Vu T. Nguyen MD

Dr. Vu Nguyen is currently an Assistant Professor in the University of Pittsburgh Department of Plastic Surgery. He completed his undergraduate studies at Texas Christian University and earned his medical degree from the University of Nebraska. Dr. Nguyen finished the combined residency program in General and Plastic Surgery, in addition to a two-year research fellowship, at the University of Pittsburgh. Following which, he completed the clinical fellowship in Microsurgery, Breast, and Aesthetic surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, under the direction of Dr. Joseph Serletti. The focus of his fellowship training centered on the spectrum of microsurgical techniques for breast reconstruction including SIEA, DIEP, muscle-sparing free TRAM, and gluteal (GAP) free flap procedures. Additional elements of the fellowship included implant-based breast reconstruction and Advanced Aesthetic Procedures.

Dr. Nguyen’s clinical practice includes the full spectrum of Adult Reconstructive and Aesthetic surgery; with a particular focus on Microsurgery and Breast reconstruction (including perforator flap techniques, direct-to-implant reconstruction, nipple-sparing mastectomy, and oncoplastic reconstruction). Building on his previous research in the area of Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA), Dr. Nguyen’s research interests include Microsurgical models of VCA and clinical outcomes in Breast Reconstruction.