Dr. Maria Siemionow, the Cleveland, Ohio, hospital's director of plastic surgery research and head of microsurgery training, had more than 20 years of experience in complex transplants.
"If you're male, you're going to have to go through the rectum, " said Dr. Sayeed Ikramuddin, director of gastrointestinal surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
Dr Stephen Bartlett, director of transplant surgery in Maryland, presented the results of the study to the American Surgical Association.
Wang, director of dermatological surgery and dermatology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center site in Basking Ridge, N.
"In the U.S. we only have three UVA filters that can extend the range of the UVA protection to the long range, " said Steven Wang, director of Dermatologic Surgery and Dermatology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New Jersey.
Frederick Ryckman, director of liver transplant surgery at Cincinnati Children's, was in charge of getting his colleagues on board.
Andrew Lee, director of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Johns Hopkins.
At People's Ninth Hospital in Shanghai, a public hospital that is the city's busiest for cosmetic surgery, there were 50, 000 cosmetic operations in 2011, a 50% increase in five years, according to Qi Zuoliang, deputy director of the plastic-surgery department.
Awareness is also the main message for Dr. Anne Wallace, professor of surgery and director of the Moores Breast Cancer Program at the University of California-San Diego.
Dr. Backous is the Medical Director of the Center for Hearing and Skull Base Surgery at Swedish.
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The Nemours Cardiac Center's creator and director is Dr. William Norwood, a trailblazer in the development of reconstructive heart surgery.
Until recently the best chance to avoid post-op impotence was so-called nerve-sparing surgery, a procedure pioneered in 1982 by Patrick Walsh, director of the Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
"We're hopeful that this will be -- quite possibly -- the last major surgery that Max will need, " said Michael Silka, co-director of The Heart Institute at the hospital.
Someone's decision to transition does not necessarily mean they are undergoing gender reassignment surgery, and in many cases they do not, said Mara Keisling, executive director of the Washington-based National Center for Transgender Equality.
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"There is no doubt that the surgery performed in Pakistan was life-saving, " Dr. Dave Rosser, medical director of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, UK, said Wednesday at a news conference.
The Mets said the 34-year-old left-hander was operated on at the Hospital for Special Surgery, where team medical director David Altchek repaired a tear in the capsule in the front of his left shoulder.
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