Plastic Surgery

Dr. Greene's research interests include angiogenesis and its role in vascular anomalies, cranioplasty and vacuum-assisted wound closure. He obtained his B.A. from the University of Chicago and his M.D. from the University of Illinois. After general surgery training at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center he studied angiogenesis for three years as a Howard Hughes Fellow in the laboratory of Judah Folkman, MD at Children's Hospital Boston. He obtained a Masters in Medical Sciences Degree, with his thesis on vascular anomalies, from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Greene subsequently completed plastic surgery training in the Harvard Combined Plastic Surgery Training Program and a fellowship in craniofacial and pediatric plastic surgery at Children's Hospital Boston.

Dr. Lu's research expertise is in the field of angiogenesis. He obtained his M.D. from Shanxi Medical University in China and his M.S. from the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine. He then received a Ph.D. from Uppsala University in Sweden studying signal transduction and blood vessel formation. After completing his graduate studies he matriculated to Harvard Medical School in 2003 where he began his post-doctoral work at Massachusetts General Hospital studying lymphangiogenesis and embryonic stem cells. He then completed a second post-doctoral fellowship at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center developing novel anti-angiogenic and gene therapies. He joined the Department of Plastic Surgery at Children's Hospital Boston in 2007 as Laboratory Manager and Research Associate at Harvard Medical School.

Our two major collaborations include the Department of Vascular Biology as well as the Vascular Anomalies Center, directed by John B. Mulliken, MD, and Steven Fishman, MD. Within the Department of Vascular Biology, we work closely with Marsha Moses, PhD, who focuses on matrix metalloproteinases, Joyce Bischoff, PhD, who studies hemangioma and endothelial stem cells, and Mark Puder, MD, PhD, who investigates angiogenesis and tissue regeneration. At the Brigham and Women's Hospital, we are collaborating with Julie Glowacki, PhD, on our cranioplasty studies, and with Dennis Orgill, MD, PhD, on the mechanism of vacuum-assisted wound closure.