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2 July

Dr. Steven Fishman

Dr. Fishman is Board-certified in Surgery and Pediatric Surgery. He is the Stuart and Jane Weitzman Family Chair in Surgery, Vice-Chair of Surgery for Clinical Operations, Co-Director of the Vascular Anomalies Center, President of the Physicians’ O...

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2 July

Milton Waner

Dr. Milton Waner is an authority in the surgical management of hemangiomas and vascular malformations of the head and neck. He has over 100 peer reviewed publications, 30 textbook chapters, and countless presentations at national and international me...

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2 July

J. Stuart Nelson

Dr. J. Stuart Nelson, is Medical Director of the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, and Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of California Irvine Medical Center. He is also the Director of the Vascular Birthmarks...

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2 July

Labib R. Zakka

My first area of research was autoimmune mucocutaneous blistering diseases, specifically pemphigus vulgaris. I worked on the role of epitope spreading in multiple simultaneous autoimmune conditions, as well as the therapeutic efficacy of Rituximab (a...

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2 July

Martin C. Mihm Jr

The last 43 years of my life have been spent in five areas of endeavor. First, I have studied the evolution of malignant melanoma and was involved in the first classification of the tumor into subtypes in 1969 with Dr. Wallace Clark. This work then l...

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2 July

Alejandro Berenstein

Alejandro Berenstein, MD (Dr B.) was born in Mexico City in 1948, graduated from the UNAM, at present is Professor of Neurosurgery, Radiology and Pediatrics, Director of the Hyman-Newman Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery at the Ichan School of...

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2 July

Patricia Burrows

Dr. Patricia Burrows has been involved in the diagnosis and treatment of vascular anomalies since her Pediatric Special Procedures fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital in 1981. In 1985, she obtained additional training in neurovascular inte...

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2 July

Robert J. Rosen

Interventional Radiology & Endovascular Surgery Dr. Rosen is internationally recognized as a leader in the field of interventional radiology and endovascular surgery, having pioneered several techniques and medical devices now in common use. He a...

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2 July

Terry Amaral

Dr. Amaral received his medical degree from the Albert Eistein College Medicine of Yeshiva University, and trained in Orthopaedic Surgery at Montefiore Medical Center. After completing a fellowship in Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery at the Hospital for...

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2 July

Andrei Rebarber

Dr. Rebarber is a board certified Obstetrician / Gynecologist with subspecialty certification in Maternal-Fetal Medicine. He completed his MFM fellowship training at Yale University and was a member of the New York University School of Medicine facul...

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