PREPPED: Plastic Surgery Research, Education, and Preparation Promoting Equity and Diversity

Affiliations

¹ Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA.
² Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
³ Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
⁴ Department of Plastic Surgery, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA.

Meera Reghunathan et al. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2023.

. 2023 Jul 1;152(1):201e-203e.

doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000010278. Epub 2023 Jun 29.

¹ Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA.
² Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
³ Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
⁴ Department of Plastic Surgery, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA.

No abstract available

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