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Daniel Borsuk

Chirurgie plastique, reconstruction faciale et mammaire, et chirurgie esthétique

Professeur agrégé de clinique

Faculté de médecine - Département de chirurgie

daniel.borsuk@umontreal.ca

Media

How 3d modelling enabled rebuilding of patient's face

Dr. Daniel Borsuk explains Tuesday, November 10, 2015 how 3D printing helped the operation to rebuild, patient Alex's, mouth and cheekbone from a section of the patient hip bone after a facial trauma. (Phil Carpenter / MONTREAL GAZETTE)

First Canadian Face Transplant

How Montreal surgeons took apart and pieced back together the skull of a young hydrocephalus patient

1ère greffe du visage au Canada : portrait du Dr Borsuk

Le médecin qui a réalisé la première greffe complète de visage au Canada, Daniel Borsuk, a un parcours exceptionnel, à 40 ans seulement. Qu’a-t-il appris de son expérience avec Maurice Desjardins, son patient? Danny Lemieux l’a rencontré.

Prime Minister Trudeau: Félicitations à Dr Daniel Borsuk et son équipe pour la greffe de visage

Man risks his life to undergo Canada's first face transplant

Profile

Biography

Dr. Borsuk est un professeur agrégé en chirurgie pour la chirurgie cranio-maxillo-faciale pédiatrique et adulte ainsi qu'en chirurgie plastique dans les hôpitaux du centre de formation de l'Université de Montréal au Sainte-Justine et à l'hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont.

Dr Borsuk a obtenu ses diplômes B.Sc., MBA et M.D. à l’Université McGill avant de suivre sa formation en chirurgie plastique et reconstructive à l’Université de Montréal. Par la suite, il a complété sa sous-spécialité en chirurgie cranio-maxillo-faciale et sa microchirurgie adulte et pédiatrique à l’Université Johns Hopkins et au R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center à Baltimore, au Maryland.

Awards and recognitions

2020                            President’s Medal, Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons

2019                            Dr. Mark Wainberg z”l Medical Pioneer Award, Maimonedes Medical Association

2019                            Officer, National Order of Quebec

2019                            Scientific Personality of the Year, Journal La Presse

2019                            Surgery Innovator Medal, University of Montreal, Department of Surgery

2018                            TeleQuebec, “Mammouth” Personality of the year

2013                             Shock Trauma Hero Award, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

2013                             “Best Normal Case” Award, Total Face, Double Jaw and Tongue Transplantation. World Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Chicago, IL

2012                             Senate Resolution 677, Senate of Maryland, awarded for leading the multidisciplinary team of surgeons completing the most extensive full-face                                                        transplant to date on March 20, 2012

2012                             Best Clinical Paper Award, Total Face, Double Jaw and Tongue Transplantation: An Evolutionary Concept. American Society of Reconstructive Surgery, 

2012                             House Resolution 437, Maryland House of Delegates, awarded for leading the multidisciplinary team of surgeons completing the most extensive full-face                                       transplant to date on March 20, 2012

2011                            Dr. A. Ross Tilley Scholarship for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons, Vancouver, B.C.

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Affiliations and responsabilities

Research affiliations

Affiliated institutions

  • Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine (CHU Sainte-Justine)
  • CIUSSS de l'Est-de-l'Île-de-Montréal – Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont (HMR)

Teaching and supervision

Student supervision

Theses and dissertation supervision (Papyrus Institutional Repository)

Projects

Outreach

Publications and presentations

Publications

2020                            Lymphocytic Vasculitis Associated with Mild Rejection in a Vascularized Composite Allograft Recipient: A Clinicopathological Study.

Roy SF, Krishnan V, Trinh VQ, Collette S, Dufresne SF, Borsuk DE, Désy D.

Transplantation. 2020 Mar 30. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000003241.

2020                            The Use of Virtual Surgical Planning for Reduction Cranioplasty.

Saleh E, Govshievich A, Justino J, Weil AG, Borsuk DE.

Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2020 Jan 20;8(1):e2565. doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000002565. eCollection 2020 Jan.

2020                            DaxibotulinumtoxinA for Injection for the Treatment of Glabellar Lines: Results from Each of Two Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase 3 Studies (SAKURA 1 and SAKURA 2).Carruthers JD, Fagien S, Joseph JH, Humphrey SD, Biesman BS, Gallagher CJ, Liu Y, Rubio RG, Cohen JL, Ho S, Cox SE, Soderberg J, Swift A, Borsuk D, Papanastasiou V, Shamban A, Simzar S, Bertucci V, et al... SAKURA 1 and SAKURA 2 Investigator Group; SAKURA 1 and SAKURA 2 Investigator Group includes the following.

Plast Reconstr Surg. 2020 Jan;145(1):45-58. PMID: 31609882

2018                            Breast Implant-Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma: Immediate or Delayed Implant Replacement?

Shine JJ, Boghossian E, Beauchemin G, Papanastasiou VW, Borsuk DE.

Aesthetic Plast Surg. 2018 Dec;42(6):1492-1498

2018                            Publication Rates and Author Characteristics From 3 Plastic Surgery Journals in 2006 and 2016.

Efanov JI, Shine J, Ghazawi N, Ricard MA, Borsuk DE.

Ann Plast Surg. 2018 Aug;81(2):128-136

2018                            Virtual Surgical Planning: The Pearls and Pitfalls. Efanov JI, Roy AA, Huang KN, Borsuk DE.

Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2018 Jan 17;6(1):e1443

 eCollection 2018 Jan. PMID: 29464146

2017                            Zygomatico-maxillary Reconstruction with Computer-aided Manufacturing of a Free DCIA Osseous Flap and Intraoral Anastomoses.

Roy AA, Efanov JI, Mercier-Couture G, Chollet A, Borsuk DE.

Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2017 Feb 3;5(2):e1226.

PMID: 28280668

2017                            Avoiding Facial Incisions with Midface Free Tissue Transfer.

Stalder MW, Sosin M, Urbinelli LJ, Mayo JL, Dorafshar AH, Hilaire HS, Borsuk DE, Rodriguez ED.

Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2017 Feb 22;5(2):e1218

PMID: 28280662

2015                            Reply: "Composite Orbital Reconstruction Using the Vascularized Segmentalized Osteo-Fascio-Cutaneous Fibula Flap"

Borsuk DE
Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery

JPRAS -D-15-00631

2015                            Antibiotics and facial fractures: evidence-based recommendations compared with experience-based practice.

Mundinger GS, Borsuk DE, Okhah Z, Christy MR, Bojovic B, Dorafshar AH, Rodriguez ED.

Craniomaxillofac Trauma Reconstr. 2015 Mar;8(1):64-78. doi: 10.1055/s-0034-1378187. Epub 2014 Sep 17.

PMID: 25709755

2014                            Aesthetic and functional facial transplantation: a classification system and treatment algorithm.

Mohan R, Borsuk DE, Dorafshar AH, Wang HD, Bojovic B, Christy MR, Rodriguez ED.

Plast Reconstr Surg. 2014 Feb;133(2):386-97

PMID: 24469171

2014                            A novel application of computer-aided design and manufacturing for reduction cranioplasty.

Dorafshar A, Fisher M, Borsuk D, Fishman E, Ahn E.

J Craniofac Surg. 2014 Jan;25(1):172-6

PMID: 24406573

2013                            Congenital anomalies of the breast.

Caouette-Laberge L, Borsuk D.

Semin Plast Surg. 2013 Feb;27(1):36-41

PMID: 24872738

2013                            The role of computer-assisted design and modeling in an edentulous mandibular malunion reconstruction.

Broyles JM, Wallner C, Borsuk DE, Dorafshar AH.

J Craniofac Surg. 2013 Sep;24(5):1835-8

PMID: 24036792

2013                            Computer-aided design and manufacturing in craniosynostosis surgery.

Seruya M, Borsuk DE, Khalifian S, Carson BS, Dalesio NM, Dorafshar AH.

J Craniofac Surg. 2013 Jul;24(4):1100-5. doi: 10.1097/SCS.0b013e31828b7021.

PMID: 23851748

2013                            Outcomes in cranioplasty - risk factors and choice of reconstructive material

Sashank Reddy, MD, PhD, Saami Khalifian, BA, Jose Flores, MPH, Justin Bellamy, BA, Daniel Borsuk, MD, Paul N. Manson, MD, FACS, Eduardo Rodriguez, MD, DDS, DNB, Amir Dorafshar, MB, BCh

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volume 217, Issue 3, Supplement, Page S87, September 2013

2013                            Revisiting the Anatomic Relationship of the Marginal Mandibular Nerve and the Posterior Facial Vein: A Cadaveric Study.

Mohan R, Brown EN, Borsuk DE, Christy MR, Bojovic B, Rodriguez ED, Dorafshar AH.

Ann Plast Surg. 2013 Jun 12. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID:23759967

2013                            Surface Anatomy of the Middle Division of the Facial Nerve: Zuker's Point.

Dorafshar AH, Borsuk DE, Bojovic B, Brown EN, Manktelow RT, Zuker RM, Rodriguez ED, Redett RJ.

Plast Reconstr Surg. 2013 Feb;131(2):253-7

PMID: 23357986

2012                            Total Face, Double Jaw, and Tongue Transplantation: An Evolutionary Concept.

Dorafshar AH, Bojovic B, Christy MR, Borsuk DE, Iliff NT, Brown EN, Shaffer CK, Kelley TN, Kukuruga DL, Barth RN, Bartlett ST, Rodriguez ED.

Plast Reconstr Surg. 2012 Oct 16. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 23076416

2012                            Aesthetic Microvascular Periorbital Subunit Reconstruction: Beyond Primary Repair.

Borsuk DE, Christensen J, Dorafshar AH, Bojovic B, Sauerborn PJ, Christy MR, Rodriguez ED.

Plast Reconstr Surg. 2012 Oct 16. [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 23076415

2012                            Total Face, Double Jaw, and Tongue Transplant Research Procurement: An Educational Model.  

Bojovic B, Dorafshar AH, Brown EN, Christy MR, Borsuk DE, Hui-Chou HG, Shaffer CK, Kelley TN, Sauerborn PJ, Kennedy K, Hyder M, Brazio PS, Philosophe B, Barth RN, Scalea TM, Bartlett ST, Rodriguez ED.

Plast Reconstr Surg. 2012 Jun 8. [Epub ahead of print]

2012                            Total Face, Double Jaw, and Tongue Transplant Simulation: A Cadaveric Study Employing Computer-Assisted Techniques.

Brown EN, Dorafshar AH, Bojovic B, Christy MR, Borsuk DE, Kelley TN, Shaffer CK, Rodriguez ED.

Plast Reconstr Surg. 2012 Jun 8. [Epub ahead of print]

2011                            Subperiosteal release of the floor of the mouth to correct airway obstruction in pierre robin sequence: review of 31 cases.

Caouette-Laberge L, Borsuk DE, Bortoluzzi PA.

Cleft Palate Craniofac J. 2012 Jan;49(1):14-20. Epub 2011 Jul 8.

2009                            Dental manifestations of dermatologic conditions.

Freiman A, Borsuk DE, Barankin B, Sperber GH, Krafchik B.

J Am Acad Dermatol. 2009 Feb;60(2):289-98

2008                            A missed scaphoid fracture on a CT-scan with associated trapezium fracture and dorsal dislocation of the scapho-trapezo-trapezoid joint

                                    Hugo St-Amand, Daniel E. Borsuk, Jean-Paul Brutus

J Hand Surg Eur Vol. 2008 Dec;33(6):815-6

2007                            Silver-coated nylon dressings for pediatric burn victims

DE Borsuk, M Gallant, D Richard, HB Williams

Canadian Journal of Plastic Surgery

Spring 2007, CJPS, Volume 15 Issue 1: 29-31

2006                            Replantation surgery in Quebec: The bottlenecks to rapid care

                                    DE Borsuk, T Zadeh, C Lee, K Moore, G Tan

Canadian Journal of Plastic Surgery

Autumn 2006, Volume 14 Issue 3: 155-157

2005                            Dermatological Emergencies

                                    Anatoli Freiman, Daniel Borsuk, Denis Sasseville

Canadian Medical Association Journal                        

November 22, 2005 173(11)

Disciplines

  • General Surgery
  • Plastic Surgery
  • Pediatric Surgery

Areas of expertise

  • Transplantation and Graft Rejection