About Dr. Lee

Dr. Charles K. Lee is a board certified plastic surgeon with expertise in reconstructive microsurgery and cosmetic surgery.  He graduated from Washington University-St.Louis with Honors and as a Scholar in the Program in Medicine. He completed his Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery residency at the University of Chicago and then went on to complete a fellowship in Microsurgery and Hand Surgery at the Buncke Clinic, San Francisco.  He joined the full-time faculty at the Buncke Clinic from 2004-2007 and was on the core clinical faculty at Stanford University. He opened his private practice at the L plastic surgery center in July 2007.

Dr. Lee is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) and is the Medical Director of Microsurgery and Wound Care at St.Mary’s Medical Center, San Francisco. Dr. Lee has been featured on television shows and teaching videos, and has presented and published papers internationally on topics in plastic surgery and microsurgery. He sits on the clinical advisory board to several major medical corporations for his expertise in plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Dr. Lee is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, the only board recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties in plastic surgery. He is an active member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, the California Society of Plastic Surgeons, and the American College of Surgeons, where he is a Fellow of the College.

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TRAINING & EDUCATION

HONORS, AWARDS

Biography

Current Position:

Director and CEO of L plastic surgery – Form & Function

Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, The University of California-San Francisco (UCSF)

Director of Microsurgery and Wound Care at St. Mary’s Medical Center-San Francisco Attending Surgeon at the PROS (Plastic, Reconstructive, & Orthopedic Surgery) Center, San Francisco
(http://www.stmarysmedicalcenter.org/Medical_Services/Surgical_Services/047847)

Section Editor (Reconstructive Surgery) for E Plasty, an Online Journal of Plastic Surgery
(www.eplasty.com)

Teaching Duties and Lectures

-Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery (Plastic), University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

-Stanford University Plastic Surgery Oral Board Review Course, Examiner, Stanford, California, October 2006, October 2007, October 2008.

-Course Director of the Plastic, Hand, Microsurgery Rotation—San Francisco Orthopedic Surgery Residency, SMMC (2008-Present)

- Section Editor for E Plasty (Reconstructive Surgery) —Online Journal of Plastic Surgery (2007-Present)

-Invited KeyNote Lecturer to the 25th Anniversary Korean Society for Surgery of the Hand, Seoul, Korea, November 2007.

-Guest Lecturer at the Catholic University Hospital, Seoul, Korea, November 2007.

-Visiting Professor, Asan Medical Center, Plastic Surgery, Seoul, Korea, April 2007.

-Guest Lecturer at Korea University, Plastic Surgery, Seoul, Korea, April 2007.

-Guest Lecturer at Samsung Hospital, Plastic Surgery, Seoul, Korea, February 2006.

-Guest Lecturer at Kosin Hospital, Plastic Surgery, Pusan, Korea, February 2006.

Foreign Mission Trips

-Proyecto Mira with Dr. Robert Walton, Microtia & Nasal Reconstruction; San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 2001 & September 2002.

-Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery with Dr.McKay McKinnon, Choluteca, Honduras, February 2002.

Hospital Staff Privileges:

St. Mary’s Medical Center, (SMMC) San Francisco

California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC), San Francisco

San Francisco Surgery Center, San Francisco

San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco

Moffitt Hospital, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco

Publications & Presentations

Publications

Herrera F, Lee C, Kiehn M, Hansen SL "The Superficial Branch of the SFA (Saphenous Artery) as a Recipient Vessel in Peri Knee Reconstruction," Microsurgery, in press.

Lee C, Hansen S, Contributing Editors to the Yearbook in Hand and Upper Limb 2008, Editor James Chang, MD.

Herrera F, Lee C, Buncke G, et al, "Simultaneous Double Second Toe Transplantation for MultiDigit Reconstruction," Jo. of Reconstructive Microsurgery, in press.

Kiehn M, Brooks D, Lee C, et al. "Patency of radial arteries reconstructed after radial forearm flap harvest," J Reconstr Microsurgery 2007;23:347-50.

Buncke G, Buncke H, Lee C, "Great Toe to Thumb Microvascular Transplantation in Traumatic Thumb Injuries," Hand Clinics, Elsevier, February 2007..

Lee C, Hansen S, "Surgical Management of Acute Wounds," Clinics in Plastic Surgery-Surgical Wound Healing November 2007, Granick M-Editor.

Cappuccino G, Granick M, Lee C, et al, "Single Stage Treatment of Pressure Ulcers: Flap Coverage Following Debridement with a High Pressure Parallel Water Jet," Injury Feb/March 2007.

Lee C--Contributing Editor to the Yearbook in Hand and Upper Limb Surgery 2007, Elsevier, Editors James Chang and Scott Steinmann.

Lee C, Buncke G, "Great Toe to Thumb Transplantation," Clinics in Plastic Surgery, Replantation and Transplantation, April 2007, Datiashvilli R-Editor.

Buntic R, Horton K, Brooks D, Lee C, "Free Partial Superior Latissimus Muscle Flaps: Preservation of Donor Site Form and Function," Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, May 2008.

Miranda E…Lee C, "Vertical Rectus Myocutaneous Flap for Reconstruction of a Sacral Hernia," British Jo. of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, November 2007

Lee C--Contributing Editor to the Yearbook in Hand and Upper Limb Surgery 2006, Elsevier, Editors James Chang and Scott Steinmann.

Lee C, Pardun J, Buntic R, et al, "Severe Frostbite of the Knees after Postoperative Cryotherapy," Orthopedics, January 2007.

Lee C, Kiehn M, Buncke G, "Replantation," Pearls of Wisdom in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, McGraw Hill, 2006.

Lee C, Kiehn M, et al, "Breast Reconstruction & Microsurgery," Pearls of Wisdom in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, McGraw Hill, 2006.

Strasberg S, Hertl C, Mackinnon SE, Lee C, et al., "Peripheral Nerve Allograft Preservation Improves Regeneration...."Experimental Neurology, 139, 306-316 (1996).

Presentations (Abbreviated List)

Lee C, Hansen S, Sen M, "Wound Reconstructive Surgery," Master Series in Surgical Wound Reconstruction Symposium, Smith & Nephew, San Francisco, August 2008.

Lee C, "The Reconstructive Ladder, Wound Care, Negative Pressure," Master’s Symposium in Wound Surgery," S&N, Chicago, July 2008.

Lee C, "Plastic Surgery and Beyond the Extreme Makeover," Invited Speaker, APAC Quarterly Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2008.

Lee C, "Replantation in the Upper Extremity," Plastic Surgery, Hand and Upper Extremity Grand Rounds, University of California-San Francisco (UCSF), April 2008.

Lee C, "Plastic Surgery and the Science of Wound Healing," Noon Conference, St.Marys’ Medical Center, San Francisco, February 21, 2008.

Lee C, "Lower Extremity Reconstruction around the Knee, "Catholic University Hospital, Gangnam Hospital," Grand Rounds, Seoul, Korea, November 2007.

Lee C, "Muscle versus Fasciocutaneous Flap Controversy," Korean Society for Surgery of the Hand, Seoul, Korea, November 2007, President’s Invited Speaker.

Lee C, "Preparing for the Plastic Surgery Board Examination," University of California San Francisco (UCSF) -Core Curriculum Conference, Section of Plastic Surgery, June 2007.

Lee C, "Nasal Reconstruction," University of California San Francisco (UCSF)-Core Curriculum Conference, Section of Plastic Surgery, San Francisco, CA, May 2007.

Lee C, "Microsurgery: Hypercoaguability and Achilles Tendon Reconstruction," Asan Medical Center, Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds/Korea University-Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds, Seoul, Korea, April 2007.

Lee C, "Surgical Wound Debridement and the Reconstructive Ladder," Master’s Course in Surgical Wound Management, University of California-San Diego, June 2007.

Lee C, "Near Infrared Spectroscopy: Clinical Applications in Microsurgery," UCLA Department of Plastic Surgery- Journal Club Presentation, Los Angeles, CA, March 2007.

Lee C, "Lower Extremity Salvage with a Latissisimus Muscle Microvascular Transplantation after 2 Failed Free Flaps in a Hypercoaguable State," Best Microsurgical Save Presentation, ASRM January 2007, Puerto Rico.

Safa B, Lee C, Buncke G, "The Gracilis Musculotendinous Microvascular Transplant for Achilles Tendon Reconstruction," ASRM January 2007, Puerto Rico.

Herrera F, Lee C, Camberos A, et al, "Simultaneous Double Second Toe Transplantation for Traumatic Multi Digit Loss," ASRM, January 2007, Puerto Rico.

Kryger G, Lee C, Safa B, Lohman R, Gottlieb L, Walton RL, "Microsurgery in the Hypercoaguable Patient," Plastic Surgery at the Red Sea International Symposium, Israel, March 2007.

Granick M, Datiashvili R, Lee C, "Applications of Hydrosurgery in Plastic Surgery," Plastic Surgery at the Red Sea International Symposium, Israel, March 2007.

Lee C, "Perforator Flaps in Extremity and Breast Surgery," Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds, University of California at Davis, June 2006.

Paydar K, Lee C, "Blepharospastic Lower Lid Entropion—Diagnosis and Treatment" California Society of Plastic Surgeons," June 2006.

Lee C, "Tumors of the Upper Extremity," Grand Rounds, Stanford University, Department of Plastic Surgery, November 2005.

Lee C, "History and Future of Microsurgery," First Annual Microsurgery Nursing Symposium, CPMC, October 2005.

Lee C, "Upper Extremity Reconstruction with Perforator Flaps," UCSF Grand Rounds, Department of Plastic Surgery, July 2005.

Lee C, Cetrulo C, Buntic R, Buncke G, "Refinements in Lower Extremity Reconstruction with the Split and Enlargement Principle," presented at CSPS May 2005, poster presentation at ASRM 2006.

Cetrulo C, Lee C, Buntic, et al, "Management of Exposed Total Knee Prosthesis with Microvascular Tissue Transfer," presented at CSPS May 2005 and ASRM 2006.

Cetrulo C, Nacamuli R, Lee C, "Anterior Interosseus "Free Style" Perforator Flap Reconstruction of a Dorsal Hand Wound," presented at CSPS May 2005.

Lee C, Kiehn M, Buntic R, et al "Quantitative Real Time Measurement of Free Tissue Perfusion with Thermodilution Technology," Presented at CSPS May 2004 and American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery January 2005.

Kiehn M, Brooks D, Lee C, "Patency of Radial Artery Reconstruction after Radial Forearm Free Flap Harvest," Presented at ASRM Janurary 2005.

Lee C, Buntic R, Kiehn M et al, "Severe Frostbite of the Knees after Postoperative Cryotherapy," presented at the California Society of Plastic Surgeons, May 2004.

Lee C, Song D, Lohman R, "Subatmospheric Pressure Therapy (VAC) as an Adjunct or Replacement to Free Tissue Transfer in Lower Extremity Reconstruction," Senior Resident’s Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 2003; Presented at the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery Meeting, Palm Springs, CA, January 2004; World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, Heidelberg, Germany 2003 (Lohman R).

Lee C, Djohan R, Lee RC, et al, "A New Obturator Artery Based Medial Thigh Flap for Perineal and Vaginal Reconstruction," presented at ASPS in Orlando, November 2001.