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 | Susan E. Mackinnon M.D.
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Chief, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Shoenberg Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery | Board Certification
Plastic Surgery--Certified | Areas of Specialty and Clinical Interest
Dr. Mackinnon specializes in nerve transplantation, peripheral nerve surgery, and plastic and reconstructive surgery.
Her areas of clinical interest include peripheral nerve surgery in hand/upper extremity and lower extremity, carpal tunnel syndrome, tarsal tunnel syndrome, thoracic outlet syndrome, brachial plexus, cumulative trauma disorder, nerve transplant, nerve compression, facial palsy, and hand and upper extremity disorders and injuries.
Also see Center for Nerve Injury & Paralysis. | Medical School
Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1975 | Postdoctoral Education
Residency: Surgery, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1978
Residency: Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University in Toronto, Canada, 1980
Fellowship: Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Canada, 1981
Fellowship: Hand Surgery, Raymond Curtis Hand Center, Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, 1982 | Patients Seen At
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Center
Center for Advanced Medicine
4921 Parkview Place, Suite G, Floor 6
St. Louis, MO 63110 | Patient Appointments
(314) 362-7388 or (800) 283-5848 | Hospital Affiliations
Barnes-Jewish Hospital | | Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital | | St. Louis Children's Hospital | Funding
NIH - ZRG NeuB -2, 2001-2007
8R01 NS 33406-12
Nerve Allotransplantation for Traumatic Nerve Injury
1 R01 NS051706-01A2, 2006-2011
The Effects of GDNF on Peripheral Nerve Regeneration | Awards/Honors
2007, Listed in Best Doctors in America (Best Doctors, Inc.)
2007, Listed in America's Top Doctors, seventh edition, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.
Penfield Lecture at the 40th Annual Scientific meeting of the Canadian Congress of Neurological Sciences. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 2005
Outstanding Clinician - First Annual Washington University School of Medicine III Humanity Program Award
Honored Senior Professor for Surgery and Rehabilitation of the Hand, Thomas Jefferson University and Hand Rehabilitation Foundation, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, March 2004
Honored Professor, the Philadelphia Annual Hand Surgery Symposium, March, 2004
The J. Joseph Danyo Presidential Invited Lecturer 1, American Association for Hand Surgery, Palm Springs, California, 2004
Medal Award in Surgery, Royal College Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, 1988.
Professional Society Offices
American Association of Hand Surgery
Vice President, 2003
President Elect, 2004
President, 2005
American Association of Plastic Surgeons
Treasurer, 2003 – 2005
Vice President, 2005
Awards Committee Chairperson, 2005-2006 | Selected or Recent Publications
Articles are selected from more than 340 publications authored by Dr. Mackinnon
Hess JR, Brenner MJ, Fox IK, Nichols CM, Myckatyn TM, Hunter DA, Rickman SR, Mackinnon SE. Use of cold preserved allografts seeded with autologous Schwann cells in the treatment of a long-gap peripheral nerve injury. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 2007;119(1):246-259.
Colbert S, Mackinnon SE. Posterior approach for double nerve transfer for restoration of shoulder function in upper brachial plexus palsy. HAND. 2006;1:71-77.
Brenner MJ, Hess JR, Myckatyn TM, Hayashi A, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. Repair of motor nerve gaps with sensory nerve inhibits regeneration in rats. Laryngoscope. 2006;116(9):1685-1692.
Snyder AK, Fox IK, Nichols CM, Rickman SR, Hunter DA, Tung TH, Mackinnon SE. Neuroregenerative effects of preinjury FK-506 administration. Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. 2006;118(2):360-367.
Keune JD, Brenner MJ, Schwetye KE, Yu JW, Fox IK, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. Temporal factors in peripheral nerve reconstruction with suture scaffolds: an experimental study in rodents. Restor Neurol Neurosci. 2006;24(3):181-190.
Hess JR, Brenner MJ, Myckatyn TM, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. Influence of aging on regeneration in end-to-side neurorrhaphy. Annals of Plastic Surgery. 2006;57(2):217-222.
Cohen M, Mohanakumar T, Mackinnon SE, Tung TH. Chimerism after vascularized limb versus bone marrow transplantation. Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. 2006;22(5):375-384.
Lowe JB 3rd, Hunter DA, Talcott MR, Mackinnon SE. The effects of cavernous nerve grafting following surgically induced loss of erectile function in a large-animal model. Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. 2006;118(1):69-80.
Tung THH, Doolabh VB, Mackinnon SE, Mohanakumar T, Hicks. Survival of long nerve allografts following donor antigen pretreatment: A pilot study. Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. 2006:22(6).
Keune JD, Brenner MJ, Schwetye KE, Yu JW, Fox IK, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. Temporal factors in peripheral nerve reconstruction with suture scaffolds: An experimental study in rodents. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience. 2006;22:1-10.
Brenner MJ, Hess JR, Myckatyn TM, Hayashi A, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. Repair of motor nerve gaps with sensory nerve inhibits regeneration in rats. Laryngoscope. 2006;116:1-8.
Fox IK, Jaramillo A, Hunter DA, Rickman SA, Mohanakumar T, Mackinnon SE. Prolonged cold preservation of nerve allografts yields a non-immunogenic graft. Muscle and Nerve. 2005;31:59-69.
Kawamura DH, Hadlock TA, Fox IK, Brenner MJ, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. Regeneration through nerve isografts is independent of nerve geometry. Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. 2005;21(4):243-249.
Sen SK, Lowe JB, Brenner MJ, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. Assessment of the immune response to dose of nerve allografts. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 2005;115(3):823-830.
Jensen JN, Brenner MJ, Tung TH, Hunter DA, Mackinnon SE. FK506 accelerated peripheral nerve regeneration through long grafts in inbred swine. Annals of Plastic Surgery. 2005;54(4):420-427.
Pub Med page for Susan E. Mackinnon, M.D. | Selected or Recent Chapters
Articles are selected from more than 125 publications authored by Dr. Mackinnon.
Mackinnon SE, Patterson GA, Colbert SH. Supraclavicular approach to first rib resection for thoracic outlet syndrome. In: Cohn LH (ed.). Operative Techniques in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: A Comparative Atlas. 10(4), 318-328, WB Saunders. 2006.
Weber RV, Mackinnon SE. Bridging the Neural Gap. In: McKee N (ed.). Clinics in Plastic Surgery 32:4, 605-616, 2005.
Weber RV, Mackinnon SE. Management of nerve injuries following a soft tissue and boney trauma. In: WP Cooney III MD (ed.). Williams & Wilkins’ Master Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery Series. Lippincott; 2005.
Myckatyn TM, Mackinnon SE. Submuscular ulnar nerve transposition. Neurosurgery Operative Atlas. 5th ed. 2005.
Myckatyn TM, Mackinnon SE. Microsurgical repair of peripheral nerves and nerve grafts. Grabb and Smith’s Plastic Surgery. 6th ed. 2005.
Mackinnon SE, Novak CB. Compressive Neuropathies. In: Green DP, Hotchkiss RN, Pederson WC, Wolfe SW. (eds.). Operative Hand Surgery. 5th Edition. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 2004.
Myckatyn TM, Mackinnon SE. A review of facial nerve anatomy. Seminars in Plastic Surgery. 18:5-11, 2004.
Rovak JM, Tung TH, Mackinnon SE. The Surgical Management of Facial Nerve Injury. Seminars in Plastic Surgery. 2004.
Tung TH, Mackinnon SE: Limb allotransplantation – Experimental. In: Weinzweig N and Weinzweig J (ed.). The Mutilated Hand. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, Inc.; 2004.
Myckatyn TM, Mackinnon SE. Surgical Techniques of Nerve Grafting (Standard/Vascularized/Allograft) In: Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics. Philadephia: Elsevier Inc.; 2004.
Vernadakis AJ, Mackinnon SE: Nerve Injuries. In: Cameron John L. (ed.). Current Surgical Therapy. 8th Edition. Philadelphia: Elsevier Mosby; 2004;1066-1071. | Academic Office
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