Maria Siemionow is known for leading a team of eight surgeons through the first near-total face transplant performed in the United States at the Cleveland Clinic in 2008.
17 Facts About Maria Siemionow
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Maria Siemionow is regarded as a world leader in nerve regeneration enhancement and in developing minimal immunosuppression regimens following transplantation.
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Maria Siemionow specializes in microsurgery, hand surgery, peripheral nerve surgery, transplantation and microsurgery research.
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Dr Maria Siemionow worked as an Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Utah in 1990.
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Maria Siemionow was named Director of Plastic Surgery Research and Head of Microsurgical Training in the Cleveland Clinic's Department of Plastic Surgery in 1995 and served in that capacity until 2013.
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Maria Siemionow was appointed Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University in 2005.
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In 2003 Maria Siemionow completed the first facial transplant on rats paving the way for the first US human face transplant which she undertook in 2008.
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Maria Siemionow is President of the American Society for Reconstructive Transplantation and is past president of the International Hand and Composite Tissue Allotransplantation Society and the American Society for Peripheral Nerve.
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Maria Siemionow is a member of the Warrior Restoration Consortium, an academic-industry team focused on developing new treatments for wounded soldiers.
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Maria Siemionow has received the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for her contribution to the development of microsurgery and transplantation medicine.
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Maria Siemionow was twice honored with the James Barrett Brown Award for best publication in a plastic surgery journal in 2004 and 2007.
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Maria Siemionow received the Folkert Belzeer Award in Transplantation for her work on transplantation and tolerance at the 6th Congress of the International Society for Organ Sharing in 2001.
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Maria Siemionow is a recipient of the 2009 Cleveland Clinic Learner Research Award for Excellence for her transplantation research.
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Maria Siemionow is a member of the Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists of Polish Origin and Ancestry.
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In May 2020, Maria Siemionow was featured on The Times 'Science Power List'.
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Maria Siemionow has edited multiple plastic surgery textbooks, one popular science book, and has contributed to 90 published book chapters.
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Maria Siemionow is on the editorial board of nine professional society journals and is an ad hoc reviewer for six professional society journals.