Reconstructive Transplantation

Dr. Gurunian received his medical degree from Marmara University School of Medicine, Istanbul, 1991 and completed his plastic surgery residency at the same university in 1997. Dr. Gurunian then continued his training in the U.S.A. and completed a 1-year Microsurgery Fellowship, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, 2000-2001. He further trained for one year in Innsbruck, Austria, at the department of Plastic Surgery, specializing in breast reconstruction and reconstructive microsurgery.  Dr. Gurunian received his PhD completing Doctorate in Anatomy, Istanbul 2003. 

Dr. Gurunian became the chief plastic surgeon at Denver Medical Center, University of Colorado Health Sciences in 2006. His focus and interest were breast reconstruction and head and neck reconstruction.

In 2014, Dr. Gurunian appointed as staff physician at the department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio. He was one of the transplant surgeons performing the first total face transplant in the U.S.A (3rd face transplant at Cleveland Clinic), May 4-5, (2017).

In 2021, Dr. Gurunian appointed as the chief of Plastic Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. He continues to have Medical Staff reappointment and privileges at the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus. In Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, he pioneered breast reconstruction and lymphatic surgery introducing this niche service to UAE for the first time.

Dr. Gurunian is an American board and European board-certified plastic surgeon and a professor of Plastic Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Lerner college of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.  Dr. Gurunian has practiced in Europe, in the USA, and in the middle East and has vast experience in plastic surgery, especially in the field of breast surgery, breast reconstruction, reconstructive microsurgery and vascularized tissue allotransplantation.

Antonio Rampazzo, MD PhD, joined Cleveland Clinic's Plastic Surgery Department in 2014 after completing a craniofacial surgery fellowship at the University of Michigan and is co-director of the Cleft Lip-Palate/ Craniofacial Anomalies Program and Hand Transplant Program.

Dr. Antonio Rampazzo received his medical degree from the University of Padova (Italy) in 2001. He completed his residency in plastic surgery at the University of Padova (Italy) in 2006.  He further trained for 2 years in London, United Kingdom (Queen Victoria Hospital, St Andrew's Center for Plastic Surgery and Royal London Hospital). He then completed a 1-year reconstructive microsurgery fellowship at E-Da Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. In 2010, he worked as a research fellow at Cleveland Clinic with Dr Maria Siemionow on vascularized composite allotransplantation until July 2011. Then, he completed a two years hand surgery fellowship at Christine Marie Kleinert Institute, Louisville, Kentucky (2011-2013).

His specialty interests are pediatric and adult craniomaxillofacial surgery, hand and wrist surgery, microsurgical reconstructions, and face and hand transplantation.

Dr Rampazzo is an Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. His research interests include vascularized composite allotransplantation, face, hand and abdominal wall transplantation, new techniques in craniomaxillofacial surgery and microsurgery.  He has written

History of vascularized composite allotransplantation.- Immunosuppression protocols in VCA transplantation.- Face transplantation: Cleveland Clinic Experience.- Orthognathic Outcomes and Technical Considerations in Vascularized Composite Facial Allotransplantation.- Facial Composite Vascularized Allotransplantation: Barcelona Experience.- Facial Transplantation: First Canadian Experience.- Facial allotransplantation: outcomes and results of Amien/Lyon team.- VCA in head and neck region.- FACE TRANSPLANTATION By OZKAN TEAM (TURKEY).- Facial Transplantation: Nonimmune-related hyperacute graft failure.- The Helsinki Vascularized Composite Allograft Program.- Laryngeal Transplantation, I.- Laryngotracheal Transplant.- UPPER EXTREMITY TRANSPLANTATION.- Hand and upper extremity transplantation.- Hand transplantation program at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, India Technical considerations (PART 1).- Hand transplantation program at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, India Postsurgical management, Outcomes and Special considerations (Part 2).- Hand Transplantation CM Kleinert Institute for Hand and Microsurgery Experience.- Hand Allotransplantation: The Penn Experience.- Upper Extremity Transplantation: The Massachusetts General Hospital Experience.- Upper Extremity Allotransplantation: our long-term experience in Lyon.- Hand transplantation: The Brigham and Women's Hospital experience.- Double hand transplant Monza.- United States Military Hand Allotransplantation.- LOWER EXTREMITY TRANSPLANTATION by OZKAN TEAM (TURKEY).- Quadruple Extremity Transplantation.- Vascularized knee joint allotransplantation.- Abdominal Wall Transplantation.- Abdominal wall transplantation with microsurgical technique.- Deceased Donor Uterus Transplantation.- Uterus Transplant: The Dallas Experience.- Live birth from theworld's first ever successful uterus transplant and the following second case from Turkey: Technical Aspects, surgical and obstetric outcomes.- Conventional Surgical Techniques and Emerging Transplantation in Complex Penile Reconstruction.- Future directions of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation.- Ethical Considerations of Living Donation in Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation.