By Tom Fontaine
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, December 27, 2009
PatientFYI Profile: http://patientfyi.com/cosmeticsurgeon/J._Peter-Rubin-cosmeticsurgeon-in-PITTSBURGH-PA-15261-690804
Residence: Fox Chapel
Age: 43
Family: Wife, Julie, and four children
Occupation: Associate professor of plastic surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; co-director of Pitt’s Adipose Stem Cell Center.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in biology from Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa; medical degree from Tufts University, Medford, Mass.
Background: Rubin is a faculty member in the University of Pittsburgh’s Division of Plastic Surgery and holds a faculty appointment with the McGowan Institute of Regenerative Medicine.
Noteworthy: Rubin is leading a team that received a $1.6 million Department of Defense grant to help wounded soldiers recover from facial injuries using innovative surgical technologies. Fat grafting will be facilitated in this project by using specially designed devices and instruments for harvesting fat tissue and implanting it into regions of scarred tissue.
Quote: “As many as 26 percent of wounded soldiers suffer some kind of facial injury, which can have a huge impact on quality of life. While we can reconstruct bony structures very well, it is the surrounding soft tissues that give people a recognizable face.”
