Curriculum Vitae

BIRTH:

March 2, 1953, Mobile, Alabama

EDUCATION:

Meridian High School, Meridian, Mississippi 1967-1971

EDUCATION HONORS:

Vice President - Graduating Class

Vice President - Meridian Key Club

Vice President - Mu Alpha Theta, Honorary Math Society

Vice President - Fellowship of Christian Athletes

National Honor Society, Football Team

COLLEGE:

Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi 1971-1975

B.A., Chemistry, University of Mississippi, Oxford Graduate Studies 1975-1976

COLLEGE HONORS:

Dean's List Scholar

President - Graduating Class

President - Millsaps Kiwanis Club

Student Government Executive Committee

Projects Chairman - Kappa Alpha Order

Listed - Who's Who Among American Colleges & Universities (1975)

MEDICAL SCHOOL:

University of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, MD Degree (March 1980) 1976-1980

Emory University School of Medicine, Rotations in Trauma and Neurosurgery 09/79-12/79

MEDICAL SCHOOL HONORS:

Vice President - Mississippi Family Practice Club 1976-1977

SURGERY RESIDENCY:

Medical University of South Carolina, Spartanburg General Hospital Branch, Spartanburg, South Carolina 07/80-07/85

EXTRACURRICULAR ROTATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS:

Rotation in Plastic Surgery at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 01/82

Rotation in Trauma and Pediatric Surgery at Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina 07/82-12/82

Microsurgery Course at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 02/82

Rotation in Hand and Microsurgery at University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 06/83

Established first Microsurgery Training Laboratory for University of South Carolina, Department of Surgery, Spartanburg, South Carolina 06/85

Passed Qualifying Exam for American Board of General Surgery 11/85

POST-SURGICAL TRAINING:

Christine Kleinert Memorial Fellowship in Hand Surgery, University of Louisville, Jewish Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky 07/85-06/86

PLASTIC SURGERY RESIDENCY:

University of California, San Francisco, California 07/86-06/88

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Passed Qualifying Exam for American Board of Plastic Surgery 11/86

PRACTICE HISTORY:

Hand and Microsurgery Associates 1995-Present

Hand Associates of South Texas, P.A. 1990-1994

The Plastic Surgery Center, P.A., Bradenton, Florida 1988-1990

PRIVATE PRACTICE ACHIEVEMENTS:

Doctor of the Year, Manatee Memorial Hospital, Emergency Room Services 1989

Alternate Surgeon of the Year, Manatee Hospital 1989 & 1990

Passed Certifying Exam for American Board of Plastic Surgery 11/90

Passed Qualifying Exam for American Board of Plastic Surgery 11/89

Passed Certifying Exam for Additional Qualifications for Hand Surgery 07/92

Active Member of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 10/90

Fellow of the American College of Surgeons 10/93

Elected Active Member of the American Society of Surgery of the Hand 09/93

Elected Active Member of the American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Scottsdale, Arizona 11/92

Elected Member of the American Association of Hand Surgery, Phoenix, Arizona 1997

Life Member of the National Registry of Who's Who 9/1998

Member of the Bexar County Medical Society 7/1993

Member of the San Antonio Surgery Society 9/1993

Chief of Plastic Surgery Department, St. Luke's Baptist Hospital 2002

Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, Texas 1993-Present

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

1. "Who Really Needs Digital Sympathectomy?", Review of the surgical experience at the University of Louisville, with updated indications for the procedure, presented at the 1986 Annual Joint Meeting of Louisville, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis Hand Center at Louisville, Kentucky.
2. Above also presented at the 1986 Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Surgical Society, Nashville, Tennessee.
3. Above also presented at the 1987 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, San Antonio, Texas.
4. "The Lateral Arm Free Flap", teaching video presented at the Annual Meeting for the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Atlanta, Georgia (August 1987).
5. "The Lateral Arm Fasciocutaneous Flap", contribution in Free Skin and Composite Flaps in Operative Hand Surgery, 2nd Edition, D.P. Green (Editor), Churchill Livingstone Press, New York (1988).
6. "Treatment of Muscle Herniation Through Tensor Fascia Defects", W.I. Coleman, M.D., Stephen Mathes, M.D., to Nao Wang, M.D., Perspectives in Plastic Surgery (October 1987).
7. "Vascular Disorders in the Upper Extremity", chapter in Plastic Surgery: Principle and Practice, S.I. Mathes, M.D., M.J. Jurkiewicz, M.D. (Editors), the C.V. Mosby Company, St. Louis, Missouri (1990).
8. "Update of Indications and Results for Digital Artery Sympathectomy", co-presenter with Jean-Pierre Daigle, M.D. and Tsu-Minh Tsai, M.D., American Society for Surgery of the Hand, Toronto, Canada (October 1990).
9. "What's New in Hand and Microsurgery", presented at the Annual Scientific Conference of the International Society of Clinical Plastic Surgeons, San Antonio, Texas (November 1991).
10. "Free Flaps for Salvage of Replanted Digits", Invited Commentary, Annual Meeting of Texas Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, South Padre Island, Texas (May 1993).
11. "Pulse Oximeters for Monitoring Replantations", presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Hand Surgery, Cancun, Mexico (December 1993).
12. "Microscrew Fixation Techniques for Hand Fractures, A Review of 100 Cases", presented at the Annual Meeting for the American Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, San Diego, California (November 1994).
13. "One Stick Anesthetic Block Techniques for Fingers and the Hand", presented at the Annual Meeting of the AAHS, Marcos Island, Florida (January 1995).
14. "Six Year Experience with the Tsai Dorso-Lateral Neurovascular Island Flap", teaching video presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Tuscan, Arizona (January 1996).
15. "Needle Scarification of Unstable Collateral Ligaments", correspondence newsletter for the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (April 1996).
16. "A Method for Replacing Arterial Defects in the Hand", correspondence newsletter for the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgeons (December 1996).
17. "Small Fragment Articular Fractures", correspondence newsletter for American Society for Surgery of the Hand (January 1997).
18. "Update and History of Tumescent Liposuction", invited presentation for the University of Texas Health Science Center, Department of Nursing Continuing Medical Education Seminar, San Antonio, Texas (August 1997).