Premedical Education

Medical Education

Internship: Surgery

Residency: Surgery

Residency: Plastic Surgery


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Awards

Boston University, A.B. cum laude with distinction in the field of Biology.

New York University.

Bellevue Hospital, New York City.

Bellevue Hospital, New York City.

Tufts New England Medical Center.University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.Chief Resident.

American Board of Plastic Surgery, #1762.

State of Connecticut, #016054.

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Senior Attending Plastic Surgeon, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, Chief of Plastic Surgery; Senior Attending Plastic Surgeon, New Britain General Hospital, Chief of Plastic Surgery; Courtesy Staff, Department of Plastic Surgery, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, CT; Courtesy Staff, Department of Surgery, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT; Consultant in Plastic Surgery, The Rehabilitation Hospital of Connecticut, Hartford, CT; Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, John Dempsey Hospital, Farmington CT; Initiated and active in the teaching Program of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Chairman of the Board - One Lap for Kids, a non- profit children's cancer charity; Board Member - EVE, a non-profit charity against domestic violence; Board Member - NYDI, a non-profit charity to promote dance in the inner city; Medical/Legal Consultant for Defense, Specializing in Wound Evaluations and Cosmetic, Surgical Issues. Fellow, American College of Surgeons. Major in US ARMY Medical Corps; Served one year in Republic of Vietnam as a general/plastic surgeon; Served one year at Fort Devens, MA as Chief of general/plastic surgery; Awarded Bronze Star for gallantry; Awarded Vietnamese Service Medal; Awarded Vietnamese Civil Action Medal; Awarded Vietnamese Campaign Medal; Awarded National Defense Medal; Member - Connecticut War Veterans Memorial Register of Remembrance Commission; Donor of Connecticut's Vietnam Veterans Memorial. American Society of Plastic Surgery (ASPS), Past Chairman, National Council of Regional Societies, also Past Chairman of Committees for Public Safety, Art Exhibition, and Practice Enhancement; American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), Member of Marketing, By-laws and Public Education Committees; International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery; Connecticut Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (CSPRS), Founder and Charter President; New England Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (NESPRS), Member with service as Secretary-Treasurer, Vice President and President; Northeast Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (NSPR); Hartford County Medical Association; Connecticut State Medical Society; American Medical Association; American Cleft Palate Society, American Society of Breast Surgeons, American Society of Wound Healing; Association for the Advancement of Wound Care; Lipoplasty Society. Pathologenesis of Candida Albicans, active research as a National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellow; A Mesenteric Cyst in the Acute Abdomen, Lower Extremity, Brown, SA Athans, J Newton Wellesley Hospital; Clinical Application of Flaps of the Lower Extremity, Brown, SA Athans, J Presented to Chief Resident's meeting Surgery; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Vietnam, Brown, SA, Presented to NESPRS; Total Reconstruction of the Lower Lip, Brown, SA, Presented to Ohio Valley Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Chief Residents Meeting and to NESPRS; The Simple Way - A Better Way Sometimes, Brown, SA, An essay presented to NESPRS; Factitious Ulcerations, Sudarshan, S Brown, SA, Presented to NESPRS; An Unusual Cleft, Frescette, C Brown, SA, Presented to NESPRS; Customized Total Breast Reconstruction, Brown, SA, Presented to NESPRS; Suction Assisted Lipectomy Video, Co-Editor, for ASPRS; Breast Reconstruction Without Extensive Surgical Commitment, Brown, SA Dick, GO, Presented to ASAPS, Published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; The Electric Injury: Origins and Treatment, Felice, PR, Belinkie, SA, Becker, DR, Brown, SA, Journal of Conn. State Medical Society; Salivary Gland Fistula Following Rhytidectomy, Kelly, C, Brown, SA, Belinkie, SA, Presented to NESPRS; Multiple Agminate Spitz Nevus, Renfro, L, Grant-Kels, J, Brown, SA; Pro Choice and Post Mastectomy Breast Reconstruction: A Review of 100 Consecutive Cases, Brown, SA, Brzezienski, MA, Belinkie, SA, Presented to NESPRS; Risk Management and Quality Health Care, Brown, SA, Presented to NESPRS; Malpractice Insurance Crisis-Fact vs Fiction, Brown, SA, Presented to NSPS. AMA National Physicians' Recognition Award, bestowed every 3 years to present; Certificate of Advanced Education in Cosmetic Surgery; Special AMA Award of Service (1 of 16 recipients) for development of "One Hope for Kids", a non-profit children's cancer charity.