By Vanderbilt Health News
Portrait of John B. Lynch, M.D., wearing a gray suit and red tie.
October 30, 2014

Lynch recalled as pioneer of Plastic Surgery, Burn Center

John B. Lynch, M.D., professor of Plastic Surgery, emeritus, who was former chair of Plastic Surgery and the first director of the Vanderbilt Burn Center when it opened in 1983, died Monday, Oct. 20. He was 85.

By Wayne Wood