Title:

• Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery

Specialties:

• Breast Cancer
• Plastic Surgery

Background:

Dr. Schooler earned his medical degree from the University of NC Chapel Hill, where he also completed his training in General Surgery and Critical Care as well as a NIH Trauma Training Research Grant where he studied cultured skin cells for massive burn resurfacing. He later completed his Plastic Surgery training at the UC San Francisco followed by a Hand and Microsurgery Fellowship at the Hand Center of San Antonio. Prior to joining the faculty of the Keck School of Medicine at USC, he was an assistant professor of plastic surgery at Oregon Health Science University, in Portland Oregon, where he focused on hand trauma, aesthetic breast surgery and breast reconstruction, including being the only plastic surgeon in the state routinely performing the DIEP microvascular breast reconstruction. His numerous clinical interests include aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery and reconstructive microsurgery, especially the DIEP flap, where the lower abdominal tissue normally removed during abdominoplasty surgery is used to create a breast while sparing the muscle. He also has particular interests in the advancement of aesthetic facial, breast and body surgery in patients with ethnic features and skin types. His expertise in hand surgery is broad and includes operative management of distal radius fractures, pyrocarbon small joint replacements for arthritis and major upper extremity reconstruction. Dr. Schooler has research interests in reduction of scarring, tissue engineering and tendon adhesions. As a diplomate of both the American Board of Surgery, the American Board of Plastic Surgery and candidate member in the American College of Surgeons and American Society for Surgery of the Hand, Dr. Schooler continues to pursue the latest techniques in aesthetic, hand and microsurgery to provide state of the art care for his patients.

Education:

• Doctor of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC

Internships:

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - General Surgery, Chapel Hill, NC, 1995 - 1996

Residencies:

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - General Surgery, Chapel Hill, NC, 1996 - 2002
• University of California San Francisco - Plastic Surgery, San Francisco, CA, 2003 - 2005

Fellowships:

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Surgical Critical Care, Trauma, Burns, Chapel Hill, NC, 2002 - 2003
• The Hand Center of San Antonio - Hand Surgery, San Antonio, TX, 2005 - 2006

Board Certification:

• American Board of Plastic Surgery
• American Board of Surgery

Professional Society Memberships:

• NC State Medical Society
• Society of Critical Care Medicine
• American Society for the Surgery of the Hand
• American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery

Awards:

• National Achievement Scholarship, 1987
• National Merit Scholarship Finalist, 1987
• NSF Biochemistry Research Proposal Competition, Honorable Mention, 1989
• Old North State Medical & Dental Society Scholarship, 1992
• NIH Student Summer Research Grant, 1992 and 1993
• NC Medical Foundation Cofounder Club Research Grant, 1993
• Bristol-Meyers-Squibb Commonwealth Fellowship for Academic Medicine, 1994
• NC Committee on Trauma Annual Resident Paper Competition, Honorable Mention, 1999

Languages:

• English