Affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and University of Rennes

Dr. Yanis Berkane is a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Resident in Rennes, France (Pr. Nicolas Bertheuil) and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School (CEMS, Uygun Lab). He is currently concluding a Ph.D focusing on Machine Perfusion and Tissue Engineering applications in Reconstructive surgery, which is consistent with his clinical focus areas (Microsurgical flaps, Breast reconstruction). He joined the Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation Laboratory (Pr. Cetrulo) in 2021 and developed expertise in VCA subnormothermic machine perfusion, subzero non-freezing, and tissue engineering. He aims at an academic plastic surgeon career in France, while keeping part of his research projects in the US.