Dr. Galiano in the Media
Dr Galiano was a guest on Perspective (My50 Chicago) and discussed Breast Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Segment 1
Regarded as one of the top plastic surgeons in Chicago, assistant professor of surgery at Northwestern, Dr. Robert D. Galiano gave an hour-long lecture in the Dorothy Menker Theater on the evening of February 8.
In front of a crowd of over 100 people, Galiano shared information about scarring and gave new insights of the breakthroughs in the field of plastic surgery.
The first face transplant in Spain shocked the world in 2010, advancing facial reconstruction techniques that hadn’t changed in more than 15 years. Now, Northwestern , University of Texas at Arlington and U.S. Army researchers are giving the field a new face with an invention called the Biomask.
The Biomask, which is currently undergoing testing at the microscopic level, would work by allowing a doctor to essentially build a face out of individual cells. A doctor would take a 3-dimensional mold of a burn victim’s face and determine with a computer which parts of the face need to be thicker or thinner.
Moraine Valley Community College will host a Medical Education Series presentation on “Scars and Plastic Surgery: What is New?” from 7 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8, in the college’s Dorothy Menker Theater in the Fine and Performing Arts Center, 9000 W. College Pkwy., Palos Hills. The event is co-sponsored by Northwestern Memorial Hospital and is free and open to the public.
Plastic surgery might just be the most controversial field in the health care industry. Tabloid pages are plastered with pictures of past vixens who have undergone certain enhancement procedures. Some gossip websites have made it their sole purpose to show botched jobs.
But is this really the light that should be shone onto this profession? Even the most narcissistic person has at least one cosmetic item on his or her wish list, so why condemn those who go for it? Furthermore, should plastic surgery be backed into this one corner? There’s more to it than just looking pretty.
