Curriculum Vitae For

Curriculum Vitae For

CWRU School of Medicine

Date: August 2013

Honors and Awards

Scholarship in Teaching Award, Case Western Reserve University, 2013

Top Doctor by US News and World Report, 2012, 2013

FLEX Professional Development Program, 2012-2013. Inaugural Class, Case Medical School.

VA Quality Scholars Program, Fellow Traveler, 2012-2013. Louis Stokes VA Medical Center

Women Faculty of the School of Medicine Junior Career Development Award, 2012-2013, Case Medical School.

NIH Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program, 2003-2005

Letter of Commendation, Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine 1996

Samuel O. Thier Scholarship for Academic Excellence, 1994

Phi Beta Kappa, 1993

University Scholar Nominee, 1993

Undergraduate Fellow, 1992-1993

National Science Foundation Young Scholars Program, 1989

Membership in Professional Societies

Fellow American College of Surgeons (ACS,) (elected member)

American Society of Plastic Surgery (ASPS,) active member (elected member)

American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons (ASMS,) active member

American Cleft Palate Association (ACPA,) active member

American Council of Academic Plastic Surgeons, applicant

Association of VA Surgeons, applicant

Professional Services

Assistant Editor of the Craniofacial Section of the Plastic Surgery Education Network (PSEN). 2011 to present (Invited position)

Produce content and help develop curricula for PSEN, a national education initiative of the ASPS

Exam Item writer and In-service Exam Committee Member, American Society of Plastic Surgery/National Board of Medical Examiners 2009-present (Invited position)

Produce content, edit content, review statistics, and develop content focus for the Plastic Surgery In-service exam of the ASPS/National Board of Medical Examiners

Reviewer, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2009-present (Invited position)

Peer-reviewer of approximately 3-5 manuscripts/month

Committee Service

National

Organization: American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons

Committee Name/Role: Educational Committee Member

Dates of Service: 2009-present

Organization: American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons

Committee Name/Role: Newsletter Committee Member (Invited member)

Dates of Service: 2009-present

Organization: American Society of Plastic Surgeons

Committee Name/Role: Young Plastic Surgeons Committee Member

Dates of Service: 2009-present

Organization: American Society of Plastic Surgeons

Committee Name/Role: Women Plastic Surgeons Committee Member

Dates of Service: 2009-present

Organization: American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons

Committee Name/Role: Weblinks Subcommittee Chair (Appointed position)

Dates of Service: 2011-present

Organization: American Society of Plastic Surgeons

Committee Name/Role: Women Plastic Surgeons Teleconference Coordinator (Invited position)

Dates of Service: 2011-present

Organization: American Cleft Palate Association

Committee Name/Role: Ethics Committee Member (Invited position)

Dates of Service: 2012-present

Hospital Affiliate

Committee Name/Role: Louis Stokes VA Medical Center, Preventative Ethics/Committee member

Dates of Service: 2009-present

Committee Name/Role: Louis Stokes VA Medical Center Ethics Consult Service/Consult lead (Invited position)

Dates of Service: 2009-present

Committee Name/Role: Case Western Reserve University Medical School Faculty Council (Elected position)

Dates of Service: 2013-present

Educational Committees

Committee Name/Role: Case Medical School Admissions Committee/Interviewer

Dates of Service: 2008-present

Committee Name/Role: Case Medical School Committee of Medical Education (Elected position)

Dates of Service: 2013-present

Teaching Activities

Curriculum/Course Development

(title, group, date, and time dedicated to activity)

1.  Plastic Surgery Residents (6 every year)

Case Medical Center

Department of Plastic Surgery

2008-present

2.  Multimodality Hand Conference, 2008-2012, one conference/month

3.  Core Curriculum development, Department of Plastic Surgery, 2008-present, four conferences/month

4.  Journal Club, item selection and program moderator, Department of Plastic Surgery 2008-present, one conference/month

5.  Professor’s Rounds, curriculum development, Department of Plastic Surgery, one conference/six weeks

6.  Louis Stokes VA Medical Center clerkship curriculum development and oversight, full-time clerkship

7.  Mock Oral Exams, Department of Plastic Surgery, 2009-present, one Mock Oral exam/year

Invited Presentations (including post-graduate and continuing medical education) (should be numbered and in chronological order)

(title, group, date)

1.  “Clinical Approach to Hand Pain” Pain Medicine Grand Rounds, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, October 16, 2008

2.  ”Surgical Approach to Compression Neuropathies”, Neurology Grand Rounds, UH Case Medical Center, June 10, 2009

3.  ”Everything a PCP needs to Know about Burns”, presented at Rockside Internal Medicine, 3/30/ 2009

4.  “Diagnosis and Treatment of Compression Neuropathies”, Medicine Grand Rounds, UH Case Medical Center, July 29, 2009

5.  ”Surgical Ethics”, Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds, UH Case Medical Center, 5/4/2009

6.  “Identification and Management of Nerve Injury”, General Surgery Grand Rounds, UH Case medical Center, 5/20/2009

7.  “Tendon transfers”. Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds, UH Case medical Center, 6/22/2009

8.  “Pressure Sores”, presented Rockside Internal Medicine, 9/17/2009

9.  ”Diagnosis and Treatment of Compression Neuropathies”, Family Medicine Grand Rounds, UH Case Medical Center, 12/3/2009

10.  Everything a PCP needs to Know about Burns, Southwest medical Center Grand Rounds. 1/15/2010

11.  How Plastic Surgeons Think, presentation to CWRU Medical School Students. 2/10/2010

12.  Plastic Surgery Trauma, presentation to Case Western Reserve University students of Phi-D premedical Society. 10/07/2010

13.  “Surgical Approach to Hand Pain” Pain Medicine Grand Rounds, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, July 21, 2011

14.  “Burn Management for Primary Care Physicians,” Family Medicine Grand Round, UH Case Medical Center, 9/21/2011

15.  “Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: An approach to the Complex patient,” Pain Management SCAN-ECHO (Level I CME) Louis Stokes VA Medical Center (and satellite facilities), 7/12/12

16.  “Decisions and Revisions: the Post-operative Symptomatic Patient,” Pain Management SCAN-ECHO (Level I CME) Louis Stokes VA Medical Center (and satellite facilities), 7/19/12

17.  “Thinking Like a Surgeon” Presentation to Case Western Reserve University students of Phi-D Medical Society, 10/8/2012

18.  “Everything a PCP Needs to Know about Burns,” presented to Parma Medical Group, 12/13/2012

19.  “Tendon transfers,” Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds, UH Case medical Center, 2/11/20013

20.  “Plastic Surgery Principles,” Case Western Reserve University Medical School, 8/13/2013

21.  “Carpal Tunnel Syndrome” Pain Management SCAN-ECHO (Level I CME) Louis Stokes VA Medical Center (and satellite facilities), 8/29/2013

22.  “Cubital Tunnel Syndrome” Pain Management SCAN-ECHO (Level I CME) Louis Stokes VA Medical Center (and satellite facilities), 9/12/2013

Invited Faculty

1.  Utah Facial Surgery Meeting. February 5-8, 2010. Park City, Utah.

2.  Session Moderator, Ohio Valley Society of Plastic Surgery 53rd Annual Scientific Meeting. May 14-16th, 2010. Cleveland, Ohio

3.  Invited Panelist, Residents’ Day, American Society of Plastic Surgery Annual Meeting, “Academic Practice,” Denver, CO, September 23, 2011

4.  Session Moderator, American Society of Plastic Surgery Annual Meeting, Craniomaxillofacial Session, New Orleans, LA October 27, 2012

5.  Invited Panelist, Residents’ Day, American Society of Plastic Surgery Annual Meeting, “Academic Practice,” New Orleans, LA, October 26, 2012

6.  AMWA Leadership Workshop, panelist, February 18, 2013, Case Western Reserve Medical School

7.  Invited Faculty, “How Surgeons Use the Radiology Read to Plan” PNWRS Conference, Seattle, Washington. June 1-2, 2013

8.  Program Committee member, Ohio Valley Society of Plastic Surgeons, Meeting 2014

Teaching Administration (e.g. residency directorship)

(title, facility, date)

1.  Clerkship Director, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center

Teaching Activities (e.g. lectures to trainees, teaching rotations)

(activity, time spent, date)

Lectures

1.  Core Curriculum, Department of Plastic Surgery, direct teaching and moderation, one hour every week

2.  Indications Conference, Department of Plastic Surgery, direct teaching and moderation, two hours every month

3.  Professors Rounds, Department of Plastic Surgery, direct teaching and moderation, one hour every six weeks

4.  Surgical Instruction, Department of Plastic Surgery, direct teaching and moderation, two full clinical days/week

5.  Clinical Instruction, Department of Plastic Surgery, direct teaching and moderation, three clinical days/week

Research Support (list recent to oldest)

(granting agency, title of project, principal investigator, percent of effort, total direct costs awarded, dates inclusive [start – end]}

1.  CRANIO Fellowship, 10/10-10/11. American Society of Maxillofacial Surgery.

2.  Ethicon Grant for Visiting Professorship of Dr. Akira Yamada, 2009.

3.  McDonnell Center for Higher Brain Function Grant, “Functional Neuroanatomy of Lexical Processing in Cleft Lip and Palate” Project start 7/05. Project end 7/07. Co-investigator.

4.  ACPA Junior Investigators Grant, “Long-term Clinical Outcome of Surgically Corrected Unilateral Coronal Craniosynostosis on Craniofacial Development and Neuropsychological Function” Project start 4/03. Project end 7/04.

5.  Undergraduate Research Program Grant, “Honorifics in the Shona Language” Project start 9/92. Project end 5/94.

Bibliography (published or in press only) (should be numbered and in chronological order)

Peer-reviewed Articles

(author(s) [list of authors], title of article, journal and year, volume, pages)

1) Devra B. Becker, John N. Jensen, Terence M. Myckatyn, Vaishali B. Doolabh, Daniel A. Hunter, and Susan E Mackinnon. Effects of FKBP-12 Ligands Following Tibial Nerve Injury in Rats. Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery 16: 613-620, 2000.

2) Joseph Borrelli, Jr., William Prickett, Edward Song, Devra Becker, and William Ricci. Extraosseous Blood Supply of the Tibia and the Effects of Different Plating Techniques: A Cadaveric Study. Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma. 16(10): 691-5, 2002.

3) J. Dayne Petersen, Devra B. Becker, Christopher E. Fundakowski, Jeffrey L. Marsh, Alex A. Kane. A Novel Management for Calcifying Cephalohematoma. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 113(5):1404-9, 2004.

4) Jason Dundulis, Devra B. Becker, Daniel P. Govier, Jeffrey L. Marsh, Alex A. Kane. Coronal Ring Involvement in Patients Treated for Unilateral Coronal Craniosynostosis. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 114(7):1695-1703, December 2004.

5) Devra B. Becker, Thomas Pilgram, Lynn Marty-Grames, Daniel P. Govier, Jeffrey L. Marsh, Alex A Kane. Accuracy in Identification of Patients with 22q11.2 Deletion by Likely Care Providers Using Facial Photographs. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 114(6):1367-1372, November 2004.

6) Devra B. Becker, Lynn Marty-Grames, Thomas Pilgram, Alex A. Kane, Jeffrey L Marsh. The Effect of Timing of Surgery for Velopharyngeal Dysfunction on Speech. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. 15(5):804-809, September 2004.

7) Devra B. Becker, J. Dayne Petersen, Alex A. Kane, Mary M. Cradock, Thomas Pilgram, Jeffrey L. Marsh, M.D.: Speech, Cognitive, and Behavioral Outcomes in Nonsyndromic Craniosynostoses. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 116(3): 400-407, August 2005.

8) Devra B. Becker, M.D., James M. Cheverud, Ph.D., Daniel P. Govier, Alex A. Kane, M.D. Os Parietale Divisum: Case Report and Review of the Literature. Clinical Anatomy. 18(6):452-456, September, 2005.

9) Devra B. Becker, Christopher E. Fundakowski, Daniel P. Govier, Valerie B. Deleon, Jeffrey L. Marsh, Alex A. Kane. Long-term Osseous Morphological Outcome of Surgically Treated Unilateral Coronal Craniosynostosis. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 117(3):929-935, March 2006.

10) Robert Foglia, Alex Kane, Devra Becker, Jose Asz-Sigall, George Mychaliska. Management of giant omphalocele with rapid creation of abdominal domain. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 41(4):704-9; discussion 704-9, April 2006.

11) Alex A. Kane, Valerie Burke DeLeon, Christopher Valeri, Devra B. Becker, Joan T. Richtsmeier, Lun-Jou Lo. Preoperative Osseous Dysmorphology in Unilateral Complete Cleft Lip and Palate: A Quantitative Analysis of CT Data. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 119(4):1295-301, April 2007.

12) Marissa J. Tenenbaum, Robert P. Foglia, Devra B. Becker, Alex A. Kane. Treatment of giant omphalocele with intraabdominal tissue expansion. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 120(6):1564-7, November 2007.

13) Lynn M. Seidenstricker-Kink, Devra Becker, Daniel P. Govier, Valerie B. Deleon, Lun-Jou Lo, Alex A. Kane. Comparative Osseous and Soft Tissue Morphology Following Cleft Lip Repair. Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Journal. 45(5):511-7, September 2008.

14) Petra A. Jacobsen, Devra B. Becker, Daniel P. Govier, Steven G. Krantz, Alex A. Kane. Ellipsoid Analysis of Calvarial Shape. Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Journal. 46(5): 487-93, September 2009.

15) Devra B Becker, Bradley L Schlaggar, Neil Sachanandani, Rebecca S. Coalson, Heather M. Lugar, Damien Fair, Leslie E. Kirschner, Alex A. Kane. Functional Neuroanatomy of Lexical Processing in Children with Cleft Lip and Palate. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 122(5):1371-82, November, 2008.

16) Elizabeth A. Fowler, Devra Becker, Tom Pilgram, Michael Noetzel, Jay Epstein, Alex A. Kane. Neurological Findings in Infants with Deformational Plagiocephaly Compared with Controls. Journal of Child Neurology. 23 (7): 742-7, July 2008.

17) Devra B. Becker, Frances Lee, Sean Hill, Richard Nissen, Donald Huebener, Sibyl Scheve, Alex Kane. A Survey of Cleft Team Patient Experience in Obtaining Dental Care. Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Journal. 46(4): 444-7, July 2009