Robert Grant (surgeon)



Robert T. Grant, MD is the current Chief of the Combined Divisions of Plastic Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and an Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

Dr. Grant specializes in microsurgery, reconstruction after cancer surgery and trauma, and cosmetic surgery (Cornell 2007). He leads the team of researchers in the Department of Plastic Surgery Research Laboratory at Columbia who are currently making advancements in tissue-engineered approaches to wound healing, dealing with the use of stem cells (CPMC 2006). The study has discovered that the stem cells taken from adult fat tissue can transform into bone, cartilage, or fat depending on culture conditions (CP Research 2006).

Selected Publications
Dr. Grant is a member of the editorial board of the Advisor in Plastic Surgery: Resident and Staff Physician, and a reviewer for Transplantation and Aesthetic Surgery Journal (the official publication of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed clinical studies and book chapters and has given numerous national and international presentations.
 * Use of topical sRAGE in diabetic wounds increases neovascularization and granulation tissue formation. Wear-Maggitti K, Lee J, Conejero A, Schmidt A, Grant R, Breitbart A. Ann Plast Surg. 52:519-522. 2004.
 * Gene enhanced tissue engineering: Applications for wound healing using cultured dermal fibroblasts retrovirally transduced with PDGF-B gene. Breitbart AS, Mason JM, Urasmacher L, Barcia M, Grant RT, Pergolizzi RG, Grande DA. Ann Plast Surg. 43:632-639. 1999.
 * Gene-enhanced tissue engineering: Application for bone healing using cultured periosteal cells transduced retrovirally with the BMP-7 gene. Breitbart AS, Grande DA, Mason JM, Grant RT. Ann Plast Surg. 42: 488-495. 1999.
 * Tissue engineered bone repair of calvarial defects using cultured periosteal cells. Breitbart AS, Grande DA, Kessler R, Ryaby J, Grant RT. Plast Reconstr Surg. 101: 567-574. 1998.