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| Dr Nicole Garcia, now a plastic surgery registrar at PeterMac |
Congratulations to Dr Nicole Garcia, who has been awarded a Master of Surgery degree on completion of her thesis, "Graft-host interactions in full-thickness wounds using mouse models". She was supervised by
Dr Shiva Akbarzadeh and
Dr Cheng Lo in the Department of Surgery.
Little is known about the mechanism by which skin grafting accelerates wound healing. Dr Garcia writes, "We investigated this using an autologous full-thickness and a synthetic graft in a novel mouse model.
