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Eric G. Halvorson, MD

Assistant Professor; Director,Microsurgery

Curriculum Vitae

Department of Surgery
    Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Surgery of the Hand

Services:
Cancer Services, Multidisciplinary Clinical Services, Melanoma Program, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Procedures/Research:
Microsurgery, breast reconstruction, perforator flaps, DIEP and muscle-sparing TRAM flaps, SGAP flap; head and neck reconstruction, cancer reconstruction, burn reconstruction; trauma and lower extremity reconstruction, clinical outcomes research.
 
Clinical Appointment Phone:  919-966-6461
Assistant Name:  Natalle Hatfield
Assistant Phone:  919-966-7729
Assistant Email:  natalle_hatfield@med.unc.edu

Website: http://www.med.unc.edu/plastic/faculty
Eric G Halvorson, MD

Certifications
Plastic Surgery - Board Certified  (2007)
American Board of Surgery - Board Certified  (2004)
North Carolina Medical License - Board Certified  (2006)

Education and Training
Medical School: MD, Duke University, Durham NC, 1998
Residency: Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital, Providence RI, 1998 - 2003
Area: Surgery
  Lahey Clinic, Burlington MA, 2003 - 2005
Area: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Fellowship: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York NY, 2005 - 2006
Area: Microsurgery and Breast Reconstruction

Foreign Languages Spoken
French

Professional Positions
  1. Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2006-present

  2. Director of Microsurgery, Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery and Surgery of the Hand, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 2007-present

Honors
  1. Associate Fellow, UNC Academy of Educators, 2010

  2. Outstanding Professor Award, UNC Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, 2008

  3. Outstanding Chief Resident Award, Brown University Department of Surgery, 2003

  4. Dean's Teaching Excellence Award, Brown University School of Medicine, 2002

  5. Humanitarian Award, Brown University Department of Surgery, 2001

  6. Senior Scholarship, Duke University School of Medicine, 1998

  7. Pomeroy Scholarship for Alumni in Health Sciences, Bates College, 1998

  8. Dean's List, Duke University School of Medicine, 1997

  9. Beta Beta Beta, Upsala College, 1993

  10. Cum Laude Honors in Religion, Bates College, 1992

  11. Phi Beta Kappa, Bates College, 1992

Presentations
  1. The Role of Preoperative Chemotherapy in the Treatment of Infantile Fibrosarcoma
    Authors: Kurkchubasche A, Halvorson EG, Forman EN, Terek RM and Ferguson WS
    Annual Meeting of the Section on Surgery of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Washington, DC, 1999

  2. Open vs Laparoscopic Herniorrhaphy
    Authors: Halvorson EG
    Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital Department of Surgery Grand Rounds, 2003

  3. Optimal Parameters for Marking Upper Blepharoplasty Incisions: A 10-year Experience
    Authors: Halvorson EG, Pandya SN, Husni NR, and Seckel BR
    Lahey Clinic Post-Graduation Recognition Day, 2005

  4. Patency of the Descending Branch of the Lateral Circumflex Femoral Artery in Patients with Vascular Disease
    Authors: Halvorson EG, Taylor HOB, and Orgill DP
    Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital Department of Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds, 2005

  5. Optimal Parameters for Marking Upper Blepharoplasty Incisions: A 10-year Experience
    Authors: Halvorson EG, Pandya SN, Husni NR and Seckel BR
    Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons, Washington DC, 2005

  6. Cheever's "Double Operation": The First Le Fort I Osteotomy
    Authors: Halvorson EG and Mulliken JB
    Annual Meeting of the New England Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, Mystic , 2005

  7. The EHL Flap Revisited: Case Report & Literature Review
    Authors: Halvorson EG, Vernadakis AJ, Weinzweig J
    Annual Meetin of the New England Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, Mystic, 2005

  8. Adult Nasal Dermoid Cyst: Case Report & Literature Review
    Authors: Halvorson EG, Vernadakis AJ
    Lahey Clinic Post-Graduation Recognition Day, NY, 2005

  9. Cheever's "Double Operation": The First Le Fort I Osteotomy
    Authors: Halvorson EG and Mulliken JB
    Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Grand Rounds, 2005

  10. Cheever's "Double Operation": The First Le Fort I Osteotomy
    Authors: Halvorson EG and Mulliken JB
    Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital Department of Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds, 2005

  11. End-to-Side Anastomosis to the Internal Jugular Vein: A 10-year Experience
    Authors: Halvorson EG, and Cordeiro PG
    Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons, Boston, MA, 2006

  12. The Versatile ALT Flap
    Authors: Halvorson EG
    University of North Carolina Division of Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds, Chapel Hill, NC, 2006

  13. Patency of the Descending Branch of the Lateral Circumflex Femoral Artery in Patients with Vascular Disease
    Authors: Halvorson EG
    Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, Tucson AZ, 2006

  14. Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers and Skin/Soft Tissue Reconstruction
    Authors: Halvorson EG
    University of North Carolina Department of Surgery Medical Student Lecture Series, Chapel Hill, NC, 2007

  15. End-to-Side Anastomosis to the Internal Jugular Vein: A 10-year Experience
    Authors: Halvorson EG, and Cordeiro PG
    Annual Meeting of the American Head & Neck Society, San Diego,, 2007

  16. CPT Coding in Reconstructive Plastic Surgery
    Authors: Halvorson EG
    • Presented at The 2nd Annual NC AAPC Coding Conference, Raleigh, NC, 2007

  17. Outcome Following Removal of Infected Tissue Expanders in Breast Reconstruction: A 10-year Experience
    Authors: Halvorson EG, Disa JJ, Mehrara BJ, Burkey BA, Pusic AL, and Cordeiro PG
    Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Baltimore, MD, 2007

  18. Wound Healing/Non-Healing Wounds
    Authors: Halvorson EG
    University of North Carolina Department of Surgery Medical Student Lecture Series, Chapel Hill, NC, 2007

  19. Breast Reconstruction
    Authors: Halvorson EG
    University of North Carolina Department of Surgery Medical Student Lecture Series, Chapel Hill, NC, 2007

  20. Surgical Flaps
    Authors: Halvorson EG
    University of North Carolina Department of Surgery Medical Student Lecture Series, Chapel Hill, NC, 2007

  21. Cheever's "Double Operation": The First Le Fort I Osteotomy
    Authors: Halvorson EG, Mulliken JB
    University of North Carolina Division of Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds, Chapel Hill, NC, 2007

  22. Perforator Flaps and Microsurgery
    Authors: Halvorson EG
    University of North Carolina Department of Surgery Grand Rounds, Chapel Hill, NC, 2007

  23. Superficial Temporal Vessels as First Choice Recipients in Microvascular Orbit and Scalp Reconstruction
    Authors: Halvorson EG, Wallin E, Disa JJ, Cordeiro PG, and Mehrara BJ
    Annual Meeting of the American Head & Neck Society, San Diego, 2007

  24. End-to-Side Anastomosis to the Internal Jugular Vein: A 10-year Experience
    Authors: Halvorson EG, and Cordeiro PG
    Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, Los Angeles, CA, 2008

  25. A Brief History of Microsurgery: from Carrel to Buncke, from Head to Toe, from Lyons to Chapel Hill
    Authors: Halvorson EG
    University of North Carolina Department of Surgery Grand Rounds, Chapel Hill, NC, 2008

Publications
  1. The Role of Preoperative Chemotherapy in the Treatment of Infantile Fibrosarcoma
    Authors: Kurkchubasche A, Halvorson EG, Forman EN, Terek RM, and Ferguson WS
    J Pediatr Surg 35: 880-3, 2000

  2. Pulmonary Embolism: Which Pediatric Trauma Patients are at Risk?
    Authors: Truitt AK, Sorrells DL, Halvorson EG, Starring J, Kurkchubasche AG, Tracy TF, Jr, and Luks FI
    J Pediatr Surg 40: 124-7, 2005

  3. A Cut Above (Biography of David Williams Cheever)
    Authors: Halvorson EG
    Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin Winter: 46-51, 2006

  4. Surface Reconstruction Procedures
    Authors: Disa JJ, Halvorson EG, Shah HR, Kaplan G
    ACS Surgery: Principles and Practice. Souba WW, Fink MP, Jurkovich GJ et al., Eds. WebMD Inc., New York, 2006

  5. Open Wound Requiring Reconstruction
    Authors: Disa JJ, Halvorson EG, and Hidalgo DA
    ACS Surgery: Principles and Practice. Souba WW, Fink MP, Jurkovich GJ et al., Eds. WebMD Inc., New York, 2006

  6. Optimal Parameters for Marking Upper Blepharoplasty Incisions: A 10-year Experience
    Authors: Halvorson EG, Pandya SN, Husni NR ,and Seckel BR
    Ann Plast Surg 56:569-72, 2006

  7. Immediate Postoperative Complications in DIEP vs. Free/Muscle Sparing TRAM Flaps
    Authors: Chen C, Halvorson EG, Hu QY, Disa JJ, and Mehrara BJ
    Plast Reconstr Surg 120: 1477-82, 2007

  8. Outcome Following Removal of Infected Tissue Expanders in Breast Reconstruction: A 10-year Experience
    Authors: Halvorson EG, Disa JJ, Mehrara BJ, Burkey BA, Pusic AL, and Cordeiro PG
    Ann Plast Surg 59:131-6, 2007

  9. Go for the Jugular - A 10-year Experience with End-to-Side Anastomosis to the Internal Jugular Vein in 320 Head and Neck Free Flaps
    Authors: Halvorson EG and Cordeiro PG
    Ann Plast Surg 59: 31-5, 2007

  10. Wound Irrigation in the E.R. – A Simple, Effective Method
    Authors: Halvorson EG
    Plast Reconstr Surg 119: 2345-6, 2007

  11. Maxilla and Midface Reconstruction
    Authors: Halvorson, EG, and Cordeiro, PG
    Plastic Surgery. Guyuron, B, Persing, J, Eriksson, E, et al., Eds. Elsevier Publishers, Inc., London, 2008

  12. Cheever’s “Double Operation”: The First Le Fort I Osteotomy
    Authors: Halvorson EG and Mulliken JB
    Plast Reconstr Surg 121: 1375-81, 2008

  13. Thumb Reconstruction following Resection for Malignant Tumors
    Authors: Mehrara BJ, Abood AA, Disa JJ, Pusic AL, Halvorson EG, Cordeiro PG, and Athanasian EA
    Plast Reconstr Surg 121: 1279-87, 2008

  14. Patency of the Descending Branch of the Lateral Circumflex Femoral Artery in Patients with Vascular Disease
    Authors: Halvorson EG, Taylor HOB, and Orgill DP
    Plast Reconstr Surg 121: 121-9, 2008

  15. Reconstruction of the Posterior Trunk
    Authors: Halvorson EG and Disa JJ
    Plastic Surgery Secrets, 2nd Edition. Weinzweig J, Ed. Hanley & Belfus Inc., Philadelphia, 2008

Abstracts
  1. Outcome Following Removal of Infected Tissue Expanders in Breast Reconstruction: A 10-year Experience
    Authors: Halvorson EG, Disa JJ, Mehrara BJ, Burkey BA, Pusic AL, and Cordeiro PG
    Plast Reconstr Surg 120: 143-4, 2007


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