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🎓 Graduation Night Last night, we proudly celebrated the graduation of four incredible chief residents — Drs. David Cholok, Farrah Liu, David Perrault, & Ashley Titan. 🌟 We can't wait to see the impact you will make in the field of plastic surgery. Congrats class of 2025! 👏🎉

🛠️ New from Drs. Rahim Nazerali, Cliff Sheckter & Priscila Cevallos, MD: The MICRO Index predicts complications after free tissue transfer using just 7 variables—outperforming Charlson and Elixhauser scores. A step forward in personalized surgical risk. 🔗: thieme-connect.com/products/ejour…

🍽️ This weekend, our outgoing PGY1 interns welcomed the incoming class with a warm dinner and great conversation. A perfect way to connect, reflect, and kick off the year ahead! Priscila Cevallos, MD

New from Arash Momeni in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: First RCT in plastic surgery shows apixaban is as safe as enoxaparin for VTE prevention after autologous breast reconstruction—no VTE events, equal bleeding risk, & it's oral with no injections or monitoring needed. 🔗: tinyurl.com/5d783dru?sf226…

🤖📚 New research from Drs. Paige Fox and Farrah Liu show GPT-4 aced 68% of questions from the Plastic Surgery In-service Exam—matching PGY-1 in 93rd percentile, but only 15th percentile by PGY-6. AI shows promise for surgical education. PRS Global Open 🔗: tinyurl.com/4vwhzzbw?sf226…

🛡️ New in @JPRAS from Dr. Rahim Nazerali: Antibiotic PMMA plates cut infection rates from 16.7% to 4.2% in obese patients undergoing tissue expander breast reconstruction. First study to show benefit in this high-risk group. 🔗: jprasurg.com/article/S1748-…

🦠📈 New national study from Cliff Sheckter: Opioid-associated skin infections are rising—now in 1 in 5 SSTI hospitalizations. Sharpest increases seen in the Northeast, raising concern about emerging threats like xylazine. 🔗: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40513407/?sf22…

🌍 Dr. Rohit Khosla in Huế, Vietnam with ReSurge International for a craniofacial surgical training trip. Honored to collaborate with our incredible partners there, advancing surgical education and global access to care. #GlobalSurgery

🧬🦷 New in Journal of Dental Research from Dr. Jill Helms: Blocking Wnt/β-catenin signaling in the junctional epithelium weakens tooth attachment, disrupts collagen, and increases cell death—highlighting its essential role in gum-tooth barrier integrity. 🔗: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Why do wounds in the mouth heal without scars? New work shows that oral fibroblasts suppress #fibrosis through the proteins AXL and GAS6, and finds stimulating AXL recapitulates these benefits in facial skin wounds in mice. Longaker Lab Stanford Plastic Surgery scim.ag/40oWioT

♻️🛠️ New in Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology from Dr. Paige Fox: Reusable surgical tools can cut carbon emissions by over 50%—without increasing infection risk when sterilized properly. Stanford Department of Medicine 🔗: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

We are excited to introduce a new ReSurge 🤝Stanford Plastic Surgery study that unveils a scalable approach to microsurgery education in low -and middle-income countries, published in the Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery 🔬 Learn more: bit.ly/44Bn0M7