Craniofacial Fellowship

A native of Connecticut, Dr. Michael Alperovich is a Board Certified plastic surgeon, full-time faculty member, and Director of the Craniofacial Fellowship at Yale University. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University, attended the University of Oxford for graduate school receiving Distinction honors, and graduated Alpha Omega Alpha from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Alperovich completed a plastic surgery residency and a craniofacial fellowship at New York University's Department of Plastic Surgery. He has clinical expertise in facial, breast and body aesthetic surgery. Notably, Dr. Alperovich is a national leader in gender affirming facial surgery and previously taught one of the first courses in the United States on this topic. Watch a video with Dr. Michael Alperovich>> Dr. Alperovich has been named to Connecticut Magazine's "Top Doctors" list for consecutive years and to New York Magazine's New York Metro "Top Doctors" list. He has been invited nationally and internationally as a visiting professor and guest faculty to speak about craniofacial, gender affirming and aesthetic surgery. Dr. Alperovich has authored over 200 publications and multiple plastic surgery book chapters. He serves on the Editorial Board of plastic surgery journals as well as contributes as an ad hoc reviewer for several other journals.

A Connecticut native, Kerry A. Morrison, MD is a plastic and craniofacial surgeon at Yale University in the Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery. She is a Cum Laude graduate of Columbia College, Columbia University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree and was the Columbia College Campus Life Leadership Award recipient. For medical school, she graduated from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons with Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society distinction as well as the Doctor Allen O. Whipple Memorial Prize in Surgery. During medical school, she completed a research year in plastic and reconstructive surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia University and Weill Cornell, and her basic science research merited receipt of the prestigious Gingrass Award from the Plastic Surgery Research Council. Dr. Morrison completed Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residency training and served as Chief Resident at New York University (NYU) Langone Health’s Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery, ranked the number one plastic surgery residency program in the country during her time there. She completed her Craniofacial Surgery Fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Morrison has a commitment to providing the highest quality surgical care to her patients, and her clinical focus is in adult and pediatric craniofacial surgery as well as pediatric plastic surgery. With a keen interest in cleft lip and palate, microtia, craniosynostosis, and vascular anomalies, she is fellowship-trained in caring for pediatric plastic surgery patients, and her research endeavors parallel her clinical interests. Dr. Morrison is an academic plastic and reconstructive surgeon, who has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, contributed book chapters, presented nationally, and received numerous research accolades. In addition to her clinical practice, she remains dedicated to teaching and mentorship, and is a member of multiple national plastic surgery societies.

Dr. Bohdan Pomahac is Division Chief of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. Dr. Pomahac joined the Yale Surgery and Smilow Cancer Hospital community from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he was the Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Distinguished Chair in Surgery and Director of Vascular Composite Allograft Transplantation program.A pioneer in his field, Dr. Pomahac’s team performed the first three full-face transplant procedures in the United States, and the first successful bilateral upper extremity transplantation in the Northeast. Dr. Pomahac made Brigham and Women’s Hospital the world leader in vascularized composite transplantation completing 10 face and 3 bilateral hand transplants.Dr. Pomahac’s expertise adds to a growing portfolio of destination programs in the Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at Yale, which has grown into a multidisciplinary enterprise—with novel programs across Connecticut, including wound healing, craniofacial surgery, melanoma treatment, targeted muscle reinnervation, breast reconstruction, and cutting-edge research in machine learning and 3D printing.