Microsurgery Courses Cleveland Clinic

2026 started at full speed 🔬
January was packed with microsurgery training and incredible progress from our trainees!

Featuring our own PGY-3 Ryan Lin MD, Taylor Shackleford, MD (Hand Surgery Fellow, University of Cincinnati), Kyle Bartelt, MD (Plastic Surgery Fellow, Summa Health), and Mohammad Poursalehian, MD (Orthopedic Surgery Research Fellow, Cleveland Clinic).

✨Trainee Spotlight✨

Shoutout to our amazing trainees from Ireland🇮🇪🍀

Congratulations to Dr Róisín Baker MD, Dr Ellen Geary MD, and Dr Patrick O’donogue MD on getting their basic and advanced microsurgery certificates! We loved having you here!

Great weekend last weekend at !⚜️✨

Congrats to all the presenters from the Microsurgery Lab, we are already looking forward to next year in Houston!

August Recap of our Microsurgery Course 🔬

We were thrilled to welcome incredible trainees from around the world including Australia, Switzerland, Mexico, Poland, and even from our own Cleveland Clinic! 🌍

It was an inspiring month of learning, collaboration, and advancing microsurgical skills. Looking forward to continuing the momentum with more training this September! 💪✨

Great lineup of presentations at Cleveland Clinic Plastic Surgery Research Day. Truly inspired by the high quality work shared by everyone.

Some glimpses from the 68th OVSPS Meeting last weekend at The Greenbrier Resort — a fantastic opportunity to connect with friends, peers, mentors, and esteemed plastic surgeons. We were proud to present 15 contributions from CCF. An inspiring, fun, and truly memorable event all around!

We had an exciting time presenting our work, ‘Recipient Vessels in Phalloplasty: A Systematic Review’ and ‘The Impact of Testosterone Supplementation on Surgical Complications in Gender-Affirming Mastectomy: A Meta-Analysis,’ at the Plastic Surgery Research Council meeting 2025 . Grateful for the opportunity to share our findings and connect with leaders in the field.

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Benyo, ENT PGY-3 resident, and Marcus Dantas, PA-C, ENT physician assistant at CCF Weston, on successfully completing the basic microsurgery course! It was truly a pleasure spending time with you both. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors! 🌻

We are pleased to recognize Nathan Hebel, MD, a PGY-1 Plastic Surgery resident at Cleveland Clinic, and William Del Fresno, PA-C, an ENT Physician Assistant at Cleveland Clinic Weston, Florida. Nathan has successfully completed both the Basic and Advanced Microsurgery Courses, while William has completed the Basic Microsurgery Course. We congratulate you both and wish you continued success in your careers. 🍀

This week, we congratulate Dr. Fatma Selin Yildirim and Dr. Geofia Shaina Crasta on successfully completing the Basic Microsurgery Course. They are postdoctoral research fellows at CCF, and we wish them great success in their careers🔬⭐️

We are incredibly proud of our research fellow and students on their residency Match! Congratulations on this exciting milestone in your careers. You have been outstanding co-fellows, microsurgery instructors, and colleagues—we have no doubt you will be exceptional residents.