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Yale Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – Wound Center
Orchard Medical Center at St. Raphael’s Campus
330 Orchard Street, Wing Surgical Specialties Fl 2nd Floor Ste Suite E2100
New Haven, CT 06511
  • Yale Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – Wound Center
    Orchard Medical Center at St. Raphael’s Campus
    330 Orchard Street, Wing Surgical Specialties Fl 2nd Floor Ste Suite E2100
    New Haven, CT 06511

Henry C. Hsia, MD, FACS

Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Regenerative Wound Healing Surgery
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Patient type treated
Child, Adult
Accepting new patients
Yes
Referral required
From patients or physicians
Board Certified in
Plastic Surgery

Biography

Henry Hsia, MD, is a plastic surgeon and the founding director of the Yale Medicine Regenerative Wound Healing Program. He focuses on the treatment of all wounds, regardless of etiology, patient age, or location on the body.

He has a particular interest in wounds that don’t heal easily. “Wound care is unique in that it involves living tissue, and there is no suturing technique, medication, or ointment that is guaranteed to heal it,” Dr. Hsia says. “So, I try to think about the circumstances that might be promoting or hindering its healing. When a patient says that a wound has been there for three months and won’t heal, I ask questions that might give me clues—are they eating well, are they a smoker, are they a diabetic and, if so, is the diabetes well controlled?”

As a professor of surgery & biomedical engineering at Yale University, Dr. Hsia focuses his research on how wound care can be optimized not only through the better understanding of the social determinants underlying chronic wounds, but also through molecular and cellular research that may lead to novel approaches and interventions for challenging wounds. “I’m trying to correlate characteristics of patients’ skin and wounds with their clinical healing to find patterns that we can use to devise better wound care treatments,” he says.

Dr. Hsia chose plastic surgery as his specialty because he found it to be especially creative. No two patients are alike and no two problems are identical, he says. “The wounds can be anywhere on the body from the scalp down to the toes,” he adds. “But, whatever the problem, you can reduce my job down to a single phrase: quality of life. We want to help the patient move on, whether it was from a car accident or a cancer operation, and I find that very appealing.”

Titles

  • Professor of Surgery (Plastics)
  • Founding Director, Yale Regenerative Wound Healing Center

Education & Training

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    Princeton University (2005)
  • Resident
    Yale-New Haven Hospital (2002)
  • Resident
    Yale-New Haven Hospital (1999)
  • MD
    Yale University School of Medicine (1996)
  • BA
    Harvard University, Biology & Anthropology (1990)

Additional Information

Locations
Yale Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – Wound Center
Orchard Medical Center at St. Raphael’s Campus
330 Orchard Street, Wing Surgical Specialties Fl 2nd Floor Ste Suite E2100
New Haven, CT 06511
  • Yale Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – Wound Center
    Orchard Medical Center at St. Raphael’s Campus
    330 Orchard Street, Wing Surgical Specialties Fl 2nd Floor Ste Suite E2100
    New Haven, CT 06511

Biography

Henry Hsia, MD, is a plastic surgeon and the founding director of the Yale Medicine Regenerative Wound Healing Program. He focuses on the treatment of all wounds, regardless of etiology, patient age, or location on the body.

He has a particular interest in wounds that don’t heal easily. “Wound care is unique in that it involves living tissue, and there is no suturing technique, medication, or ointment that is guaranteed to heal it,” Dr. Hsia says. “So, I try to think about the circumstances that might be promoting or hindering its healing. When a patient says that a wound has been there for three months and won’t heal, I ask questions that might give me clues—are they eating well, are they a smoker, are they a diabetic and, if so, is the diabetes well controlled?”

As a professor of surgery & biomedical engineering at Yale University, Dr. Hsia focuses his research on how wound care can be optimized not only through the better understanding of the social determinants underlying chronic wounds, but also through molecular and cellular research that may lead to novel approaches and interventions for challenging wounds. “I’m trying to correlate characteristics of patients’ skin and wounds with their clinical healing to find patterns that we can use to devise better wound care treatments,” he says.

Dr. Hsia chose plastic surgery as his specialty because he found it to be especially creative. No two patients are alike and no two problems are identical, he says. “The wounds can be anywhere on the body from the scalp down to the toes,” he adds. “But, whatever the problem, you can reduce my job down to a single phrase: quality of life. We want to help the patient move on, whether it was from a car accident or a cancer operation, and I find that very appealing.”

Titles

  • Professor of Surgery (Plastics)
  • Founding Director, Yale Regenerative Wound Healing Center

Education & Training

  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    Princeton University (2005)
  • Resident
    Yale-New Haven Hospital (2002)
  • Resident
    Yale-New Haven Hospital (1999)
  • MD
    Yale University School of Medicine (1996)
  • BA
    Harvard University, Biology & Anthropology (1990)

Additional Information

Locations
Yale Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – Wound Center
Orchard Medical Center at St. Raphael’s Campus
330 Orchard Street, Wing Surgical Specialties Fl 2nd Floor Ste Suite E2100
New Haven, CT 06511
  • Yale Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – Wound Center
    Orchard Medical Center at St. Raphael’s Campus
    330 Orchard Street, Wing Surgical Specialties Fl 2nd Floor Ste Suite E2100
    New Haven, CT 06511
Yale Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – Wound Center
Orchard Medical Center at St. Raphael’s Campus
330 Orchard Street, Wing Surgical Specialties Fl 2nd Floor Ste Suite E2100
New Haven, CT 06511
  • Yale Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – Wound Center
    Orchard Medical Center at St. Raphael’s Campus
    330 Orchard Street, Wing Surgical Specialties Fl 2nd Floor Ste Suite E2100
    New Haven, CT 06511