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.
Partial Wrist Arthrodesis vs MFT Scaphoid Reconstruction: Wrist Kinematics
Sonya Agnew MD · Chicago Association for Research & Education in Science
Particulate Bone for Secondary Inlay Cranioplasty
Arin Greene MD · Children's Hospital Boston
Pathogenesis of Radiation-Induced Capsular Contracture
Joan Lipa MD, MSc., FRCS(C.), FACS · University of Toronto
Patient Generated Data as a Novel Outcomes Instrument in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Brent Degeorge Jr., MD, PhD · Wayne State University
Patient Preferences of Social Media in Plastic Surgery: A Conjoint Analysis
Cindy Wu MD · The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Patient Reported Outcomes Following Upper Extremity Injury
Jeffrey Friedrich MD · University of Washington
Patient Reported Outcomes in Gender Mastectomy
Megan Lane MD · The Regents of the University of Michigan
Patient-Centered Care in Breast Reconstruction
Tiffany Ballard MD · The Regents of the University of Michigan
PEG Hydrogels to Engineer Cartilage
Anestis Papadopulos MD · Massachusetts General Hospital
PEG-pDHA Hydrogrels: A Novel Topical Hemostatic Agent
Jason Spector MD · Weill Cornell Medical College