In this Leveling Up episode of the PRS Global Open Deep Cuts podcast, Dr. L. Scott Levin discusses how to manage the operating room and plan for a case, how the concept of orthoplastic reconstruction came about, his approach to teaching in the operating room, the importance of elegance in surgery, how to be successful in microsurgery, and finally, some words of wisdom from the many excellent surgeons he has worked with over the decades.

Read a recent classic PRS Global Open article by Dr. Levin and co-authors, “The Value of an Orthoplastic Approach to Management of Lower Extremity Trauma: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis”: https://bit.ly/PRSGODC_Levin  

L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS, FAOA is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, and a Professor in the Division of Plastic Surgery, and Vice President and Associate Dean for Resource Development at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia. Dr. Levin heads the Hand transplantation program and Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Program at Penn and directed the teams that have performed 4 bilateral hand and arm transplants. 

He was the Board of Regents Chair and served as the Orthopedic Regent of the American College of Surgeons, a past president of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, the world society of reconstructive microsurgery, the American society for reconstructive microsurgery, and the American society of reconstructive transplantation. He was also a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Plastic Surgery. 

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

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