Board Certification
American Board of Surgery
American Board of Plastic Surgery

Education
Universtiy of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
August 1989 to May 1993 M.D. Degree
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry
August 1987 to May 1989
Kansas State University
August 1983 to May 1987 B.S. Degree

Teaching Experience
Teaching Faculty Huntington Memorial Hospital General Surgery Residency Program.
Didactic lectures given on a regular basis, teaching rounds, supervision of surgical procedures with operative teaching, and supervisor of resident clinic weekly.
Fellowship at Harvard Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Duties included both didactic teaching of residents and supervision of surgical procedures with operative teaching.
Head and Neck Anatomy Lab Teaching Assistant
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry
January 1990
January 1988 to May 1988
Gross Anatomy Lab Teaching Assistant
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Dentistry
August 1987 to December 1987

Honors
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine Award
Special Achievement and Excellence in Basic Science and Plastic Surgery Research 1993
Dental School Class Officer
Chemical Engineering Scholarship - Kansas State University
Chemical Engineering Award - Kansas State University
Chemical Engineering Honors Program – Kansas State University
State of Kansas Scholar 1983-84 and 1984-85
National Honor Society
Kansas State University Award for Outstanding Student in Math and Sciences

Publications
Ultrasound Characteristics of Breast Carcinoma
Brian Cox, M.D., Kevin M. Kelly, M.D., Peter Ko, M.D., Lars Hertzog, M.D.,
Steven C. Stain, M.D. American Surgeon 1998; 64: 934-38.
Endoscopic, Aesthetic, & Reconstructive Surgery
Gordon Sasaki, M.D. Lippincott-Raven, 1996
Contributing Author
Enhancement of Skin Contraction By Dermal Injury In Sprague-Dawley Rats
Published in the proceedings of the American Society of Plastic &
Reconstructive Surgeons Clinical Congress 1994. Contributing Author.
Osseous Expansion Of The Cranial Vault by Craniotasis
Published May 1992, Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Recognized in article as contributor

Research
Evaluation of Strength of Various Cranioplasty Materials in a Rabbit Model – 2000
Evaluation of Treatment of Mandibular Fractures in a Level III trauma center - 2000
Cost and Outcome of Reduction Mammoplasty - 1999
Colonic Volvulus: Diagnosis and Treatment in a Community Hospital – 1998
Ultrasound Characteristics of Breast Carcinoma – 1997
Measurement of Bladder Pressure During Laparoscopic Surgery – 1997
Measurement of Bladder Pressure as an Indicator of Increased Intra-abdominal Pressure
After Abdominoplasty – 1996, 2002
Mediolytic Arteritis as a Rare Cause of Spontaneous Intra-abdominal Hemorrhage – 1996
Retrospective Review of Multiple Rib Fractures in Patients Greater Than Fifty Years Old
at a Community Hospital – 1995
Use of Steroids to Prevent Graft Contracture in MeEndoe Vaginal Reconstruction – 1994
Enhancement of Skin Contracture by Dermal Injury in Sprague-Dawley Rats – 1994

Presentations
Use of Porous Polyethylene for Cranioplasty
American Society of Plastic Surgeons National Meeting October 2000
Use of Porous Polyethylene for Cranioplasty
Harwell Wilson Surgical Society Meeting, Memphis, TN May 2000
Use of Porous Polyethylene for Cranioplasty
Tennessee Society for Plastic Surgery Meeting
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN March 2000
Facelift: Anatomy and Techniques
University of Tennessee Memphis, Department of Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds March 2000
Cost and Outcome of Reduction Mammaplasty
California Society of Plastic Surgeons Meeting, San Francisco, CA May 1999
Lower Extremity Reconstruction
University of Tennessee Memphis, Department of Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds May 1999