Speaker Topics: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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Amir Dorafshar, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Dr. Dorafshar graduated from the University of Manchester School of Medicine in the United Kingdom. He trained in both general surgery and plastic surgery at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. Dr. Dorafshar then proceeded to complete a fellowship in Craniofacial Surgery at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center/University of Maryland and The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Dr. Dorafshar holds a joint appointment at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He specializes in adult and pediatric craniofacial surgery and microsurgery following congenital, oncologic, or traumatic conditions. He was a member of the University of Maryland's facial transplant team, which performed the most extensive transplant completed to date, including total face, double jaw and tongue at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.
Dr. Dorafshar is a member of numerous societies including the American Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Association, the American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery and the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons. Dr. Dorafshar has received a number of awards including the Best Reconstruction/Burn Award for his research in subatmospheric wound therapy by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons Senior Residents Conference. Dr. Dorafshar has authored a number of book chapters and has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in basic and clinical sciences focusing on craniomaxillofacial and microsurgical reconstructive surgery, and most recently on facial transplantation.
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Michele Ann Manahan, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Michele Manahan, M.D. is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon practicing reconstructive and cosmetic surgery of the breast as well as face, abdomen, and extremities. She serves in national leadership positions in medical organizations such as the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and state leadership positions in medical organizations such as MedChi. Her passion is patient care. She is dedicated to providing the highest levels of plastic surgical techniques. She is actively researching operative methods to maximize results and minimize complications. She has published multiple book chapters and scientific papers in national peer-reviewed journals. She performs all aspects of plastic surgery with a special focus on the unification of cosmetic and reconstructive surgery of the breast.
Dr. Manahan is originally from Atlanta, GA, where she graduated as Valedictorian from Norcross High School. She attended Harvard University and graduated in three years, obtaining summa cum laude honors, and she was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honors society.
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Ariel Niroomand Rad, M.D. Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Dr. Rad is a plastic surgeon specializing in microvascular breast reconstruction and aesthetic surgery. His focus for breast cancer patients is providing state-of-the-art free flap procedures (DIEP flap, SGAP flap, TUG flap, and SIEA flap). He also performs cosmetic surgery. He participates in surgical missions dedicated to helping patients with cleft lip and palate, burn scars, and birth deformities in underserved countries.
Dr. Rad has published in major peer-reviewed scientific journals and presented at national meetings. At the 2009 American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery meeting, he received a national award for his work on perforator flaps.
Dr. Rad graduated magna cum laude in mechanical engineering at Princeton where he was captain of the NCAA Division I swim team. While at Duke, he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Scholar and studied immunology at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He continued this research for three years in London, England where he became highly accomplished in professional Ballroom and Latin dance. His dance skills were featured in the hit ABC television documentary Hopkins.
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Richard J. Redett, M.D.
Associate Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Dr. Redett obtained his bachelors degree in biology in 1987 from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. After serving four years in the United States Peace Corps in Central Africa, he developed an interest in pursuing a medical career.
In 1995, he received his medical degree with honors from Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire. Dr. Redett has been a member of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine since 1995, and has completed residencies in general surgery and plastic surgery in conjunction with the University of Maryland Shock Trauma. Dr. Redett completed a fellowship in pediatric plastic surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario.
In 1998, Dr. Redett was awarded the Baltimore Academy of Surgery Resident Research Award, the John Stage Davis, Maryland Plastic Surgery Society and the National Capital Washington, DC Plastic Surgery Society Resident Research Award.
Dr. Redett has held professional memberships in the Plastic Surgery Research Council, the American College of Surgeons, American Society of Plastic Surgeons, American Burn Association and the American Cleft Palate Association. He is a frequent presenter and has published over 20 peer reviewed scientific papers and several chapters.
Dr. Redett’s clinical interests include cleft lip and palate and craniofacial disorders, pediatric and adult nerve injuries and pediatric burns. He is the director of the Johns Hopkins Cleft Lip and Palate Center and the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Burn Unit. Through his work in the US and in developing countries abroad, he is dedicated to providing healthcare to children in need.
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Justin Michael Sacks, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Dr. Sacks is an expert in head to toe reconstructive surgery of the body, including the head and neck, breast, chest,abdomen, pelvis and extremities. Among his specialties is reconstructive surgery following post-traumatic injury and oncologic surgery. He is fellowship trained in both hand and microvascular reconstructive surgery.
His research interests involve modalities to induce donor-specific tolerance in composite tissue allograft constructs, such as the face and hand.
Dr. Sacks comes to Johns Hopkins from a faculty appointment at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. He is an associate fellow member of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the American Society of Plastic
Surgeons, American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery and Plastic Surgery Research Council. He is a founding member of the American Society of Reconstructive Transplantation.
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Jaimie Shores, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Clinical Director of Hand Transplantation
Dr. Jaimie Shores is a founding member of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Hand Transplant Program, serving as clinical director of hand transplantation. Before his appointment at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Shores was a core member of the University of Pittsburgh Hand Transplant Program and co-investigator on the IRB-approved clinical study using a novel immunomodulation protocol for hand allotransplantation, which resulted in the first bilateral hand transplant and the first arm transplant in the United States, and the most hands transplanted in the country.
In addition to hand transplantation, Dr. Shores performs general plastic and reconstructive surgery and specializes in microsurgery and surgery of the hand and upper extremity. With his combined orthopedic and plastic surgery hand and upper extremity fellowship training, he is an expert on fractures of the forearm, wrist, and hand, as well as vascular, tendon and nerve injuries and conditions. He also sees general hand surgery conditions such as carpel tunnel syndrome, trigger finger and arthritis.
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