Speaker Topics: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Speaker Topics: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

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. 

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.

Richard J. Redett, M.D.

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.

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.