Andrea Pusic, MD
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (PRWEB) October 02, 2018
The Plastic Surgery Foundation (The PSF), which supports the research and international activities of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), named Andrea Pusic, MD, MHS, president of The Plastic Surgery Foundation. Dr. Pusic took office at Plastic Surgery The Meeting, the Society's annual scientific meeting, in Chicago and will serve for one year.
“I am thrilled and honored to serve as the president of the Plastic Surgery Foundation,” noted Dr. Pusic. “I look forward to leading The PSF over the coming year to advance research, innovation and patient safety in plastic surgery.”
Dr. Pusic is Chief of Plastic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Joseph E. Murray Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. She also leads the newly formed Patient-Reported Outcomes, Value & Experience (PROVE) Center at Brigham Health in Boston. Previously, she was an attending plastic surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a professor of surgery at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York.
Dr. Pusic completed her medical degree at the University of Calgary in Canada and earned her Master of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. She completed her general surgery residency at Dalhousie University as well as her plastic surgery residency at McGill University, followed by a plastic and reconstructive surgery fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Dr. Pusic is a well-recognized expert in reconstructive surgery and an internationally-renowned innovator and leader in patient-reported outcomes and surgical experience. Throughout her career, Dr. Pusic has been involved in research studies that seek to better understand the patient perspective on surgical outcomes and experiences. Her research focuses on the measurement of quality of life and patient satisfaction in surgery. She is principal investigator of a study funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) that examines how electronic patient-reporting of symptoms may improve surgical care.
Dr. Pusic’s dual training in epidemiology and surgery has positioned her to lead a team of experts in psychometrics, quality of life and social science methods to develop, validate and use new quantitative measures to assess patient outcomes. The patient-reported outcomes instrument she developed for breast surgery (the BREAST-Q) has been widely adopted for research and clinical care and serves as the basis for development of other outcome measures in surgery.
Dr. Pusic has authored more than 200 scientific articles and book chapters and has mentored more than 24 surgeons during various stages of their academic careers. In 2017, she was awarded the Research Achievement Award from ASPS and The PSF. Dr. Pusic is the U.S. Director of Reconstructing Women International and frequently leads surgical mission trips to provide reconstructive surgery for injured women and girls in developing countries. She is a past board member of the International Society of Quality of Life.
About The PSF
The Plastic Surgery Foundation (The PSF) supports the research and international activities of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) members. The PSF works alongside ASPS to support the innovators' idea, teaches researchers how to articulate the relevancy, the impact and the possibilities that their ideas hold, works to bring the right people together so that the tested and meaningful idea can reach the marketplace and helps a cadre of volunteers take those new ideas and tried and true procedures to all corners of the world to help people.
About ASPS
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) is the world's largest organization of board-certified plastic surgeons. Representing more than 7,000 surgeons, the Society is recognized as a leading authority and information source on aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgery. ASPS comprises more than 94 percent of all board-certified plastic surgeons in the United States. Founded in 1931, the Society represents physicians certified by The American Board of Plastic Surgery or The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. ASPS advances quality care to plastic surgery patients by encouraging high standards of training, ethics, physician practice and research in plastic surgery.
