Grants Funded
Grant applicants for the 2024 cycle requested a total of nearly $3 million dollars. The PSF Study Section Subcommittees of Basic & Translational Research and Clinical Research evaluated more than 100 grant applications on the following topics:
The PSF awarded research grants totaling over $650,000 dollars to support more than 20 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.
Holographic Surgical Planning and Telementoring for Craniofacial Surgery
Francis Papay MD
2018
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Translational Research Grant
Technology Based, Cranio / Maxillofacial / Head and Neck
Traditionally, craniofacial (CF) reconstructive surgery has relied on the experienced surgeon's subjective pre- and intra-operative assessment. As the complexity of the surgery increases, it becomes more difficult for less experienced surgeons (e.g., at community hospitals) to perform advanced procedures. Long operation and anesthesia times are an independent predictor of adverse events in CF surgery. HoloLens is a recently released self-contained, head-mounted augmented reality (AR) device that merges real-world and virtual objects to produce a 3D holographic visualization. Accomplishing the objective of our central hypothesis - that a novel AR application developed for the HoloLens has sufficiently accurate measurements to allow effective collaboration during CF surgical planning will ultimately provide holographic telementoring, thereby significantly benefitting less experienced plastic surgeons by decreasing operation time to decrease the contingency of complications. The rationale for this approach is based on two reasons: 1) sharing of the holographic surgical plan can facilitate collaboration and mentoring between well-established academic centers and remote community hospitals; 2) distance measurement is an important surgical decision tool in CF surgical planning, the surgical plan cannot be shared or mentored without accurate dimensional measurements. We have developed a holographic distance measurement tool for a CF surgical planning application with network-enabled HoloLens. By utilizing the novel application, we will perform various dimensional measurements with HoloLens on orbital bones from holographic skulls generated from computed tomography (CT) scan of skulls with deformities (i.e., orbital bone fractures). Then, plastic surgeons will validate standard systems usability for collaborative CF surgical planning application developed for HoloLens. Based on our results we will further develop the holographic planning application to enable sites ranging from academic centers to small regional hospitals to effectively share patient-specific holograms for collaborative surgical planning.
