The types of cases in which the Microsurgery fellow is involved include breast reconstruction, head and neck reconstruction for tumors, and extremity reconstruction with free flaps. The fellow is also involved with acute major extremity trauma and peripheral nerve surgery. In addition, the fellow supervises the microsurgery cases performed at the four affiliated hospitals. There is also ample opportunity for anatomic, laboratory and clinical research projects. An academically-oriented aesthetic surgery fellowship headed by Timothy Miller, M.D. was established in 1992, in collaboration with the clinical faculty.
Aesthetic surgery is an integral part of a university plastic surgery program.
The one year fellowship includes clinical exposure, fundamental anatomic research and teaching obligations. The Aesthetic fellow is also responsible, in conjunction with the attending faculty, for organizing the aesthetic teaching program within the residency. The Reconstructive Hand Surgery Program directed by Neil Ford Jones, M.D., in cooperation with Roy Meals, M.D. of Orthopaedics, is an integral part of the UCLA Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residency Training Program. Residents participate in the work-up and treatment of a broad spectrum of hand pathologies ranging from simple, acute injuries to sophisticated microsurgical and reconstructive challenges. In addition to the residents assigned to this service, a Hand fellow assists in the teaching program.