Dr. Z-Hye Lee is an assistant professor at the Department of Plastic Surgery at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. She specializes in reconstructive surgery and microsurgery specifically involving head and neck reconstruction and breast reconstruction. She received her undergraduate education at Dartmouth College. After obtaining her Medical Doctorate with Alpha Omega Alpha honors from New York University Grossman School of Medicine in 2010, she went on to complete her integrated plastic surgery residency at New York University Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery. Upon completion of her fellowship in microvascular reconstructive surgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center, she was recruited to join the faculty of the Department of Plastic Surgery at MD Anderson.
Dr. Jessie Z Yu is a board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon and is an assistant professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Yu completed her reconstructive microsurgery fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her residency in plastic surgery took place at the Hansjorg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery at New York University Langone Health, during which she also completed an additional research fellowship in lymphedema at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She earned her medical degree from New York University Grossman School of Medicine. She has been recognized for her outstanding work with several awards, including the 2022 Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award from the Department of Surgery at Baylor College Medicine and the 2019 Fellowship Best Case, Best Save Award from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Yu has also been honored with the Valentine Mott Surgery Award, the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Leonard J. Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, and the Dr. Saul J. Farber Research Award in Public Health from New York University School of Medicine, as well as the Sigma Xi Book Award from Princeton University.
Dr. Edward I Chang is a board-certified plastic surgeon and professor at the Department of Plastic Surgery at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and then matriculated to the NYU School of Medicine, where he graduated AOA with Honors in Cell Biology. He was accepted to the combined plastic surgery program at the University of California San Francisco, where he was honored as Intern of the Year. He then completed a post-doctoral research fellowship at Stanford University. He then spent an additional year at MD Anderson Cancer Center for a microsurgical fellowship and was recruited to stay on as faculty. He has published widely on basic science as well as clinical outcomes in over 130 peer-reviewed journals and specializes in microvascular free flap reconstruction with a focus on complex microsurgical reconstruction for breast, head and neck, and extremity defects following cancer resection and also supermicrosurgery for the treatment of lymphedema.
