Grants We Funded
Grant applicants for the 2023 cycle requested a total of nearly $4 million dollars. The PSF Study Section Subcommittees of Basic & Translational Research and Clinical Research evaluated nearly 140 grant applications on the following topics:
The PSF awarded research grants totaling over $1 million dollars to support nearly 30 plastic surgery research proposals.
ASPS/PSF leadership is committed to continuing to provide high levels of investigator-initiated research support to ensure that plastic surgeons have the needed research resources to be pioneers and innovators in advancing the practice of medicine.
Research Abstracts
Search The PSF database to have easy access to full-text grant abstracts from past PSF-funded research projects 2003 to present. All abstracts are the work of the Principal Investigators and were retrieved from their PSF grant applications. Several different filters may be applied to locate abstracts specific to a particular focus area or PSF funding mechanism.
Development of an Interactive, Mutli-media Educational Program To Address Patient Expectations About Breast Reconstruction
Colleen McCarthy MD · Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Development of the FACE-Q Kids PRO Instrument
Anne Klassen PhD · McMaster University, Faculty of Health Sciences
Development of the HEADACHE-Q Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Instrument
Lisa Gfrerer MD, PhD · Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Economic analysis of hand transplantation
Kevin Chung MD, MS · The Regents of the University of Michigan
Electromagnetic Fields and Pectoral Block for Breast Reconstruction Pain Control
Christine Rohde MD, MPH · Columbia University Medical Center
Engineered Tissues with Pervasive, Perfusible & Implantable Capillary Structures
John Morgan MD · Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Enoxaparin metabolism in reconstructive surgery patients
Christopher Pannucci MD · University of Utah
Evaluating High Fidelity Cleft Lip Simulation for Education&Assessing Competence
Carolyn Rogers-Vizena MD · Children's Hospital Boston
Evaluation of Simulation in Plastic Surgery Residency Training
Alexes Hazen MD · New York University School of Medicine
EX-VIVO NORMOTHERMIC HUMAN UPPER EXTREMITY PERFUSION
Bahar Bassiri Gharb MD, PhD · Cleveland Clinic Foundation