Scott Lifchez, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Plastic Surgery
Director, Hand Surgery Service
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Research Interests:
- Improving patency of vascular reconstruction of the hand
Clinical Interests:
- Hand surgery
- Plastic surgery
- Disorders of the upper extremity
- Injuries to the brachial plexus
- Traumatic and surgical defects of the trunk
- Head and extremities
- Skin cancer including melanoma
- Re-animation of the face and upper extremity
- Microsurgical free tissue transfer
- Reconstructive and aesthetic plastic surgery
Education:
Scott D. Lifchez, M.D., assistant professor of plastic surgery at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, earned a medical degree at the University of Illinois. He trained in plastic surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin and in hand surgery at the Curtis Hand Center in Baltimore.
Credentials:
Recent Publications:
Lifchez, SD, Higgins, JP, “Long-term results of surgical treatment for hypothenar hammer syndrome,” Submitted to Journal of Hand Surgery, in review.
Lifchez, SD, Dzwierzynski WW, Sanger, JR, “Compression neuropathy of the radial nerve due to ganglion cysts,” Submitted to The Hand, in review.
Lifchez SD, Murphy MS, “Endoscopic carpal tunnel release through a single distal portal,” Techniques in Orthopaedics, 21: 30-34, 2006.
Lifchez SD, Gasparri MG, Sanger JR, LoGiudice JA, Godat DM, Matloub HS, Tisol WB, “Serratus anterior in vivo contractile force study,” Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 116: 839-45, 2005.
Lifchez SD, Marchant-Hanson J, Matloub HS, Sanger JR, Dzwierzynski WW, Nguyen, HH, “Functional improvement with digital prosthesis use after multiple digit amputation,” Journal of Hand Surgery, 30A: 790-4, 2005.
Lifchez SD, Gosain AK, Matloub HS, “Cortical adaptation to restoration of smiling following free muscle transfer innervated by nerve to the masseter,” Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 115:1472, 2005.
Lifchez SD, Sanger JR, Godat DM, Recinos RF, LoGiudice JA, Yan JG, “The serratus anterior subslip: anatomy and implications for facial and hand reanimation,” Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 114: 1068, 2004.
Yousif NJ, Lifchez SD, Nguyen HH, “Transverse rectus sheath plication in abdominoplasty,” Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 114: 778, 2004.
Godat DM, Sanger JR, Lifchez SD, Recinos RF, Yan JG, Godat MR, Ramirez C, Matloub HS, “Detailed neurovascular anatomy of the serratus anterior muscle: implications for a functional muscle flap with multiple independent force vectors,” Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 114: 21, 2004.
Lifchez SD, Larson DL, “Pyoderma gangrenosum after reduction mammoplasty in an otherwise normal patient,” Annals of Plastic Surgery, 49: 410, 2002.
Syrbu S, Thrall RS, Wisniecki P, Lifchez S, Smilowitz HM, “Increased immunoreactive rat lung ICAM-1 in oleic acid-induced lung injury,” Experimental Lung Research, 21: 599, 1995.
Societies:
- American College of Surgeons (2003)
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons (2005)
- American Society for Surgery of the Hand (2005)
Phone: 410-550-0407
Fax: 410-550-1808
Email: slifche1@jhmi.edu
