Trip to Armenia

In September my scrub nurse, Charlotte, and I went to Armenia to operate. Gagik Stamboltsyan, one of the surgeons that Yale plastic surgeon Dr. Stephen Ariyan had trained after the 1998 Spitak, Armenia earthquake had come with his son to the American Association of Plastic Surgeons meeting in 2015 to honor Dr. Ariyan in his […]

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The Face of Trauma

My third book, The Face of Trauma, is nearly complete, with 9 of the 10 chapters written, illustrations being produced by Dr. Ruston Sanchez, and our childhood trauma research about to be processed with the physicians and biostatisticians at the University of Wisconsin. Like last year, I took two weeks in February to hide out […]

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