Dr. Eric Hu was born in Taiwan and moved to Los Angeles where he finished high school as class valedictorian and graduated with honors at Harvard College in biomedical engineering. Dr. Hu attended medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed five years of general surgery residency at the Saint Vincents Catholic Medical Centers in New York city before becoming fully trained as a plastic and reconstructive surgeon. He is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery.
His research interests in biomechanics as well as wound healing and flap survival while at Harvard, Cedars-Sinai, and at the University of Mississippi Medical Center have enabled him to apply advanced resconstructive principles to all of his procedures to improve outcome. His special interests in cosmetic surgery includes breast aesthetics, individualized body contouring to restore and enhance shape and proportions with application of advanced liposculpture and fat grafting techniques, Minimial Access Cranio-Suspension(MACS) face, neck, and brow lifts, as well as various other modern procedures in aesthetic plastic surgery.
- 1997 – Albert Einstein College Of Medicine, Bronx, NY
PRE–MEDICAL EDUCATION
- 1992 – Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
honors in Biomedical Engineering
TRAINING
- 2005-2007 Residency in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Division of Plastic and Reconstructive surgery
Jackson, Mississippi - 2004-2005 Fellowship in Microsurgery and Complex Reconstruction
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Center for Microsurgery and Complex Reconstruction
Jackson, Mississippi - 1997-2002 General Surgery Residency
Saint Vincents Catholic Medical Center-Manhattan
Department of Surgery
New York Medical College
HONORS & AWARDS
- The James H. Hendrix, Jr Lectureship Best Presentation Award, 2006
- The James H. Hendrix, Jr Lectureship Best Presentation Award, 2005
- Jack and Pearl Resnick Scholarship, 1993-1995
- Harvard College Scholarship, 1988-1992
- Robert Byrd Scholarship, 1988-1990
- Harvard Dean’s list, 1988-1992
- Los Angeles High School high jump championship, 1988
- Board Certified
- Chen WJ, Zhang F, Mustain WC, Tucci M, Hu EC., Lineaweaver WC. Prefabrication of Vascularized Bone Flap by Demineralized Bone Matrix. J Craniofacial Surgery. 2007 Jan; 18(1): 43-48
- Zhang F, Hu EC, Topp S, Lei M, Chen W, Lineaweaver WC. Proinflammatory cytokines gene expression in skin flaps with arterial and venous ischemia in rats. J Reconstructive Microsurgery. 2006 Nov; 22(8): 641-7
- Zhang F, Hu EC, Chen W, Lineaweaver WC. Treatment of painful neuroma of amputated phalanx with distal toe transfer: a case report. South Med J. 2006 Jan;99(1):85-9.
- Zhang F, Yang F, Hu EC, Sones W, Lineaweaver WC. Vascular endothelial growth factor gene therapy in improvement of skin paddle survival in a rat TRAM flap model. J Reconstr Microsurg. 2005 Aug;21(6):391-6.
- Zhang F, Hu EC, Gerzenshtein J, Lei MP, Lineaweaver WC. The Expression of Proinflammatory Cytokines in the Rat Muscle Flap with Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury. Ann Plast Surg 2005; 54(2)
- Stromeyer C, Chaparro A, Rodriguez C, Chen D, Hu E, Kronauer R. Short-wave cone signal in red-green detection mechanism. Vision Research. 1999 Jun;39(12): 2099-112
- Brodman RF, Frame R, Camacho M, Hu EC, Chen AH, Hollinger I. Routine use of unilateral and bilateral radial artery for coronary artery bypass grafting. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 1996; 28: 959-963.
- Chen AH, Nakao T, Brodman RF, Greenberg M, Charney R, Menegus M, Johnson M, Grose R, Frame R, Hu EC, Choi H, Safyer, S. Early postoperative angiographic assessment of radial artery grafts used for coronary artery bypass grafting. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 1996; 111: 1208-1212.
- Hu EC, Zhang F, Lei MP, Lineaweaver WC. Cytokine Gene Expression in Arterial and Venous Ischemia in a Rat Skin Flap Model. 2005 annual American Society of Reconstructive Surgery Meeting. San Juan, Porto Rico, Jan 16th, 2005.
- Hu EC, Zhang F, Yang F, Zhang J, Lei MP, Sones W, and Lineaweaver WC. Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Gene Therapy in Improvement of Skin Paddle Survival in a Rat TRAM Flap Model ACS surgical forum 2004, 90th AnnualClinicalCongress of the American College of Surgeons, New Orleans, Oct 2004
- Chaparro A., Stromeyer C., Kronauer R., Hu EC., Kladakis S., Rodriguez C. Short Wave Cone to Red Hyphen Green. Abstract: Investigative Opthalmology Vol 36(supp). 210.
- Hu EC., Khan S. Neural Network Simulation of Cardiac Arrythmias
Abstract: “9th Symposium on Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology”, May 1991.