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- 03/01/2009
- Editor's Message
- PSN Editor Anne Taylor, MD, notes that despite a culture of “spin” in Washington, D.C., plastic surgeons must shine a light on physician-industry relationships.
- 03/01/2009
- Legislative Update
- The economic stimulus package signed into law by President Obama carries $19 billion for health information technology targeting EHRs.
- 03/01/2009
- CPT Corner
- Raymond Janevicius, MD, addresses global surgery packages and the correct usage of related modifiers.
- 03/01/2009
- Online@ASPS
- Society's Online Education Center’s expansion means that plastic surgeons now can access 31 online courses – many with CME and patient safety credits.
- 03/01/2009
- MOC Fact File
- Plastic surgeons can now upload their CME files directly to ABPS to satisfy MOC-PS Application or Professional Standing Update requirements.
- 03/01/2009
- ASPS issues Guiding Principles, scientific review on fat grafting
- As interest in fat grafting continues to grow, the ASPS Health Policy Committee and Fat Graft Task Force have issued papers to help guide plastic surgeons.
- 03/01/2009
- On Legal Grounds
- Phil Haeck, MD, discusses how an iron-clad system for tracking lab results and reports will go far in keeping plastic surgeons out of the courtroom.
- 03/01/2009
- Plastic surgeons, hospitals search for new paradigms to sustain E.R. call
- Hospitals and medical centers throughout the nation are experiencing E.R. trauma call shortages in most surgical specialties. But specialties that don't boast considerable real numbers - including craniofacial, hand and reconstructive microsurgery - are in much greater demand for trauma call because the supply of physicians capable of doing such work is small.
- 03/01/2009
- ASPS viral media effort links value of cosmetic procedures to women's career planning
- The Society's first multimedia news release focuses on the attitudes of working women and cosmetic surgery – with the potential to reach 30 million consumers.
- 03/01/2009
- Plastic surgeon saves teen's arm after auto crash
- This installation of "Reconstructing Lives" tells the story of Amber Shaffer, whose serious arm injuries were successfully treated by James Higgins, MD.
- 03/01/2009
- Member Notices
- 1968 ASPRS President Francis "Sammy" Paletta Sr., dies at 93; David Song, MD, honored by breast cancer group; Peter Fodor, MD, receives "Ellis Island" award.
- 03/01/2009
- Media Update
- More magazine takes readers step-by-step through one woman's blepharoplasty; The New York Times looks at teenage grooming; PRS study gets print, web time.
- 03/01/2009
- The Last Stitch
- The Surgeon Spotlight highlights John Kitzmiller, MD, Cincinnati; ASPS Life Member William Carter, MD, finds joy in "geocaching," which uses GPS technology to find objects hidden the world over.
- 03/01/2009
- Women Plastic Surgeons to lead abdominal seroma initiative
- Women Plastic Surgeons Steering Committee is behind important effort to decrease – or eliminate – abdominal seroma, through TOPS data analysis.
- 03/01/2009
- Free practice marketing tools available to members on ASPS website
- ASPS Member Surgeons now have access to a variety of free video, print and online materials to educate patients and highlight their training.
- 03/01/2009
- Exploring the promise of stem cells for reconstruction
- National Endowment Grant Award winner Howard Wang, MD, San Antonio, Texas, is researching how tissue engineering can aid repair of large bony defects.
- 03/01/2009
- President's Message
- PSEF President Peter Neligan, MD, says plastic surgery research can help guide ASPS members out of the barren desert that represents today’s economy.
- 02/01/2009
- Legislative Update
- ASPS is working with 14 other surgical societies on the United Surgical Agenda, an effort aimed at providing long-term solutions to payment system flaws that have dogged physicians for years.
- 02/01/2009
- How an Arizona plastic surgeon helped change the law - and improve patient safety as a result
- After treating several patients with injuries from laser treatments, Steven Gitt, MD, and his wife, Stacey, worked with Arizona legislators to pass a law that places limits on the use of aesthetic lasers.
- 02/01/2009
- ASPS component relations efforts aim to build stronger state societies
- The ASPS Component Relations Task Force is bringing together plastic surgery's state societies to provide a strong, unified advocacy front and devising templates for continued growth.
- 02/01/2009
- CPT Corner
- Raymond Janevicius, MD, explains the complex and numerous reasons why DIEP flap procedures seem to have gotten the short shrift, including CPT budget neutrality that binds the hands of coding experts.
- 02/01/2009
- CME Station
- The National Faculty Educational Initiative, designed to provide information on important differences between certified CME and commercial programs, is encouraged for any ASPS faculty member.
- 02/01/2009
- The oldest educational course for plastic surgeons offered to residents, fellows
- The Basic Course of the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons (ASMS), with its focus on the dental aspects of maxillofacial reconstruction and trauma, will be held March 5-7 in Los Angeles.
- 02/01/2009
- On Legal Grounds
- Phil Haeck, MD, makes it clear that the defense of an injury related to carpal tunnel surgery must begin well before the procedure – during the informed consent stage, which needs solid documentation.
- 02/01/2009
- President's Message
- ASPS President John Canady, MD, says the considerable time spent in training clearly makes plastic surgeons the best at performing related procedures – and the true “outliers” of the specialty.
- 02/01/2009
- Editor's Message
- PSN Associate Editor Michele Shermak, MD, says the current decline in cosmetic plastic surgery patients should be considered an opportunity for physicians to spend time healing themselves.
- 02/01/2009
- The Last Stitch
- The Surgeon Spotlight this month highlights Philip Wey, MD, Princeton, N.J.; Scot Glasberg MD, New York, considers an offer from actor Robert DeNiro.
- 02/01/2009
- PSN Newsfront
- The law seems to be catching up with unskilled professionals who perform plastic surgery procedures that leave patients injured or disfigured, based on news reports of legal action taken in recent weeks.
- 02/01/2009
- Media Update
- The national news media scrambles to report on the first U.S. face transplant; U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal are among the outlets treating the economy's effect on procedures.
- 02/01/2009
- Letters to the Editor
- Readers respond to the January 2009 cover story on the Obama administration.
