Denise Pines, president of the Medical Board of California, speaks as part of our cultural competency curriculum.

Leslie Chin, MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business is coming to discuss responding to being called out for bias. This will be the fifth and final course in the Department’s inaugural cultural competency lecture series.

Grand Rounds is canceled so that faculty, staff, and trainees may attend the American College of Surgeons’ Clinical Congress and AASA annual meeting.

Dr. Arash Momeni is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. In addition to offering all reconstructive modalities following mastectomy, Dr. Momeni has developed cutting edge surgical approaches to post-mastectomy reconstruction such as hybrid breast reconstruction (i.e. the combination of free flap transfer and implant placement) and techniques of flap neurotization with the goal to improve sensory recovery to the reconstructed breast.