Clinical and Translational Prevention of Lymphedema

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About the speaker: Al Hassanein, MD, MMSc, FACS is an Associate Professor and Director of Research in the Division of Plastic Surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, Indiana. He trained in general surgery at the University of California San Diego, completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Harvard/Boston Children’s Hospital, and obtained a Master’s in Clinical and Translational Research at Harvard Medical School. He trained at the Harvard Plastic Surgery Residency Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Beth Israel. He completed a Reconstructive Microsurgery fellowship at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. His clinical expertise includes breast reconstruction and lymphedema. He has published over 100 articles and has given national and international invited talks on breast reconstruction outcomes and lymphedema. His NIH-funded translational laboratory focuses on novel therapeutics in lymphedema.