Journal of Surgery and Operative Care

Dr. Gregory Kouraklis is currently working as Chairman of Surgery in the School of Medicine at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He obtained his M.D. from the University of Athens, Greece. He did his postgraduate education in Greece and USA, he holds the specialty of General Surgery, with special interest in Surgical Oncology. He worked as Editorial Board member and as reviewer for many journals. He has published more than 225 scientific publications in peer reviewed international journals, plus 150 in National journals and more than 200 presentations in International Scientific Meetings or Congresses.

Research: Dr. Gregory Kouraklis research interests include Tumour cells, anal fistula upper abdominal surgery and gastric cancer.

Dr. Domenico Rubello is the Director of Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Unit, Rovigo Hospital, Italy. He obtained the post-graduate Academic Degree in Nuclear Medicine in 1993 at Padova University, Italy. He is an esteemed member of many professional associations, and has been invited as speaker and/or chairperson and/or reviewer of scientific papers at more than 400 international and national congresses, symposia, courses, etc. He is also a member of the Editorial Board and/or Reviewe of various scientific journals. Dr. Domenico Rubello performes more than 120 peer-revisions per year and He is author of more than 1000 scientific papers.

Research: The principal fields of scientific research of Dr. Rubello in the last years are listed below: PET/CT  experimental research in animals and in humans Small animal PET Nuclear medicine and radiology animal study (rat and monkey) Kinetic and biodistribution studies of positron emitter radio-tracers in oncology and neurology (18-Fluoro-Choline, 18-Fluoro-DOPA, 18-Fluoro-Timidine, 11-Carbon-Methionine) Comparison between scintigraphic imaging and morphologic imaging (US, CT scan, MRI) in head and neck diseases and in oncology, pneumology, endocrine tumours PET-CT in oncology and radiotheraphy planning Physiology and pathophysiology of endocrine tumours Development of new PET radio-tracers labelled with 68-gallium-labelled compounds, 11C-labelled compounds, and 18F-labelled compounds Development of new PET softwares for oncologic examinations PET and molecular imaging Radio-guided surgery of thyroid cancer Radio-guided surgery of parathyroid adenomas, sentinel lymph node biopsy; Radioiodine treatment of thyroid cancer, Diagnosis and treatment of neuroendocrine tumours.

Dr. Kelli Bullard Dunn, MD, FACS, FASCRS, has served as Senior Associate Dean for Statewide Initiatives and Outreach at the University of Louisville School of Medicine since May 1, 2013. Dr. Bullard Dunn is a Professor of Surgery, and has also served as Associate Director for Clinical Programs and Director of the Colon and Rectal Cancer Multidisciplinary Program at the James Graham Brown Cancer Center (JGBCC) since 2011. She is board certified in both general surgery and in colon and rectal surgery, and has longstanding interest in the diagnosis and treatment of colorectal and anal cancers, precancerous conditions, hereditary malignancies, and other colorectal conditions. Dr. Bullard Dunn received her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. She trained in general surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, and in colon and rectal surgery at the University of Minnesota. She served on the faculty at the University of Minnesota from 2001 to 2005. She was then recruited to Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) and the University at Buffalo/SUNY in 2005, and served as Division Chief for Colon and Rectal Surgery from 2009 to 2011. Dr. Bullard Dunn joined the faculty of the University of Louisville and the JGBCC in October, 2011. Dr. Bullard Dunn’s research interests focus on the growth and progression of colorectal carcinoma. Her work has been recognized by receipt of the VFW Surgical Oncology Researcher Award, the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Career Development Award, the Society of University Surgeons Foundation Junior Faculty Award, and the Wyeth-Society of University Surgeons Foundation Clinical Scholar Award. She was previously a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Colorectal Cancer Screening Committee and was the RPCI Principal Investigator for the NCCN Multi-Institutional Colon/Rectal Outcomes Project. She served for six years on the Research Committee of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Foundation (ASCRSRF), and currently serves as a Trustee for the ASCRSRF. She also serves on the American College of Surgeons Board of Governors. Dr. Bullard Dunn is a member of the Executive Council of the Society of University Surgeons, the Board of Trustees for the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Research Foundation, the American Surgical Association, the American College of Surgeons, the Association for Academic Surgery, the Association for Surgical Education, the American Medical Association and the Association of Women Surgeons. She is Section Editor for the Current Status section of Diseases of the Colon and Rectum and serves on the editorial boards of the World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery and CME Today. She is also an Associate Examiner for the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery. She has authored more than 130 journal articles, book chapters, and abstracts, and has lectured nationally and internationally about colon and rectal diseases.  Dr. Bullard Dunn has been named as one of the Best Doctors in America and one of America’s Top Surgeons.

Dr. J. Philip Boudreaux is a Professor of Surgery, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. He is a Director of Liver, Pancreas/Kidney Transplantation Program, Division of Transplantation, Transplant Institute of New Orleans, Louisiana. He is one of the Board of Directors, Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency (LOPA). He is a member in various international organizations. He is an Ad editor/reviewer for Louisiana State Medical Society Journal. He has number of publications on his name.

Dr. William H. Marx is currently working as an Advisory Dean and as a Professor of Surgery and Critical Care at Suny Upstate Medical University, United States. He held several positions in his career and received many honors and rewards. He published various articles in international journals.  

Research: Dr. William H. Marx research is mainly focused on trauma, ARDS, mechanical ventilation and trauma systems.

Dr. Jacques Marescaux was born on August 4, 1948, as the eldest in a family of academics and servicemen. His father was a histology Professor at Strasbourg’s school of medicine and his grandfather was a major-general. In 1971, he came first at the Residency program’s examinations, which allowed him to choose his training ship. The different semesters of the residency allowed him to discover the joys of gynecology, the strictness of orthopedic surgery, the subtleties of cardiovascular surgery and the diversity of visceral surgery, a field that he would finally choose. It quickly became obvious to him that surgery could not be isolated either from its scientific context or from its applied clinical research. This is why he quickly joined an INSERM (French Health and Medical Research National Institute) team dedicated to digestive pathologies. This scientific cooperation allowed him to be promoted as chief resident in 1975, University Professor for Digestive Surgery in 1980, and then head of department in 1989.In 1992, he came up with the idea of creating an original center for research and training in partnership with leaders of the surgical industry. This would allow him to: - Develop research using different criteria for excellence from national institutes, as these uniformly implement rules adapted to the main disciplines, but miles away from real clinical issues - Start the future technological revolutions in the field of surgery, and not to fall behind them - Integrate new means of telecommunication, as this has become a great challenge on a cultural, political and global scale. He is convinced that surgeons should not only participate to this new information era, but mostly be its best ambassador. These ideas came to life with the inauguration of the IRCAD (Research Institute Against Digestive Cancer) and the EITS (European Institute of Telesurgery) in June 1994. In this center, researchers, IT technicians, robot engineers and internationally renowned surgical experts would congregate. Virtual reality is one of the Institute’s most important axes. It translates real data into digital data, thus allowing to turn a medical scan into a virtual 3D clone of the patient. The surgeon can then prepare the procedure on the patient’s virtual clone, as these simulations are becoming increasingly realistic. During the intervention, the superimposition of virtual data on real data (Augmented Reality) permits a transparent view that should soon allow for the automation of complex surgical movements. This automation will only be possible by developing the field of surgical robotics, another domain in which The main objective of the IRCAD is to develop less invasive surgery. Therefore, a new concept was started in 2004 with the project ANUBIS. It is called “transluminal surgery through natural orifices”, a technique which leaves no cutaneous or muscular scars. This project, certified by the competitiveness pole for therapeutic innovations, allowed for the development of new surgical instruments and authorized the IRCAD team to perform the first surgical intervention through natural orifices on April 2, 2007 (Archives of Surgery 2007;142:823-826). In 2000, the IRCAD-EITS implemented a Virtual online University, WeBSurg, resulting from the need to maintain the link between the training center and the surgeons. This website features contents elaborated exclusively by healthcare professionals. These contents are peer-reviewed and accredited by the most prestigious International Scientific Societies. WeBSurg encapsulates high-quality technology with high-speed multimedia communication systems to broadcast pre-recorded surgical interventions, the respect for cultural and linguistic diversity - the website is available in 6 different languages: French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese -, and charge-free access, which is of great importance, especially in developing countries. WeBSurg is the true implementation of the future’s Virtual University in the field of minimal access surgery. It is particularly well-suited to surgical education, as it allows international surgeons, whatever the specialty, to share their expertise and know-how among themselves. At present, WeBSurg has 300,000 active members regularly logging on to the website. Given the tremendous success of IRCAD’s program, Jacques Marescaux also created a branch of the IRCAD in Taiwan (under the name of Asia IRCAD-AITS). This center was inaugurated on May 26, 2008. A new mirror institute has opened in Barretos, Sao Paulo’s state, Brazil, in July 2011. Professor Marescaux’s teaching hospital experience and background, as well as the genuine and beneficial links he had set with the Industry, made it possible for him to be appointed President of the Alsace Region’s International Therapeutic Innovation Pole from 2005 to 2007. The spur he brought consisted in counter-balancing the idea of health expenditure control by prioritizing research and innovation. Instead of considering the escalation of health expenditures as a preoccupying ongoing process, he believed it had to be identified as an opportunity for development, competition and innovation, hence creating new jobs and encouraging economic growth. Such an evolution requires cultural change, which leads to the creation of bioclusters developing diverse methods committed to the future of the field, biotechnologies, nanotechnologies, imaging studies, robotics and computer-aided systems, as the only way of bridging the large technological gap between Europe and the United States of America, Japan, and soon, China. In the same spirit, Professor Marescaux has initiated a Biocluster project within the IRCAD’s compounds. It hosts, since January 2014, a score of 20 start-up companies in the area of medical devices (National Stud Farm Project). Concomitantly, Professor Marescaux came up with a new concept: the University Hospital Institute. The objective is to create an Institute for Image-Guided Minimally Invasive Surgery aimed at developing a new surgical discipline combining the skills and know-how of laparoscopic surgeons, gastroenterologists and interventional radiologists. This project, which tied first place in the "Investissement d'Avenir" ranking put together by an International Jury in April 2011, represents a 227.3 million Euro budget, financed by the French Grand Loan. By 2015, a new 10,000 sq m building located between the IRCAD and the Nouvel Hôpital Civil will accommodate a unique and new kind of platform for patients: 7 hybrid surgical units dedicated to digestive surgery which will incorporate medical imaging (MRI/CT-scan) to a surgical environment. Jacques Marescaux was invited to deliver more than 380 speeches in many European, American, Japanese, and Chinese Universities or Schools of Medicine, amongst which the "Address to Diplomates" he gave at the Royal College of Surgeons in London, the Nobel Lecture he gave in Stockholm, and the Fogarty Lecture he gave at Stanford University. He also presented a conference entitled “The Anatomic Lesson” at the Amsterdam Medical Center as well as the Antoni de Gimbernat Lecture “New technologies in minimally invasive surgery” at the “XIX Jornades de Cirurgia Als Hospitals de Catalunya” in Barcelona.

Dr. Mark Laftavi began his training in transplantation as a Fellow in Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation in Lyon, France, under the tutelage of Dr. J.M. Dubernard in 1991.  Over the last 20 years, his clinical training in transplantation has been extensive. He continued his training in Pancreas Transplantation at the University of Minnesota with Dr. David Sutherland. Afterwards, he completed a Fellowship in Kidney, Pancreas and Liver transplantation at Rush Medical Center in Chicago and a Fellowship in Liver Transplantation at Mt. Sinai University in New York with Dr. Charles Miller. Supported by this extensive clinical experience, he joined the faculty at Hahnemann University in Philadelphia in July 1999 as an Assistant Professor of Surgery where he was able to make an immediate impact on the program. They were able to successfully transplant over one hundred kidneys in one year for the first time in the history of the institution. He participated in several multi-centers and single-center initiated clinical trials. This experience provided him the expertise required to conduct human investigational clinical trials.  It is with this background in both basic and clinical research, as well as a sound foundation in clinical transplantation, that he joined the Faculty of the University at Buffalo in July 2001 as an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Director of Pancreas Transplantation. In 2006, he was offered the position of Chief, Transplant Division at Temple University, Philadelphia. He did not accept this post because the Departmental Chief of Surgery at UB, the Vice President of Health Sciences at UB and the leadership of Kaleida Health all appealed him to remain in Buffalo at UB in order to maintain and expand the multi-organ transplant program at Buffalo General Hospital. At that time, he was promoted to Associate Professor of Surgery.  In 2008, he was honored by the joint scientific committee of the American Society of Transplantation (AST) and American Society of Transplant Surgeon (ASTS) to serve as an abstract reviewer and moderator for the American Transplant Congress (ATC) in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Dr. Girja Shukla is presently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at University of Vermont College of Medicine, United States. He has 37 years of research experience in Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology, which include the last 10 years of experience in Targeted Cancer Therapy. He is member in various international societies. He is an Editorial board member and reviewer for various international journals.

Dr. Jonathan Todd Carter is presently working as an Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery, Surgery, University of California - San Francisco, United States. He is Medical Director for Information Technology, Surgical Programs. He is an active member of the American College of Surgeons, Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. Dr. Carter is a member of the Bariatric Surgery Program, Section of Gastrointestinal Surgery, and Surgical Hospitalist Program within the Division of General Surgery. Dr. Jonathan Todd Carter clinical interests are obesity, metabolic disease, and diseases of the foregut (paraesophageal hernia, esopheal motility disease, and gastroesophageal reflux disease).  He performed advanced laparoscopic (minimially-invasive) surgery to treat these diseases. His other clinical interests are the treatment of hernia and acute care surgery. Major clinical activities include the UCSF Bariatric Surgery Program and the UCSF Acute Care Surgery Hospitalist program.

Research: Dr.  Jonathan Todd Carter’s areas of interests include Foregut, gastrointestinal, bariatric, advanced laparoscopic (minimally-invasive) surgery, hernia, and acute care surgery. Medical informatics and electronic medical records.

Dr. Richard Simman has been practicing in the Dayton area for over a decade. He is a Board Certified Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, also a founding member and past president of the American College of Certified Wound Specialists. He is also the founding president and chair of the American Board of Wound Medicine and Surgery. Dr. Simman is a clinical Associate Professor in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Department of Surgery and Associate Research Professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Wright State Boonshoft School of Medicine. His endowment with Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine aims to fund the graduate student research. His background includes training in General Surgery at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Columbia University in New York, NY and a Plastic Surgery residency at Providence Hospital and Medical Centers in Southfield, MI under the supervision of Dr. Ian T. Jackson, a world famous plastic surgeon.  In addition, he completed a Burn Fellowship followed by a Research Fellowship at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. As an active clinician and researcher, his work has been published in numerous major journals including, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Annals of Plastic Surgery, Aesthetics of Plastic Surgery, The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, Wounds, Academic Emergency Medicine, Advances in Skin and Wound Care and The Journal of the American College of Certified Wound Specialists.  He is an active member of numerous medical associations.  Dr. Simman is currently the Editor in Chief of the Journal of American College of Clinical Wound Specialists. He is the Medical Director of the wound care program at Kindred Hospital of Dayton. Dr. Simman also chairs the annual wound symposium on Advancing the Standards in Wound Care held in Dayton, Ohio.  

Professor Prabhakaran is Head and Senior Consultant for the Department of Paediatric Surgery at the National University Hospital. He is also the Director of Paediatric Organ Transplant Programme and Professor of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He has presided over many committees and review boards such as Chairman of Specialist Training Committee and Special Accreditation board in Paediatric Surgery in Singapore. He did his sub-speciality training in Paediatric Surgery from 1983 to 1984 in Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. He also underwent training in Liver transplantation in Cambridge, UK (1990) and in Pittsburgh, USA (1995). He pioneered liver transplantation in Singapore in 1990. His involvement in this area has also seen pioneering transplants performed in countries like Malaysia and Indonesia. His other clinical interests include paediatric hepatobiliary disorders, paediatric urology and paediatric surgical oncology. He was awarded the National Outstanding Clinician Award 2012 at the National University Hospital, Singapore.

Dr. Michael Charles Morris is presently working as an Associate Professor for Solid Organ Transplantation at University of Nebraska Medical Center, United States. He worked as a Transplant Surgeon and Director, Section of Transplantation at Albert Einstein Medical Center/Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He was a Director, Solid Organ Transplantation at Avera McKennan Transplant Center, Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center. He is member in various international societies and Committes.

Dr. Stephen Michael Kavic is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, earning a B.A. in chemistry. He attended medical school at the Yale University School of Medicine. He also received his general surgery residency training at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he served as administrative chief resident. He completed a two-year fellowship in Minimally Invasive Surgery at the University of Maryland. At present he is an Associate Professor of Surgery at University of Maryland School of Medicine. In addition to being board certified in general surgery, Dr. Kavic has authored or co-authored 25 peer-reviewed scientific papers and chapters. He is also a member of the Association for Surgical Education, Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, the Association for Academic Surgery, and the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons.

Research: Dr. Stephen Michael Kavic's clinical interests include minimally invasive abdominal surgery, surgery of the gastrointestinal tract, endoscopy, and the surgical treatment of anorectal disease. He has pursued multiple research projects on colon cell adhesion, clinical outcomes, and quality of life studies.

Dr. Liang-Shun Wang is a Professor at Graduate Institute of clinical medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan. He is a Vice Superintendent at Shuang Ho Hospital-Taipei Medical University, Taiwan. He is reviewer and Editorial board member of various international journals. He is member in various international societies. 

Dr. Nicola Balato is an Associate Professor of Dermatology at University of Naples Federico II, School of Medicine, Naples, Italy. He is a member in various international societies. He has number  of publications to his name.Dr. Nicola Balato’s area of interest includes Atopic dermatitis, Biologics, Contact dermatitis, clinical and basic aspects. Epidemiology, Pediatric Dermatology, Psoriasis and Urticaria.

Dr. Tomas A. Salerno is Professor of surgery, Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital and tenured Professor of Surgery at University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, United States. He is Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery at Miller School of Medicine. He is a member in various international societies. He is an Honorary President of Latin American Association of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons. He is an Editorial board member and reviewer for various international journals. He held various positions in different universities. He has number of publications of his name.

Research: Dr. Tomas A. Salerno’s research interest includes Myocardial protection, warm heart surgery, off pump cardiac surgery.

Dr. Malcolm Kenneth Robinson is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, United States. He is member in Nutrition Division at Harvard Medical School. He is a member in various international Societies. He is an Editorial board member and reviewer for various international journals.    

Research: Dr. Malcolm Kenneth Robinson’s research interests includes bariatric surgery, cost containment, general surgery, parenteral and enteral access, laparoscopic surgery, nutrition and metabolic support.

Dr. Guirong Wang is an  Associate Professor of Surgery at SUNY Upstate Medical University, United States.

Dr. Akira Sasaki is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Japan. He was the Chief for Division of endoscopic surgery, Department of Surgery at Iwate Medical University. He was honored with Ohgami award, Japan Society for Endoscopic Surgery in 2008. He is member in various international societies.

Dr. Cerezal Garrido is Graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the Valladolid University in 1991. He obtained the expertise in Thoracic Surgery in 1996, after complete the residence at Valladolid University Hospital, where he served as Medical Specialist and Director of Surgery until 2004. Doctor in Medicine and Surgery with rating outstanding “cum laude” by the Valladolid University in 2009. Currently he is Clinical Chief of Thoracic Surgery at General University Hospital in Alicante and Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery at the Medical school of the University Miguel Hernandez in Alicante. In the course of his work has contributed as author or coauthor in 70 publications in various national and international journals, in 130 scientific papers in Congresses, and has received several specific training courses on minimally invasive thoracic surgery and surgical treatment of bronchogenic carcinoma.

Dr. Peter Schemmer is a Professor and Vice Chairman, Head of the Sections of Liver Surgery and Transplant Surgery, Department of General -, Visceral- and Transplant Surgery at University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany. His clinical focus is on both oncological surgery (upper GI, lower GI, HPB, endocrine, etc.) including laparoscopic techniques and transplant surgery (liver, kidney, pancreas). He is Honorary member of the Lithuanian Association of Transplantologists and member in various international societies. He is an Editorial board member and reviewer for numerous journals.

Research: Dr. Peter Schemmer’s areas of interests include Surgical Oncology, Liver Surgery, Transplant Surgery, Ischemia Reperfusion Injury, Pancreatic Surgery, Kupffer cells, Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), Cholangiocellular carcinoma (CCC), Liver regeneration and Living related transplantation.

Dr Jimmy So is an Associate Professor of Surgery at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Senior Consultant Surgeon and Director, Upper GI Surgery Service & Center for Obesity Management and Surgery, University Surgical Cluster, National University Hospital (NUH) and Head, Upper GI Tumour Group, National University Cancer Institute of Singapore (NCIS). Dr. So received his surgical training in National University Hospital, Singapore, and underwent a fellowship training in surgical endoscopy at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr Jimmy So’s special interests are in gastroesophageal cancer, minimally invasive surgery, GI endoscopy, surgery for obesity and diabetes mellitus. He has published over 85 peer reviewed scientific papers and received many research grants for his research work on these topics. His research work received a Gold award at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the National Healthcare Group of Singapore in 2008, and Poster of Distinction at Digestive Disease Week, Chicago, 2010. He was invited to give lectures at scientific meetings of International Gastric Cancer Association (IGCA), Japanese Gastric Cancer Association (JGCA), Korean Gastric Cancer Association, and, and the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgery.  He served as editor for Journal of Gastric Cancer, and peer reviewer for many journals including British Journal of Surgery and Surgical Endoscopy. He was the founding chairman of the 1st Asia Pacific Gastroesophageal Cancer Congress in 2006.

Dr. Thiam-Chye is an Associate Professor of Surgery at National University of Singapore, Singapore. He is a Senior Consultant & Head of Division of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery and Department of Surgery at National University Hospital. He is a member in various international committees. He received a Prestigious Award (Institute of Engineers, Singapore) (2005) for Development of the Bioresorbable devices in Skeletal reconstruction. He is reviewer for various international journals

Dr. Giuseppe Murdaca has received his PhD in Science and Space Engineering at the University of Genova (Italy) during the period of 2000-2003. Currently, he is working as Assistant professor in Internal Medicine University of Genova (Italy). He is an Editorial board member for various international journals. He is a member in international societies. His research has included Immunodeficiency, Autoimmunity, Neuro-endocrino-immunology and Pharmacogenomics.

Dr. Fernando A. Herrera Jr. grew up in the Midwest where he obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas.  He then attended medical school at Boston University in Massachusetts. After completing his medical school education in 2003 he then moved west to Sunny California where he completed general surgery residency at the University of California, San Diego. He then remained in California completing his orthopedic hand surgery fellowship as well as completing a residency in Plastic & Reconstructive surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine.  After completing his training in 2012 he returned to the East coast accepting a position at Medical University of South Carolina as Assistant Professor in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive surgery. Dr. Herrera currently practices general plastic and reconstructive surgery, cosmetic, and hand surgery.  He treats all conditions of the skin as well upper extremity surgery.

Research: Dr. Herrera’s research interests include Dupuytens disease, reconstructive plastic surgery, and upper extremity surgery.

Dr. Rajiv Mahendru is currently working as a professor at Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, BPS Govt Medical college for Women, India. He received his Post-Graduate Degree in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from Himachal Pradesh University. He has 41 Publications in reputed journals and is the recipient of a prestigious Award for excellence in Medical field.

Research: Dr. Rajiv Mahendru research is mainly focused on Infertility, High risk pregnancy, Minimal access surgery including laparoscopy in Gynaecology, Hysteroscopy, Gynae oncology.