Tag: plastic surgery

  • Nation & World

    New face for chimp-attack victim

    A Connecticut woman who was badly disfigured when she was mauled by a pet chimpanzee in 2009 received a full face transplant during surgery at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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  • Nation & World

    First U.S. full face transplant patient

    Dallas Wiens, who in March became the first person in the United States to receive a full face transplant, described the simple joys of holding his daughter, Scarlette, and smelling lasagna again as he prepared to leave Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital Monday (May 9) for his Texas home.

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  • Nation & World

    Robert M. Goldwyn

    Robert M. Goldwyn graduated from Harvard Medical School and later returned there and became Senior Surgeon at the Peter Bent Brigham and Beth Israel Hospitals.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    HMS professor receives honors for reconstructive microsurgery

    Julian Pribaz of the Department of Plastic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School has been chosen as the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery’s 2011 Harry J. Buncke Lecturer.

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