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2025-26 Visiting Professors

The PSF Visiting Professors instruct plastic surgery residents using their clinical, technical and educational expertise. Plastic surgery training programs benefit from the Visiting Professors' wealth of knowledge and innovative perspectives on plastic surgery represented by the Visiting Professors.

Click each name below to learn more about the Visiting Professors.

Harvey Chim, MD

  • Ultrasound for Perforator Mapping and Flap Planning in Extremity Reconstruction
  • Thin Profunda Artery Perforator (PAP) Flap for Extremity Reconstruction
  • Contemporary Adult Brachial Plexus Reconstruction
  • Neurogenic Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: Principles for Evaluation and Management
  • Distal Nerve Transfers for the Upper Extremity
  • Targeted Muscle Reinnervation for Amputees
  • Toe Transfers
  • SCIP Flaps, KISS, Sequential, Small Perforator Flap Variations

Gabriel Del Corral, MD

  • Algorithmic Strategies for Jaw Feminization: Enhancing Soft Tissue and Skeletal Contours in Gender-Affirming Surgery
  • Comprehensive Approaches to Transfeminine Genital Reconstruction
  • Vaginoplasty Techniques and Considerations: A Comparative Analysis of Surgical Approaches and Outcomes
  • Phalloplasty in Gender-Affirming Surgery: A Stepwise Breakdown of Techniques and Technical Nuances for Plastic Surgeons
  • Evidence-Based Strategies for Prevention and Surgical Salvage in Transmasculine Phalloplasty

Matthew Greives, MD

  • So You Want To Be a Craniofacial Surgeon? Its Easier Than Being an Astronaut
  • The Modern Cleft Palate Repair: Fat, Flaps and Grafts
  • Controversies in Craniosynostosis
  • Vascular Anomalies for the Plastic Surgeon: Updates and Current Techniques
  • Imposter Syndrome
  • Smart Goals

Karol Gutowski, MD

  • Surgical Treatment of Lipedema – The Next Wave of Body Contouring
  • Refining Abdominoplasty Including No-Drain Techniques and Mesh Reinforcement
  • Nonsurgical Facial Rejuvenation with Fillers, Neuromodulators and More
  • Mastopexy and Augmentation Mastopexy Simplified
  • Money Talks: The Business Side of Plastic Surgery
  • Personal Financial Strategies for a Successful Plastic Surgery Career
  • Awake Surgical Procedures: How, Why and for Whom
  • Arm and Leg Contouring with Liposuction and Tissue Excision
  • Practice Transitions: From Academic to Employed to Private Practice and Beyond

Patricia Mars, MD

  • Life Transitions: How My Practice Started and Changed Over 28 Years, Where I Am Now
  • Planning, Building and Running an Outpatient Surgery Center
  • Lessons on Hiring, Training and Firing Employees: What You Need to Know to Start Your Practice
  • Reverse Abdominoplasty Series
  • Uncommon Aesthetic Procedures I Use in My Practice
  • Difficult Cases: Reconstructive Surgery Principles Used in an Aesthetic Surgery Practice

Adeyiza Momoh, MD

  • Optimizing Breast Reconstruction in the Radiated Patient
  • The Interplay Between Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction
  • Innovation in Academic Plastic Surgery
  • Global Surgery Research – Challenges and Opportunities
  • Tips and Tricks for Efficiency in Microsurgery
  • Thinking Aesthetics in Autologous Breast Reconstruction

Seth Thaller, MD

  • Male Aesthetic Surgery: A Unique and Expanding Patient Pool
  • Update and Controversies in Cleft Lip and Palate Repair
  • Volunteerism in Plastic Surgery Based on Two Decades of Personal Experience in Haiti
  • Evolution of Facial Trauma Management From The Great War Which Plastic Surgery Contributed to Victory and Where we are going
  • Tips and Tricks in Plastic Surgery: My Perspective Career Guide to Success in Plastic Surgery
  • Facial Trauma: Where We Were, Where We Are and Where We Are Going

Cristiane M. Ueno, MD, FACS, MBA

  • How Can an MBA Be Integrated Into an Academic Plastic Surgery?
  • Navigating Leadership Spaces as an Academic Plastic Surgeon
  • Pros and Cons of Different Practice Environments: Rural Practice, Group Health Care Models and Large Academic Practices
  • The Politics of Gender-Affirming Care
  • Creating Psychologically Safe Spaces for Educating Medical Students and Residents

Sybile Val, MD, FACS

  • Baby Doc: Solo Private Practice as a New Grad
  • Recon to Aesthetics Versus Aesthetics to Recon
  • The Plastic Surgery Elevator: Building a Practice One Step at a Time
  • Training Versus Trained: Practice IRL
  • Plastics Then and Now

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