Alan ChenMD

Dr. Chen completed his Bachelors of arts degree and graduated Cum Laude from Cornell University. He received his Medical Degree with honors from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Dr. Chen completed a General Surgery Residency at Harvard Medical School at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. There, he was trained by Dr. Josef Fischer, named one of the top twenty-five most influential surgeons in the last century by Archives of Surgery. During this training, Dr. Chen also completed a two-year surgical research fellowship at the Yale University School of Medicine in the Division of Vascular Surgery.

Following his general surgery training, Dr. Chen then completed a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center under Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee. The University of Pittsburgh is recognized as having one of the best Plastic Surgery Residency programs in the nation. It has trained more leaders and Division Chiefs in Plastic Surgery than any other program. It is also the first institution in the U.S. to successfully perform a bilateral hand transplantation.