Email: Jeffrey_Weinzweig

  Research Area:

Craniofacial surgery; microsurgery; fetal surgery; fetal wound healing; anatomic/cadaver investigations; growth factor studies; midface distraction osteogenesis

  Research Summary:

The Dept. of Plastic Surgery welcomes the participation of interested students with significant research experience or none at all. Our facilities include a fully-equipped cell culture laboratory as well as a microsurgery laboratory. Operating room facilities for large animal surgery are available within our research building at Rhode Island Hospital as well as within the Biomedical Science Building on the Brown campus where we perform fetal surgery. Our research program has resulted in national and international presentations at the Plastic Surgery Research Council, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Society, the International Society of Craniofacial Surgeons, and the International Wrist Society in the last two years; in additions, we received the First Prize for the best paper at the Senior Residents' Conference 3 times in the last 4 years. Students involved in projects within our research program are introduced to, and encouraged to participate in, every aspect of research project design, data analysis, surgery, writing of scientific abstracts and papers, and presentation at conferences.