In this Leveling Up episode of the PRS Global Open Deep Cuts Podcast, Dr. Snyder-Warwick discussed her recent transition from Wash U to Michigan and how she has handled the switch, the philosophy of time, distance and severity when dealing with nerve injuries, the changes she has made over the years in her facial reanimation and peripheral nerve surgery practices, the relatively new field of corneal neurotization, the importance of personalizing the treatment of facial paralysis to each patient, the usefulness of buccal myomucosal flaps in cleft palate repair, how she involves residents in the management of cleft patients, and where the future of nerve repair and regeneration lies. 

Read a classic PRS Global Open abstract by Dr. Snyder-Warwick and her colleagues, Buccal Myomucosal Flap Repair for Velopharyngeal Dysfunction”: https://bit.ly/BuccalMyomucosalFlapAbstract 

Dr. Alison Snyder-Warwick is a Professor and the Section Head for of Plastic Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She was previously an Associate professor and Residency Program director at the Washington University in St Louis. She completed medical school, a research fellowship, and a plastic surgery residency at Wash U, followed by a pediatric plastic surgery and pediatric microsurgery fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. She has a practice focused on facial nerve reconstruction, peripheral nerve surgery, and pediatric cleft surgery. She is also a prolific researcher with a basic science lab. Dr. Snyder-Warwick is a senior oral examiner for the American board of Plastic Surgery, past chair of the Plastic Surgery Research Council, past Curriculum Committee chair for the American Council of Educators in Plastic Surgery, and Historian of the American Society for Peripheral Nerve.

Your host, Dr. Puru Nagarkar, is a board-certified plastic and hand surgeon, and Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

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