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The Symani Surgical System robot designed to treat complex patient problems in the field of reconstructive surgery, lymphatic surgery, peripheral nerve repair and trauma. “Patients at Yale New Haven Hospital will now have access to the most advanced world-class treatment options through the use of the Symani robot,” said Bohdan Pomahac, MD, chief, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, YNHH and professor of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine.

The first comprehensive review of outcomes among all face transplant patients shows an 85% five-year success rate.

Yale's Bohdan Pomahac, MD, discusses the future of transplant surgery and explains why the surgeries are rare and complex.

Five years after his full facial transplant surgery, Robert Chelsea reconnects with Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, the division chief of plastic surgery at Yale School of Medicine.

The Department of Surgery is proud to announce the establishment of the Section of Reconstructive Oncology.

Bohdan Pomahac, MD, discusses a combined whole-eye and partial face transplant.

Pomahac is an active leader in facial transplantation. His team performed the first three full-face transplant procedures in the United States, and the first successful bilateral upper extremity transplantation in the northeast. With 10 face transplants overall and four bilateral upper extremity transplants, he has the most extensive experience in the world.

Microsurgery uses instruments with very fine tips and grasping ends, high-magnification microscopes, and other tools to carefully disconnect tissue from one part of the body and reconnect it in a different place. Yale Medicine plastic surgeons discuss how they are using microsurgery to provide patients with better outcomes.