Residency Program

Faculty

The primary faculty in Plastic Surgery at the University of Kansas Medical Center includes Teresa Buescher, MD, Charles Hendrix, MD, Dhaval Bhavsar, MD, and Satish Ponnuru, MD. The Department Chair and Program Director is Richard Korentager, MD. During the first three years of training, many of the resident rotations are directed by members of the KU faculty in Surgery, Anesthesia, and the surgical subspecialties. These rotations are coordinated in conjunction with Kurt Schropp, MD, the Program Director in Surgery. Rotations outside of KU during the latter three years of training are coordinated by Site Directors at the individual training sites

	Richard A. Korentager, MD Assistant Professor and Chairman, Plastic Surgery rkorentager@kumc.edu Curriculum Vitae
	Dhaval Bhavsar, MD Assistant Professor, Plastic Surgery dbhavsar@kumc.edu Curriculum Vitae
	Teresa M. Buescher, MD Assistant Professor, Plastic Surgery tbuescher@kumc.edu Curriculum Vitae
	Michelle M. M. De Souza, MD Assistant Professor, Plastic Surgery mdesouza@kumc.edu Curriculum Vitae
	Charles L. Hendrix, MD Instructor in Surgery chendrix@kumc.edu Curriculum Vitae
	Satish Ponnuru, MD Assistant Professor, Plastic Surgery sponnuru@kumc.edu Curriculum Vitae

Clinical Faculty

• Lynn Ketchum, MD
• John Hiebert, MD
• Daniel Bortnick, MD
• Phillip Gutek, MD
• John Carter, DDS
• Douglas Cusick, MD
• Keith Hodge, MD
• Regina Nouhan, MD