​Susan E. Mackinnon – Personal profile and master videos

Susan E. Mackinnon – Personal profile and master videos

Dr. Mackinnon graduated from medical school at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, in 1975. She trained in general surgery at the same institution and completed her plastic surgery training at the University of Toronto. She then completed a year of peripheral nerve research at the University of Toronto in the Division of Neurosurgery and a hand surgery fellowship in Baltimore at the Raymond Curtis Hand Center. Dr. Mackinnon joined the surgical staff at the University of Toronto in 1982. In 1988 she was awarded the Medal Prize in Surgery from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons for her work on nerve regeneration.

In 1991 Dr. Mackinnon joined the Department of Surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine. Her research work in St. Louis has been funded through the National Institute of Health since 1993 and has investigated nerve allotransplantation and nerve regeneration. This work has resulted in new strategies of nerve transfers to reconstruct nerve injuries. She has been Chief of Plastic Surgery since 1996.

She has published a classic textbook, Surgery of the Peripheral Nerve, 505 peer reviewed publications, 173 book chapters and the new comprehensive text Nerve Surgery. Her open access website provides surgical videos with all the “secret ingredients” and are used globally to improve the care of nerve injured patients. Dr. Mackinnon is Past President of the American Society for Peripheral Nerve, American Association of Hand Surgery, American Association of Plastic Surgery, and Plastic Surgery Research Council and is a member of the National Academies of Medicine. She is the recipient of the Jacobson Innovation Award from the American College of Surgeons in 2013 for her pioneering work on nerve transfers.

Dr. Mackinnon married Dr. Alec Patterson in 1972 and has four talented children. Lachlan, a James Beard award winning Chef, Megan, an Orthopaedic hand surgeon, Brendan is an Orthopaedic resident and Caitlan, a hospital administrator. She has ten adorable grandchildren.

http://dbbs.wustl.edu/faculty/Pages/faculty_bio.aspx?SID=4450

https://www.uoftplasticsurgery.ca/about/division/hall-of-fame/susan-mackinnon

Master videos
Nerve surgery
Radial Nerve Release at the Spiral Groove 

Revision Carpal Tunnel Release in a Case of Persistent Symptoms and Incomplete Release

Posterior Interosseous Nerve Release 

Carpal Tunnel Release

Median Nerve Release in the Forearm

Transmuscular Ulnar Nerve Transposition in a Case of Traumatic Medial Cord Injury

Revision Carpal Tunnel Release in a Case of Proximal Median Nerve Hematoma Injury and Mild Compression

Tarsal Tunnel Release 

Superficial Peroneal Nerve Release in the Lower Leg

Common Peroneal Nerve Release at the Fibular Head 

Thoracic Outlet Decompression

Tibial Nerve Decompression at the Soleus

Median Nerve Forearm Decompression 

Carpal Tunnel Release

Guyon’s Canal Release and Carpal Tunnel Release

Submuscular Ulnar Nerve Transposition

Brachialis to Anterior Interosseous Nerve Transfer with Extended Forearm Incision

Median {FCS/FDS) to Radial (PIN/ECRB) Nerve Transfers

Posterior Approach – Spinal Accessory to Suprascapular Nerve Transfer

Anterior Interosseous to Ulnar Motor Nerve Transfer

Third Webspace to Sensory Component of Ulnar Nerve Transfer and PCM to DCU Nerve Transfer 

Anterior Interosseous to Ulnar Motor Supercharge Nerve Transfer 

Pectoral Fascicle of the Middle Trunk to Spinal Accessory Nerve Transfer 

Median (FCR/FDS) to Radial (PIN/ECRB) Nerve Transfer with Pronator Teres to ECRB Tendon Transfer

Medial Triceps Branch to Axillary Nerve Transfer

Flexor Digitorum Superficialis to Anterior Interosseous Nerve Transfer

RETS AIN to Ulnar Motor Nerve Transfer 

Thoracodorsal to Long Thoracic Nerve Transfer

Double Fascicular Nerve Transfer

Median to Radial Nerve Tendon Transfers: PT to ECRB, FCR to EDC, PL to EPL

Flexor Digitorum Profundus Tenodesis (Median FDP to Ulnar FDP)

Superficial Peroneal and Sural Neuroma Transposition

Ulnar Index of Median to Medial Ring of Ulnar Sensory Nerve Transfer and Prevention of Proximal Neuroma

Medial Antebrachial Cutaneous Nerve Graft Harvest

Ganglion Cyst Removal in the Common Peroneal Nerve at the Fibular Head

End-to-End Epineurial Nerve Repair in a Rat Model 

2014 ASSH: Median to Radial Nerve Transfers

2014 FRS: Jumping the Nerve Gap 

2014 CRN: Nerve Transfers for the Hand

2014 CRN: Brachial Plexus Lesions

2014 CRN: Peripheral Nerve Surgery

2014 CRN: Nerve Transfers for the Shoulder and Elbow

2013 PRS: Nerve Entrapment – CME Update

2012 CRN: Brachial Plexus Lesions – Presentation

2012 CRN: Supercharge Nerve Transfers and Nerve Transfers in the Hand

2012 CRN: Peripheral Nerve Surgery

2012 VuMedi: Transmuscular Ulnar Nerve Transposition

Utility of Scratch Collapse Test in a Case of Failed Carpal Tunnel Release

Hierarchical Scratch Collapse Test

Localizing a Secondary Compression Point wi