MICROSURGEON.ORG

atlas of microsurgery techniques and principles

About Us

When we decided to create this web site our goal was to provide educational material relevant to microsurgery and reconstructive plastic surgery.  We want it to present relevant scientific information to those interested in these topics, and possibly in some cases to stimulate more research into the areas we touch upon.  We are hopeful that you to find these pages informative and helpful.

Plastic surgery is a visual field, and to convey surgical procedures and concepts, graphics are essential. For this reason we rely on the hundreds of images here to help describe important microsurgical principles and procedures. If you click on most of the images, a large plate will pop up with a much larger image detailing the text graphically. We have limed these pop-up images to 750 pixels in size at the widest dimension to help preserve bandwidth, but for slow lines these are quite large. As a result, low bandwidth connections are not optimal for this graphic rich informational site.

Rudolf Buntic, MD

Rudy BunticDr. Rudy Buntic is a plastic, hand and microsurgeon.  A native of Canada, he obtained his A.B. from Harvard University and then his M.D. from McGill University.  Dr. Buntic did his post-graduate residency training in general and plastic surgery at Stanford University.  He did a fellowship in hand and microsurgery at Davies Medical Center in San Francisco.  Dr. Buntic is Board Certified in Plastic Surgery by the American Board of Plastic Surgery,  and is board certified in the Subspecialty of Surgery of the Hand by the American Board of Plastic Surgery.  Dr Buntic is an Associate Professor Affiliated in Plastic Surgery at Stanford and on the Clinical Faculty of the University of California. He is a member of several societies, including the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery.  Dr. Buntic has published scientific articles, book chapters and presented at national meetings related to a wide variety of plastic, hand and microsurgery topics.  He has a strong interest in microsurgical reconstruction of the breast and extremities, and his practice includes all aspects of plastic and reconstructive surgery. His practice is in San Francisco at the Buncke Clinic and Davies Campus of California Pacific Medical Center.  E-mail rbuntic@microsurgeon.org.

Gregory Buncke, MD

Gregory BunckeDr. Greg Buncke is a plastic, hand and microsurgeon.  He received his M.D. from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.  He completed his residency in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Stanford University and did a fellowship in Hand and Microsurgery at the Davies Medical Center in San Francisco, where he remains in practice.  Dr. Buncke is Board Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, and has a Certificate of Added Qualification in Surgery of the Hand. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of several societies, including the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, and the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Dr. Buncke has published numerous articles related to a wide variety of plastic, hand and microsurgery topics.  His practice is in San Francisco at the Davies Campus of California Pacific Medical Center.

Bauback Safa, MD

Bauback SafaDr. Bauback Safa is a plastic, hand and microsurgeon. He received his M.D. from the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California. He completed his residency in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Stanford University and did a fellowship in Hand and Microsurgery at the Davies Campus of California Pacific Medical Center. He graduated with a Bachelors of Science and Music from the University of Virginia. Dr. Safa is Board Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, and has a Certificate of Added Qualification in Surgery of the Hand.

Dr. Safa is an accomplished classical pianist and entrepreneur. His practice is in San Francisco at the Davies Campus of California Pacific Medical Center.

Andrew Watt, MD

Andrew WattDr. Andrew Watt is a plastic, hand and microsurgeon. He received his M.D. from the Indiana University School of Medicine. He completed his residency in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Stanford University Plastic Surgery Residency Program and did a fellowship in Hand and Microsurgery at the University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington. He graduated from Indiana University.

He has a strong interest in all aspects of microsurgical reconstruction. His practice is in San Francisco at the Davies Campus of California Pacific Medical Center.