Hand / Upper Extremity / Microsurgery
Clinical Faculty: Koman, Li, Tuohy, Wiesler, Poehling
Basic Science Faculty: TL Smith, BP Smith
Residents: Apel, Barnwell, Mannava, Plate, Stone
Outside Collaborators: KR Saul, R Oppenheim, C Milligan, J Saul, M Van Dyke
- Peripheral nerve
- Repair
- Peripheral Nervous System Response to Injury
- Schwann Cell Activation
- Macrophage Recruitment
- Biological Augmentation with Growth Factor Supplementation
- Physiology and Aging
- Nerve Regeneration: Keratin Biomaterials
- Nerve-Muscle Interactions and The Neuromuscular Junction
- Rotator cuff
- Rodent Model
- Mathematical modeling
- Biology of Aging
- Human Upper-Extremity Movement Biomechanics
- Botulinum Neurotoxin Biology, Spasticity, and Myoneural Physiology
- Therapeutic applications of botulinum neurotoxin in Orthopaedic Surgery
- Biological depot for treating dystonia
- Mathematical modeling of muscle function
- Microangiology
- Thermoregulatory mechanisms
- Novel therapies for Raynaud's Phenomena, Lupus, and vascular insufficiency of the upper extremity
- Multicenter Trial of Keratin Biomaterials for Peripheral Nerve Regeneration (DOD funded)
- Rat Model for Studying Brachial Plexus Birth Palsy
- Clinical Trial for the Surgical Treatment of Distal Radius Fractures in the Elderly (NIH multicenter trial - Coordinating Center: University of Michigan Medical School)