In this Leveling Up episode of the PRS Global Open Deep Cuts Podcast, Dr. Justine Lee talked about how she approaches research, how she developed the planning process for adult facial feminization surgeries, what a porcupine forehead guide is, the multidisciplinary Gender Health program for adults at UCLA, the tension between doing surgeries the same way each time and improving the process, the standardized room setup and timed surgical sequencing that she uses for these surgeries, how she uses a female skull to plan the necessary bony changes in adult facial feminization surgery, her switch to preservation rhinoplasty and the use of cadaveric cartilage in rhinoplasty, and the use of prehabilitation to decrease opioid use and improve outcomes. She also discussed her new fellowship at UCLA, how she avoids tunnel vision and keeps herself honest with on-table results during cases, what WWGD means, and her love of Star Trek.

Read a classic "PRS Global Open" article by Dr. Lee and co-authors, "Simplifying Facial Feminization Surgery Using Virtual Modeling on the Female Skull": https://bit.ly/Simplifying_FFS_Lee

Dr. Justine Lee is a Professor and Associate Chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine in Los Angeles, California. She holds the Bernard G. Sarnat Endowed Chair in Craniofacial Biology. Dr. Lee attended UCLA for her undergraduate studies, then completed medical school, a PhD, and Plastic Surgery residency at the University of Chicago. She returned to UCLA as a craniofacial fellow, and then stayed on as a member of the faculty.

Dr. Lee serves as the Experimental Section Editor for the journal "Plastic Reconstructive Surgery," and serves as the chair of the Plastic Surgery Research Council. She received the 2016 UCLA Plastic Surgery Faculty Teaching award.

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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