Dr. Kerri Woodberry: Leveling Up Treating Patients as Family
Release Date: 04/24/2023
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info_outlineIn this “Leveling Up” Episode of the Award-Winning PRS Global Open Deep Cuts Podcast, Dr. Kerri Woodberry discusses the importance of treating the patient like family and learning enough about them to understand when not to operate, her approach to panniculectomy and breast reduction, her perfectionism, her favorite instruments, how an MBA has helped her in her practice, and the ups and downs of running a relatively new residency program.
Read a recent PRS Global Open viewpoint by Dr. Woodberry and co-authors Joshua T. Henderson MD and Zachary A. Koenig BS, “Standardized Reporting of Weight Control following Body Contouring:” https://bit.ly/GOXDC_Woodberry
Kerri Woodberry, MD, MBA is Program Director, Associate Professor, and Chief of the Division of Plastic Surgery at West Virginia University School of Medicine. She trained at Union Memorial in Baltimore for general surgery, the Ohio State University for plastic surgery, and the University of Pennsylvania for a hand surgery fellowship. After a stint at Saint Louis University, she went into private practice in Tennessee, and also obtained an Executive MBA from Vanderbilt University. In 2019 she took a position as the Chief of Plastic Surgery at West Virginia University, to take charge of the new residency program there. She has served on many local and national committees in Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, including Co-Chair of Diversity for ACAPS. She is a 2023 Plastic Surgery Foundation Visiting Professor.
Your host, Dr. Puru Nagarkar, is a board-certified plastic and hand surgeon, and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
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