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Moderators

Jane A. Petro, MD, FACS, FAACS
AACS and New York Medical College, Jamaica Plain, MA

Suzan Obagi, MD, FAACS
UPMC Cosmetic Surgery and Skin Health Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Welcome

J. Kevin Duplechain, MD, FACS, FAACS
Program Chair, AACS 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting

Housekeeping Items

Victoria Ceh, MPA
CEO/Executive Director, American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery

President’s Welcome

Mark Mandell-Brown, MD, FAACS
President, American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery

Keynote: The Art of Breast Reconstruction - A Sensitive Topic

Andrea A. Moreira, MD
Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA

Dr. Moreira is a board-certified Plastic Surgeon and the director of the breast reconstruction program at Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is also an adjunct staff at the Cleveland Clinic and an assistant professor at Case Western Reserve Lerner School of Medicine. She completed general and plastic surgery residencies at UNIFESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil. She relocated to the United States, and she pursued plastic surgery residency at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Moreira has accumulated extensive clinical knowledge in the field of breast reconstruction, and she is the author of several peer review papers. Her main areas of research focus on innovations on breast reconstruction and microsurgery, particularly robotic assisted DIEP flap harvest and breast resensation. Her overall vision is to develop state-of-art ways to care for breast reconstruction patients, through clinical knowledge and research.