Erwin J. Bulan, M.D.

Residency

Georgetown University Medical Center
Division of Plastic Surgery
Washington, D.C.
Integrated Plastic Surgery Residency, 1996-2002

Education

State University of New York
Health Science Center at Syracuse
Syracuse, New York
M.D., 1992-1996

Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
B.S., Biology, 1988-1992

Board Certification

American Board of Plastic Surgery, November 2003

Licensure

New Jersey, 2002
New York, 2007

Virginia, 1997
District of Columbia, 1999

Honors

Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, 1995
Dean’s Letter of Commendation, SUNY HSC at Syracuse, 1992-94
Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society of Agriculture, Cornell University, 1992
Golden Key National Honor Society, Cornell University, 1990
Valedictorian- Ellenville High School, Ellenville, NY, 1988

Awards

Selected- one of the “2007 America’s Top Plastic Surgeons” by the Consumers’ Research Council of America
2000 Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation (PSEF) Certificate of Merit Clinical Research Award for “Health benefits of large volume liposuction”
American Medical Association Physician’s Recognition Award, June 1999
Awarded Summer Research Fellowship- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, 1993

Certificates

Microsurgical Techniques, The Curtis National Hand Center Microsurgical Training Program, June 2000.

Developments in Body Contouring Course Featuring the Procedure of Ultrasound Assisted Lipoplasty (UAL), Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland, February, 1999.

Obaji Skin Health Restoration & Rejuvenation Certificate of Instruction, Washington, D.C., January, 2002.

CO2 Ultrapulse Laser Certification, ForTec Medical Incorporated, Washington, D.C., June, 2002.

Grants

$10,000 – Plastic Surgery Education Foundation, Study of the Health Benefits of Large Volume Liposuction II: Possible link between subcutaneous fat and insulin regulation.

Activities

Luz del Sol – surgical mission to Dominican Republic, August 2001 Professional Societies: Member, American Society of Plastic Surgery Member, Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons New Jersey Society of Plastic Surgeons Essex County Medical Society Alpha Omega Alpha (AÙA) Honor Medical Society

Presentation

“Update on Liposuction: Past, Present, and Future”
Presented January 19, 2002, Georgetown Plastic Surgery Grand Rounds

“Implications of direct versus indirect revascularization of the ulcerated ischemic angiosome in limb salvage.”
Presented March 22, 2002, Senior Residents Conference, Seattle, Washington
Presented January 16, 2001, 16th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, San Diego, California
Presented September 16, 2000, 17th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Presented December, 2000, Chesapeake Vascular Society, Bethesda, Maryland

“Health Benefits of Large Volume Liposuction.”
Presented May 12, 2000, Residents & Fellows Forum, 33rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, May, 2000

Abstracts

Bulan EJ, Mienville JM. On-cell recordings of large-conductance K+ channels in embryonic rat telencephalon. Annual National Institutes of Health Summer Research Program, Bethesda, MD, 1993

Published Papers

Spear SL, Bulan EJ, Venturi ML. Breast Augmentation. Plast Reconstr Surg 114: 73e-81e, 2004 Giese SY, Neborsky R, Bulan EJ, Spear SL, Yanovski JA. Improvements in cardiovascular risk profile after large-volume lipoplasty: A 1 year follow-up study. Aesthetic Surg J 21: 527-531, 2001

Spear SL, Bulan EJ. The medial periareolar approach to submuscular augmentation mammaplasty under local anesthesia: A 10 year follow-up. Plast Reconstr Surg 108: 771-775, 2001

Giese SY, Bulan EJ, Commons GW, Spear SL, Yanovski JA. Improvements in cardiovascular risk profile with large volume liposuction: a pilot study. Plast Reconstr Surg 108: 510-519, 2001

Attinger CE, Bulan EJ. Debridement. The key initial first step in wound healing. Foot Ankle Clin 6(4):627-660, 2001

Attinger C, Cooper P, Blume P, Bulan E. The safest surgical incisions and amputations applying the angiosome principles and using the Doppler to assess the arterial-arterial connections of the foot and ankle. Foot Ankle Clin 6(4):745-799, 2001

Attinger CE, Bulan E, Blume PA. Surgical debridement. The key to successful wound healing and reconstruction. Clin Podiatr Med Surg 17(4):599-630, 2000

Bulan EJ, Mienville JM, Barker JL. Immature Maxi-K Channels exhibit heterogeneous properties in the embryonic rat telencephalon. Developmental Neuroscience 16:25-33, 1994