University of Washington Integrated Plastic Surgery Residency

It’s not summertime without our annual “Bash on Vashon” program-wide outing! Every year, Dr. Friedrich invites us to spend the day in his beautiful home on Vashon Island, where we bask in the sun and enjoy some backyard games all together. This year, the event was particularly unique - featuring a birthday celebration for Dr. Friedrich and chief resident Dr. Beck, megaphone announcements by Dr. Vedder, and the babies of UW PRS! If you look carefully, you can even spot a gifted shirt with Dr. Friedrich’s favorite radiographic finding, the “pooping duck sign” 🤭

Happy belated birthdays to our doctors and thank you to all for making our program as special as it is 🫶🏼

The very first intern bootcamp was a success! 🥾⛺️

Our incredibly enthusiastic, talented, and hardworking .and.perfused squad is now even MORE prepared to splint, suture, and doctor any patient that comes their way! 💪💫

Special thanks to program director Dr. Russell Ettinger, Dr. Jeffrey Friedrich, and upper level residents for lending their knowledge and skills to this fantastic series of lectures and hands-on workshops! 🧠📚💉

Oh, and we can’t forget to thank the gal who always keeps us fed, caffeinated, and on task, . 🥰

Shout out to PGY5 Dr. Shanique Martin and faculty Dr. Duane Wang for hosting an exceptional summer journal club for our faculty, residents, and visiting students!☀️

We had so much fun reviewing recent publications in breast, hand, and peripheral nerve, and discussing how these data can translate into our own clinical practice. 📚🔬✋

…the complimentary Thai food was just a bonus. 😋

Congratulations are in order for Drs. Benjamin Massenburg, Ezgi Mercan, Russell Ettinger, and Raymond Tse, whose publication “The Yin and Yang of Primary Unilateral Cleft Lip and Nose Repair: Balance through Opposing Cleft and Noncleft Side Changes” has been named the 2024 PRS Best Paper for Pediatric/Craniofacial.🥇

This award is given annually by the journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the most important and widely read journal in Plastic Surgery. This is the team’s third(!) “Best Paper” award in four years and reaffirms that the Craniofacial Center at Seattle Children’s Hospital is a leader worldwide. The Craniofacial Team cares for children with cleft and craniofacial conditions and is one of the largest and most comprehensive multidisciplinary teams. While the award is an honor, the greatest honor for the team is in serving children and families with cleft and craniofacial conditions.

Sundays are for 🍻 with friends (and our unofficial mascot, Monty 🐾).

Congratulations to our 2024 UW Plastic Surgery residency graduates: Drs. Rebecca DeSanti, Vanessa Leonhard, John Shih, and Phil Tolley (fondly know as the )!

The UW PRS Family gathered at the Seattle Yacht Club last weekend to celebrate our Chief Residents’ accomplishments as clinicians, researchers, and just as really awesome people. We are certain they will continue to go above and beyond for their patients and colleagues, as they have done during their 6 years in Seattle.

It is with immense pride, much laughter, and many tears that we send them off to their respective fellowships and jobs! ✈️

🌟Dr. Rebecca DeSanti ➡️ Microsurgery Fellowship (Memorial Sloan Kettering | New York, NY) 🔬

🌟Dr. Vanessa Leonhard ➡️ Private Practice (Physicians Clinic of Iowa | Cedar Rapids, IA)

🌟Dr. John Shih ➡️ Private Practice (Kaiser Permanente | Oakland, CA)

🌟Dr. Phil Tolley ➡️ Craniofacial Fellowship (University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA)

We also celebrated our wonderful graduating fellows, Drs. Erin Anstadt, Andrew Linkugel, and Mustafa Chopan. We wish you each the best as you embark into practice!✨

As our graduating Chiefs wrap up their last few days of residency, we can’t help but get a little teary-eyed thinking about the last five years our classes have spent together.

John, Phil, Rebecca, and Vanessa welcomed each of us to UW with open arms. They taught us how to reduce and splint fractures, checked in on us during challenging rotations, walked us through chest tubes and complex flap dissections, hosted us on holidays when our families were far away, and always told us it was going to be okay. They have made an indelible impact on who we each are as clinicians, and as people. And we couldn’t be more grateful to know each of them, their partners, and their children.

We’ll miss you four more than you could know. But it’s not goodbye, it’s just see ya later 🥹

❤️

The Breast Friends

Boston with THE Boss!

✅ Lobstah rolls 🦞
✅ MGH Ether Dome 💉
✅ Boston Common/Public Garden 💐
✅ AAPS/PSRC 📚
✅ Clinician of the Year!🥇

Jumping for joy because our newly minted PGY-1 class started orientation today! 💫

IT’S A MATCH!🔥

Please join us in celebrating PGY5 Dr. Nikki Thrikutam’s phenomenal match to her top choice Microsurgery Fellowship at John’s Hopkins Medicine!🥂

We couldn’t be more proud of all that Nikki has accomplished, and know she is destined for even more greatness in the years to come. Hopkins, you got a good one!☝️

Our residents had a blast learning about craniomaxillofacial fixation and practicing their plating technique during our weekly didactics! Thank you to for sponsoring our skills lab, and to all our attendings for showing us the ropes and making sure our practice skulls received the care they needed 💀 As they say, practice makes perfect!

🎊We are absolutely thrilled to announce that our very own Dr. Danielle Eble has matched to OHSU for Gender-Affirming Fellowship!! 🎊

We could not be prouder of our rising chief for a fantastic match! Major perk that she is just a quick drive away 💜💛

This weekend, UW PRS faculty and residents and represented our program at the Latino Surgical Society national symposium, hosted right here in Seattle by ! We had an amazing time teaching suturing to students from the .amistad.school, meeting Latino surgeons and trainees from across the country, and collaborating on how to improve care for under resourced populations! Big thanks to for bringing us together, and to current and emeritus UW Surgery chairs Dr. Wood and Dr. Pellegrini for your support.

Serving up journal club articles at the Seattle Tennis Club! 🎾👟📓

Special thanks to our adjunct faculty, Drs. John Hutter, Chad Bailey, and Trenton Morton of , for hosting an exceptional discussion of the current plastic surgery literature. We had the best time! 🏆

Please join us in welcoming a VERY adorable addition to our UW Plastic Surgery family, Baby Ashton Rhodes Fisher! 🍼👣

We could not be more thrilled for Chief Resident Sean Fisher and just wife, Hayley, as they embark on their next great adventure: parenthood! Congratulations, you two! 💫

🌟We are over the moon to introduce Matthew Ying ! 🌙

🌟This new year Dr. Abra Shen and husband Robert Ying welcomed their baby boy and first-born! Not only is he as cute as can be but he’s already starting his modeling career 📸

🌟As the newest obsession, baby Matty is stealing hearts left and right 😍

🌟We can’t wait to watch him grow throughout residency 💜💛

This weekend we celebrated Dr. Phil Tolley and his amazing wife, Elisse, who are welcoming their third child - a baby girl - in March! 🎀🐣

Big brothers Braxton and Jordan are just as excited we are! 🤗 And our special guest, Baby Kai Shih, also showed his enthusiasm with a long nap. 😴

As if this day wasn’t special enough, it was also Phil’s birthday, so you know made a 🔥 birthday cake in his honor.

Achieving a work-life balance can be a slippery slope, but I think we’ve got it figured out. ⛷️🤙

📍Northwest Society of Plastic Surgeons Annual Meeting, Whistler, British Columbia 🇨🇦

Congratulations to our very own Dr. Alice Liu, PGY-2, for receiving the Resident Award for Medical Student Teaching!! 🏆 👩🏻‍🏫 Alice was selected for this biannual award this past month by UW medical students for having a positive impact on their education through teaching and mentoring! 📝 We are very proud of you, 👏🏻‼️

We are so pleased to share our annual UW Plastic Surgery Division Newsletter for 2022, hot off the virtual press! 💌

[Part 3 of 3]

Swipe ➡️ to learn more about what our residents, fellows, faculty, and alumni have been up to!

We are so pleased to share our annual UW Plastic Surgery Division Newsletter for 2022, hot off the virtual press! 💌

[Part 2 of 3]

Swipe ➡️ to learn more about what our residents, fellows, faculty, and alumni have been up to!

We are so pleased to share our annual UW Plastic Surgery Division Newsletter for 2022, hot off the virtual press! 💌

[Part 2 of 3]

Swipe ➡️ to learn more about what our residents, fellows, faculty, and alumni have been up to!

We are so pleased to share our annual UW Plastic Surgery Division Newsletter for 2022, hot off the virtual press! 💌

[Part 1 of 3]

Swipe ➡️ to learn more about what our residents, fellows, faculty, and alumni have been up to!

Happy National Black Women Physicians Day!

✨We are proud to celebrate our very own Drs. Shanique Martin (PGY-3) and Olivia Bennett (PGY-1) ✨

Our family and program are better and stronger for having both these incredible women in it. We celebrate you today and everyday 💜💛

The University of Washington is pleased to share a medical student ✨research opportunity✨ with faculty Drs. Shane Morrison and Russell Ettinger for the upcoming academic year. 📚🔍

Drs. Morrison and Ettinger are seeking a highly motivated medical student to complete a 1-year research fellowship focusing on surgical and patient-reported outcomes in plastic surgery and gender-affirming surgery, as well as medical ethics and advocacy. During their time, the research fellow will gain clinical and research experience in a fulfilling and exciting field. Fellows will be expected to conduct and oversee research projects, prepare manuscripts, obtain IRB approvals, and write grant applications.

Medical students pursuing Plastic Surgery with an interest in gender-affirming surgery are highly encouraged to apply. Funding may be available for part of the year, but currently is not guaranteed. The position will require relocation to Seattle and begins in Summer 2023.

Interested applicants should submit a cover letter and CV to [email protected] no later than March 1, 2023.

Happy National Women Physicians Day!!! We couldn’t be more proud of our amazingly bright and talented female surgeons here at UW!!! 💪🏻👩🏻‍⚕️👩🏼‍⚕️👩🏾‍⚕️👩🏽‍⚕️🎀
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Learning from the very best at this weekend’s Craniofacial cadaver dissection course! ✨

Special thanks to Drs. Hopper, Susarla, and Ettinger for spending their Saturday helping our fellows and residents get in those extra reps! 💀💪

🚨Cutie alert🚨

Happy to announce that our PRS family continues to grow! This past Christmas we got our own little christmas miracle in Baby Kai Shih.

Weighing in at 6lb 9oz and 19.5in Baby Kai is already taking names and steal hearts with those grey eyes 😍

Both Corey and Kai are doing great! Papa John Shih hasn’t been this sleep deprived since fourth year senior call but he’s also thriving!

The Gold Team is all the way ⬆️!