Marwan R. Khalifeh, MD
Navin K. Singh, MD

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Marwan R. Khalifeh, MD

Dr. Khalifeh is a Board-Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, and co-founder and senior partner at Ivy Plastic Surgery Associates, a private plastic surgery partnership dedicated to offering patients the latest and safest cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery techniques.

Dr. Marwan Khalifeh completed all of his surgical training (six years) at the top rated Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the American College of Graduate Medical Education accredited Plastic Surgery Program. After graduating, he was appointed Instructor in the department of plastic surgery at the Johns Hopkins University and spends two days each week instructing upcoming surgeons in the art of science of reconstructive and cosmetic plastic surgery. He is both a speaker and an author of several research papers and book chapters in the field of Plastic Surgery.

Dr. Khalifeh earned his medical doctorate degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where he earned numerous awards including the Top Spear award in human physiology and was elected by his graduating class to the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha honor medical society.

Dr. Khalifeh spent his undergraduate years in Philadelphia, where he attended the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School, earning a Bachelors of Arts in Biology and a Bacherlor of Science in Economics. He graduated Summa Cum Laude and earned the Phi Beta Kappa distinction.

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Navin K. Singh, MD

Dr. Singh is a Board-Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and co-founder and senior partner at Ivy Plastic Surgery Associates. He is also an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital where he directs the Cosmetic Surgery Educational Program and was the Residency Program Director in Plastic Surgery as well as Director of Breast Reconstruction. He is the recepient of the "Hero Award" from University of Maryland R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in 2001, as well as "Teacher of the Year" by the Johns Hopkins Plastic Surgery residents in 2002 and 2004. He is an Assistant Professor in Surgery (Plastic) and has honorary appointments as as Assistant Professor in Gynecology and in Neurosurgery because of his notable expertise and collaborative research in those fields.

Singh is an alum of Stuyvesant High School in New York City, of Brown University, graduating magna cum laude, in Philosophy and Mathematics, and the Brown Medical School where he received the Dean's Prize for the Outstanding Male Student of the Graduating Class. He concurrently obtained a M.Sc. in Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health, and thereafter trained in plastic surgery at the prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital between 1993-1999, becoming board-certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery in 2001. During his faculty tenure he also earned an MBA from The Carey Business School of Johns Hopkins University in 2005.

Publications and investigative tomes of Dr. Singh have contributed to the current knowledge base via several noted journals. They impact both aesthetic surgery as well as reconstructive microsurgery--including robotic surgery and breast reconstruction. His research has received awards such as the Naval Warfare & Mobility Supervisor’s Award in the Department of Defense, Pentagon (1989), the Marge Drolette Prize in Biostatistics at Harvard (1992), and the Best Resident Research Paper for the of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery (2005).

Dr. Singh has contributed chapters to 8 textbooks of surgery and plastic surgery, written over 20 medline-indexed papers and sits on the editorial board of The Aesthetic Surgery Journal and Microsurgery and has served as a reviewer for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Annals of Plastic Surgery. His media appearances include NPR, AP News wire, Maryland Public Television, and MSNBC.com. He has given over 40 national and international presentations and chaired sessions. Dr. Singh is on several committes in both American Society of Plastic Surgeons as well as the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. In 2005, he was listed in "America’s Top Physicians" by the Consumer Research Council of America.

He has been a visiting professor at multiple universities including Univ. of Massachussets in 2003, Texas Tech, Brooke Army Medical Center, and New York Medical College in 2004. An intrepid traveler and humanist, Dr. Singh participates annually and donates to philantrhopic surgical missions with groups such as Ecuadent, Interplast, Operation Smile, and Rotaplast. Navin Singh received a Certificate of Special Recognition for Community Service and Volunteerism from American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery in 2005.

Publications

• Heitmiller RF, Gruber PJ, Swier P, Singh N. Long-segment substernal jejunal esophageal replacement with internal mammary vascular augmentation. Diseases of the Esophagus. 2000;(13), 240-242.
  
• Nahabedian MY, Dooley W, Singh N, Manson P. Contour abnormalities of the abdomen after breast reconstruction with abdominal flaps: the role of muscle preservation. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Jan. 2002; Vol. 109 No. 1, 91-101.
  
• Tu AT, Girotto JA, Singh N, Dufresne CR, Robertson BC, Seyfer AE, Manson PN, Iliff N. Facial fractures from dog bite injuries. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Apr. 2002;Vol.109 No. 4, 1259-1265.
  
• Singh N, Robertson BC, Dellon A Lee. Use of an innervated tongue flap to rehabilitate the tongue after hypoglossal to facial nerve transfer. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Jun 2002; Vol. 109 No. 7, 2439-2442.
  
• Chevray PM, Singh NK. Abdominal wall reconstruction with the free tensor fascia lata myofasciocutaneous flap using intraperitoneal gastroepiploic recipient vessels. Annals of Plastic Surgery. July 2003;51(1):97-102.
  
• Girotto JA, Chiaramonte M, Menon G, Singh NK, Tufaro AP, Nahabedian M, Goldberg NH, Manson PN. Recalcitrant abdominal wall hernias: long-term superiority of autologous tissue repair. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2003 Jul;112(1):106-14.
  
• Silverman RP, Singh NK, Li, EN, Disa, JJ, Girotto JA, Slezak, S, Goldberg NH. Restoring abdominal wall integrity in contaminated tissue-deficient wounds using autologous fascia grafts. Plast and Reconstructive Surgery. 2004 Feb; 113(2): 673-5.
  
• Nahabedian MY, Singh NK, Deune EG, Silverman RP, Tufaro AP. Recipient vessel analysis for microvascular reconstruction of the head and neck. Annals of Plastic Surgery. 2004 Feb;52(2):148-55.
  
• Schreiber JE, Girotto JA, Mofid MM, Singh NK, Nahabedian MY. Comparison Study of Nipple-Areolar Sensation After Reduction Mammaplasty. Aesthetic Surgery Journal. July 2004 (Vol. 24, Issue 4, Pages 320-323).
  
• Holton, LH, Rodriguez, ED, Silverman, RP, Singh, NK, Tufaro,AP, Grant, MP. The Buccal Fat Pad for periorbital reconstruction: a cadaver dissection and report of two cases. Plast and Reconstructive Surgery,. 2004 Nov;114(6):1529-33.
  
• Luther H. Holton III, MD, Daniel Kim, BS, Ronald P. Silverman, MD, Eduardo D. Rodriguez, DDS, MD, Navin Singh, MD and Nelson H. Goldberg, MD. Human Acellular Dermal Matrix for Repair of Abdominal Wall Defects: Review of Clinical Experience and Experimental Data. Journal of Long-Term Effects of Medical Implants. Issue 5, Vol. 15, 2005, pp. 547-558.
  
• Rosson, GD, Holton, LH., Silverman, RP, Singh, NK, Nahabedian, MY. Internal Mammary Perforators: A Cadaver Study. Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 239-242. May 2005.
  
• Schreiber, JE, Singh, NK, Klatsky, SA. Beauty Lies in the "Eyebrow" of the Beholder: A Public Survey of Eyebrow Aesthetics, accepted for publication Aesthetic Surgery Journal, July 2005 Vol. 25, Issue 4, Pages 348-352.
  
• Katz, R, Rosson, G, Taylor, J, Singh, NK. Robotics in Microsurgery: Use of a Surgical Robot to Perform a Free Flap in a Pig. Microsurgery, pp.566-569, Sep 21, 2005.
  
• Rosson, GD, Singh, NK. Devascularizing Complications of Free Fibula Harvest: The Peronea Arteria Magna. Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery, 2005 Nov;21(8):533-8.
  
• Katz, R., Taylor, J., Rosson, G., Brown, R., Singh, NK. "Robotics in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: Use of a Telemanipulator Slave Robot to Perform Microvascular Anastomoses." Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. 2006 Jan;22(1):53-7.
  
• Schreiber, J, Singh, NK, Shermack, MA. The Effect of Liposuction and Diet on Ghrelin, Adiponectin, and Leptin Levels in Obese Zucker Rats. Plast and Reconstructive Surgery. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2006 May;117(6):1829-35.
  
• Mofid, MM, Klatsky, SA, Singh, NK, Nahabedian, MY. Nipple-Areola Complex Sensitivity After Primary Breast Augmentation: A Comparison of Peri-Areolar and Inframammary Incision Approaches. Plast and Reconstructive Surgery. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2006 May;117(6):1694-8.
  
• Taylor, JA, Katz, R, Singh, NK. A Novel Approach to Microvascular Anastomosis: Use of the U-Clip for Micro-arterial Repair. Microsurgery. 2006;26(8):550-1.
  
• Rodriguez ED, Rosson GD, Bluebond-Langner R, Bochicchio G, Grant MP, Singh NK, Silverman RP, Scalea TM. The utility of the anterolateral thigh donor site in reconstructing the United States trauma patient. J Trauma. 2007 Apr;62(4):892-7.
  
• Cornblatt BS, Ye L, Dinkova-Kostova AT, Erb M, Fahey JW, Singh NK, Chen MS, Stierer T, Garrett-Mayer E, Argani P, Davidson NE, Talalay P, Kensler TW, Visvanathan K. Preclinical and clinical evaluation of sulforaphane for chemoprevention in the breast. Carcinogenesis. 2007 Jul;28(7):1485-90. Epub 2007 Mar 7.
  
• Michael Alperovich; Jeffrey E. Schreiber, MD; and Navin K. Singh, MD. Infection after augmentation gluteoplasty in a pregnant patient. Aesthetic Surgery Journal, Volume 27, Issue 6, Pages 622-625 (November 2007)
  
• Rodriguez, Eduardo D. M.D., D.D.S.; Bluebond-Langner, Rachel M.D.; Park, Julie M.D.; You, Xiaojun B.S.; Rosson, Gedge M.D.; Singh, Navin M.D. Does Fascia Lata Repair Facilitate Closure and Does It Affect Compartment Pressures of the Anterolateral Thigh Flap Donor Site? Plast and Reconstructive Surgery 120(5):1300-1304, October 2007.
  
• Rosson GD, Williams CG, Fishman EK, Singh NK. 3D CT angiography of abdominal wall vascular perforators to plan DIEAP flaps. Microsurgery. 2007;27(8):641-6.
  
• Rodriguez ED, Martin M, Bluebond-Langner R, Khalifeh M, Singh N, Manson PN. Microsurgical reconstruction of posttraumatic high-energy maxillary defects: establishing the effectiveness of early reconstruction. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2007 Dec;120 (7 Suppl 2):103S-17S.
  
• Anna M. Voltura, M.D., Theodore N. Tsangaris, M.D.,Lisa K. Jacobs, M.D.,Gedge D. Rosson, M.D.,Jaime I. Flores, M.D., Navin K. Singh, M.D.,Pedram Argani, M.D., Charles M. Balch M.D. Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy: Critical Assessment of 51 Procedures and Implications for Selection Criteria., submitted Apr 2008.

Book Chapters

• Silverman, RP, Singh, NK, Goldberg, NH. Vaginal Reconstruction. In McCarthy, J.G., Galiano, R., Boutros, S.: Current Therapy in Plastic Surgery, W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, PA.
  
• Singh, NK, McQuillan, KA. Soft Tissue Injuries. In McQuillan, KA Von Rueden, K, Hartsock, Flynn, Whalen, (eds): Trauma Nursing: From Resuscitation Through Rehabilitation, 3rd Edition, Chap. 24. Philadelphia, WB Saunders, Co, 2000.
  
• Singh, NK, Manson, PN. The Management of Facial Injuries. In Cameron, J: Current Surgical Therapy, 7th Edition, Mosby, 2001.
  
• Schreiber, JE, Singh, NK. Plastic Surgery. In Micon, L: Surgery Review Illustrated, pp. 973-1007. McGraw-Hill, 2005.
  
• Singh, NK. The Management of Cold Injury. In Cameron, J: Current Surgical Therapy, 8th Edition, Mosby, 2003.
  
• Pape, S., Singh, NK, Manson, PN. Plastic Surgery. In Ali, Nadeem: Alarm Bells in Medicine, BMJ Books (UK), London, August 2005.
  
• Singh, NK. Ablative and Reconstructive Tumor Surgery of the Skull Base and Cranium. In Ehrenfeld, M, Manson, PN, Prein, J: AO Manual of Internal Fixation of the Craniomaxillofacial Skeleton, Vol. 2, Chap. 12, AO/ASIF Publications, Switzerland, 2005.
  
• Manahan, M, Singh, N. Breast Reconstruction. In Cameron, J: Current Surgical Therapy, 9th Edition, Mosby, 2007.
  
• Navin K. Singh and Gedge D. Rosson, “Breast Reconstruction” in The Johns Hopkins Breast Cancer Handbook for health care professionals, Lillie Shockney and Theodore Tsangaris, Chap 5, pp. 69-107, Jones and Bartlett Publishing.
  
• Singh, A., Singh, N. "Oncoplastic Breast Surgery and the Effects of Radiation Therapy", Saunders (of Elsevier), Editor Maurice Y. Nahabedian

Letters

• Singh N, Mehra A. Just stop or just complain. Plastic Reconstructive Surgery. 2003 Dec;112(7):1947
  
• Singh, N. What’s good for the goose…, Hopkins Medicine. Autumn 2004. p.2

On-Line Publications and Videos

• Singh, NK. Anesthesia Considerations for Breast Reconstruction. Artemis, on-line journal for breast cancer. http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/breastcenter/artemis/200401/index.html, accessed February 2004.
  
• Singh, NK. The Contralateral Breast. Artemis, on-line journal for breast cancer. http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/breastcenter/artemis/200401/index.html, accessed February 2004.
  
• Singh, NK. Surface Reconstruction. Johns Hopkins Dept. of Surgery Intranet Educational Website. Accessed http://halstedsurgery.net/, 10/8/04.

Invited Papers

• Singh, NK. Incorporating Digital Photography Into Your Aesthetic Surgery Practice. Aesthetic Society News. Vol. 8, No. 2, Spring 2004.
  
• Singh, NK. Pearls in Microsurgery. Reconstructive Microsurgery. Autumn/Winter 2004.
  
• Singh, NK. Innovative Microsurgery: Use of Stereolithography in Head and Neck Reconstruction. Reconstructive Microsurgery. Vol. 15, Number 2. Autumn/Winter 2004.
  
• Singh, NK. Invited Critique “Reconstructive Breast Implantation After Mastectomy for Breast Cancer: Clinical Outcomes in a Nationwide, Prospective Cohort Study.” Archives of Surgery. 2005
  
• Navin K. Singh, MD, MBA. Commentary. On Better Sex from the Knife? An Intimate Look at the Effects of Cosmetic Surgery on Sexual Practices. Pp.17-18. Aesthetic Surgery Journal. Vol. 26, No. 1. Jan/Feb 2006
  
• Rosson GD, Singh NK. Innovative microsurgery: Interesting scenarios in perforator flap breast reconstruction: the bullet proof flap, contralateral IMA, adding the SIEV, and 3D CT scans. Reconstructive Microsurgery. 2006; 17(1): 13-15.