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Stanford Plastic Surgery, 1000 Welch Road, Palo Alto, CA (2026)

09/01/2026

Congratulations to Cyrus Press, administrative and finance associate in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, on taking third place at the inaugural Stanford Medicine Spark Tank! 🎉

Spark Tank is a riff on "Shark Tank," but instead of entrepreneurs pitching products, staff from across the School of Medicine pitched ideas to improve the way we work. Cyrus presented his Copilot Business Purpose & Expense Tool, a project aimed at streamlining how business purposes get written and processed — taking a small, repetitive task that eats up time across every department and making it faster.

Judges scored each pitch on how meaningful the problem was, how creative the solution was, whether it could realistically be built, and whether it could scale beyond one department.

"It was fantastic to see such a broad representation of our departments throughout the School of Medicine and all the great work that is happening to make the School run more effectively," said Michael Hallas, Associate Dean and COO.

Congrats to Cyrus and to all of this year's presenters.

Full story: https://brnw.ch/21x5mqT

08/31/2026

Happy birthday, Dr. Hentz! 🥳

Wishing a wonderful day to our former division chief, from all of us in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 🎂

08/30/2026

Hi 👋 I’m KJ, the current PGY-6 chief resident on the Valley service. Come follow me for a day!

Good morning from the Valley! Our team includes a PGY-2 and PGY-3 on the burn team, a PGY-4 and PGY-6 on the main plastics service, and our amazing APPs. Our Valley rotations throughout residency are such an important part of training in burn and trauma management - let’s do it!

Each week we host a teaching conference in the morning - this week, micro skills lab! All the residents, APPs, and sub Is spent the morning with Dr. Alex Li under the scope. Super nice to have a functioning microscope in our clinic to practice with.

In addition to hand trauma and burn, we also do quite a bit of breast reconstruction at the Valley. Started my day with Dr. Cheesborough and Dr. Vaughn doing a DIEP flap.

Post case fuel - A key experience of the valley is a stop at the taco truck out front.

Checking in on our inpatients with my current PGY-4, Sierra, while she works through some hand cases with Dr. Hoang.

Quick stop at the Valley farmers market when time allows! One of my favorite things about residency in California is having fresh produce from farmers markets right on site at the hospital - both at SCVMC and Kaiser.

After cases are done, consults are seen, and the team is caught up, we head home for the night! If I’m lucky, my daughter might still be awake when I get home, so I can spend a little time with her before bedtime. ❤️

Baby is down, pager is quiet, enjoying a little moment to myself with some tea in the backyard. A pretty good way to end the day

08/29/2026

Hi, I’m Max Silverstein, one of the PGY5s, currently on my gender rotation. This is my day in the life.

I live right in Palo Alto which has great bike routes for getting to the hospital! A quick bike ride is a great way to start the day.

Today I’m doing a case in LPCH, our children’s hospital. We’re lucky to train in some of the most beautiful hospitals in the country.

In pre-op I ran into one of our PGY2s, Jenny, who is on her craniofacial rotation!

After that, I went to the OR where I met my attending Dr. Bene, the new director of our gender program!

After that, I went to the OR where I met my attending Dr. Bene, the new director of our gender program!

A couple action shots! At Stanford we get a great mix of autonomy and teaching in the OR.

Finished! Today we had a great team including one of our sub-Is, David, and all-star scrub tech, Janet.

On my way out I stopped by the Stanford adult hospital to check on a patient. This is the beautiful atrium near the entrance!

And finally my bike ride home! Another beautiful day in Palo Alto...

08/28/2026

Hi 👋, I’m Naomi Cole, and this is a day in my life as a PGY4 plastic surgery resident at Stanford.

Naomi, here. Your friendly PGY-4 rotating on the Stanford service. Days tend to float into nights, wouldn’t you say? Let’s see if you can figure out what side of the sun I’m on. Let the games begin!

Nectar of the gods. Nothing like a little team pick me up to get the day started…or a mea culpa to curb the fire from friends in the ED.

Paint with all the colors of the wind (scrubs)! Blue, powder blue, navy blue and black— ROY G BIV? Never heard of her! Kidding, kidding. Our color palette may be narrow but our operative experience is broad. Four residents, four rotations — Stanford, Kaiser, Valley and Hand.

Who says Latin is a dead language? Clearly they haven’t heard of a flexor carpi ulnaris! Summer is all about anatomy. This week’s dissection lab focused on the hand and upper extremity. Riveting.

All that formaldehyde worked up an appetite. I can always trust my fig tree, Clementine, to keep me satisfied. All for the price of a little tender love and care (read: water, fertilizer, shifting in and out of direct sunlight more than your average pressure sore turns. She’s not demanding at all.)

Alas, duty calls. Nothing that a quick 5-0 monocryl and dermabond can’t fix.

Oh! What’s this? A real time, warm hand off!

ICG-Spy with my four eyes a PGY 6,4,2,1 and rockstar med studs. A Good morning to most and to one, a goodnight 😉

ROY G BIV, fancy meeting you here. Thats my queue to go get some REM. Thanks for following along! Goodbye sun, hello moon. 🫶🏾

08/27/2026

Hi, I’m Connor, a PGY3 plastic surgery resident. This is a day in my life.

Getting ready for a day in the OR on the burn unit! My cat Elvis always does his best to keep me from leaving in the morning.

We’ve got 4 cases in the OR today! Our first patient had a deep gluteal burn which we excised and designed a keystone flap for coverage. Here we are making our incisions.

Our second case was a scar release and local tissue rearrangement for a patient with axillary scar contractures. Here’s our PGY2 Dominic Romeo leading the charge!

All smiles after an excellent day of surgery with Dr. Sheckter and the rest of our superb scrub staff!

After work, a quick trip to the climbing gym with my fiancée and our friend. Definitely our go-to activity to decompress, and only 10 minutes from our house!

Finally, unwinding a bit more at home with a glass of pluot wine from the farmer’s market on our back porch!

08/26/2026

👋 I’m Dominic, a PGY2 at Stanford Plastic Surgery. Come follow me for a day in the life of a resident here at Stanford.

Morning run. Work is busy and can sometimes goes late, so I try to get my workout done before heading to the hospital.

Morning microsurgery practice—I was able to do microsurgery in two different cases over the last week or so, and I have much to learn. Fortunately, Dr. Li offered some extremely helpful pointers, and I am ready for round three!

Here is a picture of the OR team after I was a part of my first keystone flap and my first axillary scar release. Surgery is a team sport, this was a great day in the OR.

Here is another OR photo with my legendary chief, Connor Wagner. I followed Connor at CHOP for my research year and even inherited his old office. Now we are co-residents and it has been amazing being on the same team!

This is Dr. Sheckter’s last day at Valley. He is truly loved here and he’ll be dearly missed . Hopkins is so lucky to have him.

After work I realized we were out of groceries, so my wife daughter and me made a quick family trip to the grocery store before rushing back home. Everyone in the family gets a cart.

Pool time!

Dinner is important, but what comes after is usually better. Ice cream is my daughter and my favorite treat.

Some quality literature before bedtime.

08/25/2026

Hi, my name is Diego Gomez, and I’m a PGY-1 plastic surgery resident at Stanford. I’m kicking off our 2026 Resident Takeover by bringing you along for a day in my life. Follow along! Diego

Every morning starts with some fresh coffee.

Walking into the hospital to start the day. We’re pretty lucky to have views like this on the way to work.

Pre-rounding. We’re fortunate to have wonderful sub-interns who help us gather data and prepare wound care supplies.

Morning rounds with the plastic surgery team and our visiting medical students.

Spending the morning in clinic with Dr. Mohan! And, of course, we had to order some boba for a quick break.

Time to operate! Heading into the OR with the team for the next case of the day.

More cases. Here I am operating with PGY-2 Dr. Melissa Tran.

Every Tuesday we have dedicated teaching time. Today’s session focused on hand anatomy and surgical principles.

Ending the day with a quick workout at our Stanford gym in Redwood City.

08/24/2026

The residents are taking over! 🩺📱

Next week, six residents—one from every class year—will take over our account to give you a firsthand look at life in Stanford Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery.

Follow along with Diego Gomez, PGY-1; Dominic Romeo, PGY-2; Connor Wagner, PGY-3; Naomi Cole, PGY-4; Max Silverstein, PGY-5; and Kelsey Lipman, PGY-6, as they take us behind the scenes of their training and share a day in their lives.

Stay tuned!

08/23/2026

On Friday, we gathered to honor Dr. James Chang as he steps down as division chief after 20 years of exceptional leadership.

The evening was an opportunity to celebrate Dr. Chang’s remarkable impact and reflect on the vision, dedication, and commitment to excellence that have shaped our division over the past two decades.

Thank you, Dr. Chang, for your extraordinary leadership and for all you have done for our faculty, trainees, staff, patients, and the entire Stanford Plastic Surgery community. Please join us in celebrating Dr. Chang and this incredible chapter!

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