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Face to Face

Performing the first full face transplant

2:00 | Professional Development, Surgery, Transplantation

Maria Siemionow, MD, PhD, Director, Plastic Surgery Research, Head, Microsurgery Training, Cleveland Clinic, talks about her book “Face to Face”, her quest to perform the first full face transplant in the United States and a memoir of her personal and professional journey as doctor in Poland and then in the USA.

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For more on Dr. Siemionow’s book, please visit Amazon.com

For more on this physician, please visit Maria Siemionow, MD, PhD

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