Microvascular Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship
This fellowship program is non-ACGME and non-accredited. The microsurgery fellowship is based on a large clinical referral base from five states and 25% of the area of the United States. The program was started in 2009 and graduated its first fellow in 2010. The fellowship educational experience is intrinsically linked to the UW Medicine Center for Reconstructive Surgery, a multi-disciplinary team with coordinated clinical and academic activities. This is a fellowship in elective microsurgery. Replants are not included. All applicants should review Washington state licensing requirements on the Washington Department of Health website to ensure they meet the criteria for obtaining a Washington state medical license. Please visit Washington State Department of Health Licensing Requirements for more information about WA state licensing requirements.
Names and Current Positions of our fellows in the past 11 years:
2020 Stephen Viviano
2019 Rana Farhadi
University of Edinburgh Medical School
2018 Minh Bao Mundschenk
Kaiser, Sacramento
2017 William Schmitt
Virginia Mason Hospital, Seattle
2016 Theodore A. Kung
University of Michigan
2015 Marie-Pascale Tremblay-Champagne
Université de Montréal, Canada
2014 Manish Champaneria
Scripps, San Diego
2013 Alex Gougoutas
University of Washington
2012 Julie Holding
University of Kansas
2011 Ethan Larson
University of Arizona
2010 James Edwards
Providence Health System—Mill Creek Washington
2009 Kah Woon Leo
Singapore General Hospital
Number of surgeons the fellow will operate with at least every two weeks: 5
Number of hospital sites where this position performs elective cases: 3
Average number of OR day blocks the fellows will attend per week: 3
Average number of clinics that the fellow will attend per week: 1.5
Case components of fellowship:
Free Flaps >300
Complex Non-Microsurgical Reconstruction 50
Nerve Repairs 15
Head and Neck 30
Breast Implant Reconstruction 100
Autologous Tissue Breast Reconstruction 300
Facial Re-animation 15
Specialty cases include functioning muscle transfer for facial re-animation