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Susan E. Mackinnon, MD

Specialty Areas
Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Nerve Transplantation
Nerve Injury
Peripheral Nerve Injury

Areas of Clinical Interest
Peripheral nerve surgery in hand/upper extremity and lower extremity, carpal tunnel syndrome, tarsal tunnel syndrome, thoracic outlet syndrome, brachial plexus, cumulative trauma disorder, nerve transplant, nerve compression, facial palsy, hand and upper extremity disorders and injuries

Major or Recent Publications/Awards

Awards

Listed in Best Doctors in America, 2002-2008 (Best Doctors, Inc)

Listed in America's Top Doctors, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd, 2002-2008

Outstanding Clinician - First Annual Washington University School of Medicine III Humanity Program Award

Penfield Lecture at the 40th Annual Scientific meeting of the Canadian Congress of Neurological Sciences. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 2005

Honored Senior Professor for Surgery and Rehabilitation of the Hand, Thomas Jefferson University and Hand Rehabilitation Foundation, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, March 2004

Honored Professor, the Philadelphia Annual Hand Surgery Symposium, March, 2004

The J. Joseph Danyo Presidential Invited Lecturer 1, American Association for Hand Surgery, Palm Springs, California, 2004

Medal Award in Surgery, Royal College Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, 1988.

Professional Leadership

American Association of Hand Surgery
Vice President, 2003
President Elect, 2004
President, 2005

American Association of Plastic Surgeons
Treasurer, 2003 – 2005
Vice President, 2005

Recent Books and Book Chapters

Mackinnon SE, Patterson GA, Colbert SH. Supraclavicular approach to first rib resection for thoracic outlet syndrome. In: Cohn LH (ed.). Operative Techniques in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: A Comparative Atlas. 10(4), 318-328, WB Saunders. 2006

Weber RV, Mackinnon SE. Bridging the Neural Gap. In: McKee N (ed.). Clinics in Plastic Surgery 32:4, 605-616, 2005

Weber RV, Mackinnon SE. Management of nerve injuries following a soft tissue and boney trauma. In: WP Cooney III MD (ed.). Williams & Wilkins’ Master Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery Series. Lippincott; 2005

Myckatyn TM, Mackinnon SE. Submuscular ulnar nerve transposition. Neurosurgery Operative Atlas. 5th ed. 2005

Myckatyn TM, Mackinnon SE. Microsurgical repair of peripheral nerves and nerve grafts. Grabb and Smith’s Platic Surgery. 6th ed. 2005

Mackinnon SE, Novak CB. Compressive Neuropathies. In: Green DP, Hotchkiss RN, Pederson WC, Wolfe SW. (eds.). Operative Hand Surgery. 5th Edition. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 2004

Myckatyn TM, Mackinnon SE. A review of facial nerve anatomy. Seminars in Plastic Surgery. 18:5-11, 2004

Rovak JM, Tung TH, Mackinnon SE. The Surgical Management of Facial Nerve Injury. Seminars in Plastic Surgery. 2004

Tung TH, Mackinnon SE: Limb allotransplantation – Experimental. In: Weinzweig N and Weinzweig J (ed.). The Mutilated Hand. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, Inc.; 2004

Myckatyn TM, Mackinnon SE. Surgical Techniques of Nerve Grafting (Standard/Vascularized/Allograft) In: Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics. Philadephia: Elsevier Inc.; 2004

Selected Journal Articles

Tung THH, Doolabh VB, Mackinnon SE, Mohanakumar T, Hicks. Survival of long nerve allografts following donor antigen pretreatment: A pilot study. Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. 2006:22(6)

Fox IK, Jaramillo A, Hunter DA, Rickman SA, Mohanakumar T, Mackinnon SE. Prolonged cold preservation of nerve allografts yields a non-immunogenic graft. Muscle and Nerve. 2005;31:59-69.

Kawamura DH, Hadlock TA, Fox IK, Brenner MJ, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. Regeneration through nerve isografts is independent of nerve geometry. Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. 2005;21(4):243-249.

Sen SK, Lowe JB, Brenner MJ, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. Assessment of the immune response to dose of nerve allografts. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 2005;115(3):823-830.

Jensen JN, Brenner MJ, Tung TH, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. FK506 accelerated peripheral nerve regeneration through long grafts in inbred swine. Annals of Plastic Surgery. 2005;54(4):420-427.

Brenner MJ, Mackinnon SE, Rickman SR, Jaramillo A, Tung, THH, Hunter DA, Mohanakumar T. FK506 and anti-CD40 ligand in peripheral nerve allotransplantation. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience. 2005;23:23(3-4):237-249.

Nichols CM, Myckatyn TM, Rickman SR, Fox IK, Hadlock T, Mackinnon SE, Tung THH, Midha R. Choosing the correct functional assay: A comprehensive assessment of functional tests in the rat. Behavioral Brain Research. 2005;163:143-158.

Oh C, George LT, Hunter DA, Evans GRD, Brandt KE. Effects of irradiation on nerve graft vasculature. Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. 2005;21:397-401

Brenner MJ, Mackinnon SE, Rickman SR, Jaramillo A, Tung THH, Hunter DA, Mohanakumar T. FK506 and anti-CD40 ligand in peripheral nerve allotransplantation. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience. 2005;23:237-249

Mackinnon SE, Novak CB, Myckatyn TM, Tung TH. Results of reinnervation of the biceps and brachialis muscles with a double fascicular transfer for elbow flexion. The Journal of Hand Surgery. 2005;30A:978-985.

Tung TH, Martin DZ, Novak CB Lauryssen C, Mackinnon SE. Nerve reconstruction in lumbosacral plexopathy. Case report and review of the literature. Journal of Neurosurgery. 2005;102(1 suppl);86-91

Fox IK, Schwetye KE, Brenner MJ, Keune JD, Yu JW, Hunter DA, Wood PM, Mackinnon SE. The effect of prolonged cold preservation & Schwann cell injection on nerve allografts. Microsurgery. 2005;25(6):502-507

Novak CB, Mackinnon SE. Evaluation of nerve injury and nerve compression in the upper quadrant. Journal of Hand Therapy. 2005;18(2);230-240

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Susan E. Mackinnon, MD