BOD Cosmetic Surgery

2013 - Plastic Surgery Board Certified 2009 - 2011 CLEVELAND CLINIC FLORIDA Weston, FL Plastic Surgery Residency 2003 - 2009 MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER Miami Beach, FL General Surgery Residency 1999 - 2003 PONCE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Ponce, PR Doctor of Medicine 1994 - 1998 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI Coral Gables, FL Bachelor of Science Major - Biology Minor - Chemistry, Finance HONORS & CERTIFICATIONS Florida Medical License Runner-up South Florida Chapter ACS Paper Competition 2007 - Open Thoracic Window: An Alternative for Retained Pulmonary Infections in Critically Ill Trauma Patients Surgical Intern of the Year 2003-2004 PRESENTATIONS/PUBLICATIONS 2011 - Thoracoplasty For Recurrent Pectus Excavatum, End of the Year Business Dinner and Senior Residents Case Presentation; Miami Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons Coral Gables, FL 2011 - Bovine Pericardium Application in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, 54th (Poster Presentation) Annual Scientific Meeting of the Southeastern Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons Naples, FL 2011 - Bovine Pericardium Application in Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, 22nd Annual Surgical Research Forum Paper Presentations, South Florida Chapter of the American College of Surgeons FIU Medical School Campus Miami, FL 2010 - Alloderm Performance in the Setting of Prosthetic Breast Surgery, Infection, and Irradiation (Management of Red Breast Syndrome), Letter to the Editor; Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. , September 2010. In 2008 - Traumatic Pneumonectomy: Big Disaster, Big Save (Spectacular Cases) presented at 94th Annual American College of Surgeons Meeting San Francisco, CA 2006 - High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation: An Alternative in Severe ARDS (Poster presentation at XIX Annual Pan-American Trauma Congress in Cartagena, Colombia) 2006 - Open Thoracic Window: An Alternative for Retained Pulmonary Infections in Critically Ill Trauma Patients (presented at Florida Committee On Trauma Annual Meeting; Paper Competition) 2006 - Endovascular Infrapopliteal Approaches to Limb Salvage (presented at South Florida Society of Vascular Surgery 2006 annual meeting) ORGANIZATIONS Present - American Society of Plastic Surgeons Present - Miami Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons July 2001 - May 2003 Surgical Interest Group - President/Co-Founder Arranged and coordinated forums between medical students and local surgeons in different specialties with the goal to build and foster awareness of the surgical field. VOLUNTEER AND COMMUNTIY SERVICES February/October 2011 InterPlast/Smile Train Semi-Annual Cleft Lip/Palate Trip San Pedro Sula, Honduras March 2002. Attented the 3rd International Community Health Fair Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 1999 - 2001 Annual Preventive Medicine Awareness Fair Ponce, Puerto Rico 1996 - 1998 Emergency Room Volunteer Aventura Medical Center, Florid

Dr. Rafael E. Salas received his Bachelor degree from the University of Miami which led him to receive his Master of Biomedical Sciences from Barry University School of Medicine in Miami Shores, FL. He later on went into the medicine field and received his Doctorate in Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. Academic Appointments: 2010 - 2011 Courtesy Assistant Professor University of South Florida College of Medicine Tampa, Florida 2007 - 2010 Clinical Fellow University of South Florida Tampa General Hospital, Division of Plastic Surgery 2002 - 2006 Clinical Fellow Harvard Medical School Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Surgery Boston, Massachusetts Honors and Awards: 2007 USF Health Research Day Outstanding Poster Presentation