This special series on “Aesthetic Breast Reconstruction” is edited by Dr. Sarah N. Bishop, from the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA.

Sarah N. Bishop, MD, FACS
Department of Plastic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA; Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery, Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Dr. Sarah Bishop is a highly trained plastic surgeon working within the Departments of Plastic Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Main Campus. She completed her medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine in 2010 and then her general surgery residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2016. Prior to focusing her life in medicine she obtained a Master's in Music with a focus in Cello Performance. Dr. Bishop completed two surgical fellowships her first in plastic surgery at Mayo Clinic in 2019, and her second in microsurgery at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2020.

Dr. Bishop specializes in microsurgery, supermicrosurgery, complex reconstructive surgeries and robotic plastic surgery. She is part of the American Society of Plastic Surgery (ASPS) Robotic Steering Committee and Task Force. She has co-directed the Cleveland Clinic Robotic Plastic Surgery Conference. She is involved at an international level in advancing robotic surgery and minimally invasive breast reconstructive techniques to the plastic surgery world. She also companions with surgical oncologist and hernia colleagues at Cleveland Clinic to offer the most complex abdominal wall reconstructions to patients with the most difficult abdominal wall issues.

Dr. Bishop has numerous published works including peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters and has been invited to lecture on both the national and international level. She is a mother and wife and still works to find time to play cello when she can!

Series outline:

1. The Power of the Wise Pattern in Breast Reconstruction: Enable Removal of Skin Paddle, Optimize Shape and Address the Ptotic Breast
2. Maximize the Donor Site Aesthetics in Robotic DIEP Flap Reconstruction
3. Reconstruction after DIEP Flap Failure
4. Comparing Autologous Breast Reconstruction in High vs Low BMI Patients
5. Concomitant Umbilical Hernia Repair During DIEP Flap Harvest
6. NAC Reconstruction and 3D NAC Tattooing Techniques
7. How to Save the NAC in the Ptotic Breast
8. Fat Grafting to Reverse Radiation Damage
9. How to Approach the DIEP Flap Revision for Optimal Aesthetics
10. The Hybrid Implant-Flap Reconstruction
11. Optimizing Aesthetics in Immediate Robotic Mastectomy Reconstruction
12. Comparison of Autologous Donor Site Aesthetics
13. Autologous Reconstruction with Serial Fat Grafting
14. Optimizing Aesthetics: Comparing Direct-to-Implant vs Staged Implant Approach
15. Optimizing Oncoplastic Reconstruction

Disclosure:
The special series “Aesthetic Breast Reconstruction” was commissioned by the editorial office, Gland Surgery without any sponsorship or funding. Sarah N. Bishop is serving as the unpaid Guest Editor for the special series.