May 2025 Journal Club: Financial Impact of a Cosurgeon; Legislative Impact on Reconstruction Rates; CAD/CAM in Mandibular Reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - PRS Journal Club

In this episode of the Award-winning PRS Journal Club Podcast, 2025 Resident Ambassadors to the PRS Editorial Board – Christopher Kalmar, Ilana Margulies, and Amanda Sergesketter- and special guest, Evan Matros, MD, discuss the following articles from the May 2025 issue:

“The Financial Impact of a Cosurgeon in Breast

Microsurgery” by DeVito, Ke, Park, et al.

“Legislative Impact and Persistent Disparities:

Postmastectomy Breast Reconstruction Rates in

the United States among 224,506 Patients” by Schafer, Ho, Potoczak, et al.

“Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing in

Free Fibula Reconstruction of the Mandible:

Comparison of Long-Term Outcomes with the

Conventional Technique” by Bengur, Humar, Saadoun, et al.

Special guest, Evan Matros, MD is an attending surgeon, Vice Chair of Health Information Technology in the Department of Surgery, and the program director of the microsurgery fellowship at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He completed his General Surgery and Plastic Surgery Residencies at Harvard Medical School followed by a microsurgery fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He also has received his MPH at Columbia University and Master of Medical Science degree from Harvard Medical School. Among his many accomplishments, Dr. Matros is the current vice president of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery Council, he currently serves on the editorial board of the PRS Journal, and he is widely published in reconstructive microsurgery.

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