At the national plastic surgery meeting, I will help give a course on abdominal wall reconstruction with Dr. Chuck Butler and Dr. Gordan Lee. My topics are the use of prosthetic mesh, and the treatment of infected mesh. I have […]
I participated with Dr. Alex Shin at the 2011 ASSH meeting in Las Vegas, and gave a course on management of symptomatic neuromas. At the national plastic surgery meeting, I will help give a course on abdominal wall reconstruction with
I gave three presentations at the 33rd European hernia society meeting in Ghent, Belgium in May 2011. One was a panel debate on the proper treatment of the open abdomen. A second was a presentation on my results of 100
I distinctly remember my first visit with Dr. Dumanian. I was 6 months post-treatment for Inflammatory Breast Cancer, I felt emotionally and physically defeated and I was pretty sure there wasn’t much that could be done about the way I
It was fun meeting with European hernia surgeons. I spoke on the use of intraabdominal midweight polypropylene meshes, and the issues of the “loss of domain” as they relate to components separation repairs.
Multiple speaking engagements are coming. With Dr. Chuck Butler, I will give a course on abdominal wall reconstruction at the American Society of Plastic Surgery national meeting in Toronto on October 4. The following weekend, I will be an invited
I just returned from giving two lectures at the above course. The first detailed my technique for a direct supported repair using soft prolene mesh to buttress a components separation procedure. The second demonstrated techniques to rearrange the skin and
I gave an interview on the Ethicon “Hernia Discourse” site. I discuss lots of issues regarding the components separation technique, and the use of mesh. It can be found as item number 40, at http://feeds.feedburner.com/herniadiscourse
Chicago Plastic Surgeon Dr. Dumanian combines a excellent training with a caring and attentive bedside manner. He is triple board-certified in plastic surgery, general surgery and hand surgery. He currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Surgery and Program
