UPMC Craniofacial Fellowship Grant

The UPMC Craniofacial Fellowship is a one-year clinical program designed to train future leaders in craniofacial and pediatric plastic surgery. It offers extensive hands-on experience in diagnosing and managing craniofacial disorders, working with a multidisciplinary team, and conducting clinical research. Fellows will gain proficiency in preoperative evaluations, surgical treatments, and postoperative care, preparing them for a successful academic surgical career. Admission is open to board-eligible or certified surgeons who have completed an accredited plastic surgery residency.

Craniofacial Surgery
At UPMC, we seek to attract and train the future leaders in craniofacial and pediatric plastic surgery, as well as craniofacial biology research. Our fellowship includes the in-depth study of disorders of the soft and hard tissues of the face and cranium, such as congenital anomalies, post-traumatic, and other acquired deformities.
Duration and Scope
Length of educational program is a 1 year clinical fellowship with a required clinical research project and highly encouraged opportunities in the department’s clinical or basic science laboratories.
Description of Fellowship
Comprehensive experience with the preoperative evaluation, treatment planning, operative treatment, and postoperative management of patients with congenital and acquired craniofacial and pediatric plastic surgery diagnoses.Comprehensive weekly involvement with a large interdisciplinary cleft-craniofacial team, with formal exposure to team members and their respective roles.Weekly outpatient clinic experience in the preoperative evaluation and postoperative management of craniofacial patients.Comprehensive experience with pediatric otolaryngology, focusing on the difficult airway clinic.Comprehensive experience with maxillofacial surgery requiring fellow performed cephalometric analysis, fabrication of dental models and orthognathic splints, surgical treatment planning, virtual surgery and orthognathic surgery.Comprehensive experience with the reconstructive management of post-ablative defects from malignancy about the craniomaxillofacial region with free flap surgery and bone grafting techniques.Comprehensive experience with craniomaxillofacial trauma, both acute and post-traumatic deformity reconstruction.Comprehensive experience in the broad scope of pediatric plastic surgery including vascular anomalies, congenital nevi, cleft lip and palate, brachial plexus, congenital hand (if interested), etc.Formal weekly conference with the fellowship director and pediatric faculty to review assigned readings in core curriculum topics relating to craniofacial and pediatric plastic surgery topics.

Eligibility

Admission is open to surgeons who have satisfactorily completing an accredited plastic surgery residency program and who are board eligible or certified.Participation in the San Francisco Match program is required.