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Aldona J. Spiegel, MD, recognized as one of Houston Methodist’s outstanding scientists and physicians in the Women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) Bulletin
Women in STEM Bulletin
January 2024
Aldona J. Spiegel, MD, has been inducted into the Prestigious Marquis Who’s Who Biographical Registry
Marquis Who’s Who
Fall 2022
After Mastectomies, an Unexpected Blow: Numb New Breasts
The New York Times
Designing a Flexible Approach to Breast Reconstruction
Methodology The Research and Education
Magazine of Houston Methodist
Spring 2019
Breast reconstruction using your own tissue
Good Morning TVN, Live Television
TVN Television
May 2018
A Breast Reconstruction will Allow Sensitivity
Health Barcelona
El Punt Avui
March 8, 2018
Women with breast cancer can already recover chest sensitivity
Ara.cat
Societat
March 7, 2018
Sensitivity in Breast Reconstructed after Cancer
Sant Pau Regains
elPeriodico
A new technique allows recovery of sensitivity in reconstructed breast after cancer
ABC Catalonia
March 7, 2018
Houston Methodist Facebook Video
Expert answers from a breast medical oncologist and plastic reconstructive surgeon
October 2017
Nipple Sparing Mastectomy
Houston Methodist
Video
July 15, 2017
After Mastectomy, an unexpected blow: Numb New Breasts
The New York Times
January 30, 2017
A struggle that does not end
Estilo Magazine
November 2016
Life after Lumpectomy
Ivanhoe Broadcast News
December 2, 2015
Advancements in Breast Reconstruction
Prime International Anti-Ageing Journal
October 7, 2014
Living Beyond Breast Cancer
Breast Reconstruction
Twitter Chat, #LBBCchat
Plastic Surgery Technique Restores Breast Sensation
Houston Chronicle
September 23, 2013
Women on the Cutting Edge
The Methodist Hospital Foundation Magazine
Nov. 2012
Houston Breast Reconstruction Surgeon Advances New Method for sensation Recovery for Breast Cancer Patients
Open PR Worldwide Public Relations.
August 16, 2011
What Every Woman with Breast Cancer Should Know About Breast Restoration
Leading Medicine
12, No.1. Methodist
September 2, 2010
Breast Reconstruction with Re-Innervation-A Better Alternative to Implants after a Mastectomy
Middle East Health
July 15, 2009
Flaps & Reconstructive Surgery (DVD).
Wei FC, Mardini S, eds. United States: Saunders, Elsevier; 2009. Superficial Inferior Epigastric Artery (SIEA) Flap for Breast Reconstruction; Chapter 6 (32.08min)
2009
Improved Breast Reconstruction Surgery Available
Texas Medical Center NEWS 23, No.18
October 1, 2002
Health Beat: Revolutionary way to rebuild breasts after cancer
WFMZ-TV
April 22, 2020
WATCH VIDEO
After Mastectomy, an unexpected blow: Numb New Breasts
The New York Times
January 30, 2017
READ ARTICLE
Advancements in Breast Reconstruction
Prime International Anti-Aging Journal
October 7, 2014
Plastic Surgery Technique Restores Breast Sensation
Houston Chronicle
September, 2013
Women on the Cutting Edge
The Methodist Hospital Foundation Magazine
November, 2012
US News Top Doctor
US News Online
April 2, 2011
Giving Breast Cancer Patients a Choice
Change Magazine
March 2, 2011
What Every Woman Should Know About Breast Restoration
September 2, 2010
Breast Reconstruction with Reinnervation – A Better Alternative to Implants After a Mastectomy
Middle East Health
September 2, 2009
Life With Breast Cancer
Every Day Health
May 14, 2007
Life After Lumpectomy
Smart Woman
January 31, 2004
Improved Breast Reconstruction Surgery Available
The Medical Center News
October 1, 2002
Media
Revolutionary way to rebuild breasts after cancer.
April 2020
Nipple Sparing Mastectomy & Reconstruction.
April 2019
Dr. Spiegel in the News. DIEP/SIEA Flap procedures.
March 2011
Travel
American Society For Reconstructive Microsurgery Annual Meeting 2024 (ASRM), Nassau, Bahamas
January 2024
Moderator: “How to Set Up a Microsurgical Practice Anywhere”
MTF Trends & Techniques Symposium, Miami, FL
November 2023
Keynote Speaker: “The Evolution of Flex HD and Pliable Pre”
Panel discussion with Women in Plastic Surgery Group
MENTOR Women’s Advancing Plastic Surgery
Education Forum, Hartford, CT
November 2023
Speaker: “MGB in Direct to Implant Breast Reconstruction”
Speaker: “Sensory Innervation”
American Society of Plastic Surgeons-Plastic Surgery the Meeting 2023 (ASPS), Austin, TX
October 2023
Moderator: High Risk, High Reward: Genetically Susceptible Patients (on demand session)
Moderator: Mastering Microsurgery in Academic Versus Private Practice (on demand session)
Panelist: “Thinking Outside the Box: Most Useful Pearls to Enhance Your Breast Practice”
MTF Trends & Techniques Symposium, Scottsdale, AZ
June 2023
Speaker: “The Evolution of Pliable Pre”
Nairobi Microsurgery Workshop, Virtual
April 2023
Speaker: “Tips and Tricks for Microsurgical Breast Reconstruction”
MedTech Innovator 2023 East Coast Pitch Event, Baltimore, MD
March 2023
Role: Judge for East Coast Pitch Event &
Mentor for one of the finalists
38th Annual Atlanta Breast Surgery Symposium, Atlanta, GA
January 2023
Speaker: “Strategies in Direct to Implant Prepectoral Reconstruction”
Speaker: “Refinements in DIEP Flap Reconstruction”
Panelist: “Incorporating Breast Reconstruction Neurotization into your Practice”
American Society For Reconstructive Microsurgery (ASRM) 2023, Miami, FL
January 2023
Speaker: “What works and what doesn’t in radiated breast deformities?”
American Society of Plastic Surgeons-Plastic Surgery The Meeting 2022, Boston, MA
October 2022
Panelist: The Sensational Breast Event: Plastic Surgery 2022
Panelist & Judge: The Tank-Plastic Surgery Innovation Challenge
Focus Group Panelist: ASPS-The Plastic Surgery Foundation
Medtech Conference, Boston, MA
Group for Advancement of Breast Reconstruction (GABR) Meeting, Awendaw, SC
October 2022
Co-chair & Speaker: “The Elusive Art of Optimizing Breast Aesthetics”
8th International Breast Surgery Workshop & 4th World Consensus Conference on BIA-ALCL, Houston, TX
September 2022
Speaker: “Achieving a Sensate Breast”
Women in Plastic Surgery (WPS) Remix Series , Arlington Heights, IL (Virtual)
September 2022
Speaker: “Innovation in Plastic Surgery”
TMC Innovation, Surgical Innovations Day, Houston, TX
August 2022
Panelist: “Incorporating Surgical Innovations Into the Operating Room and workflow
International Microsurgery Club Webinar, China
August 2022
Panelist: Breast Reconstruction: 30 years personal experience
American Association of Plastic Surgeons (AAPS) Centennial Meeting, San Diego, CA
April 2022
Speaker: “Sensation-Preserving Mastectomy with Implant or Autologous Breast Reconstruction: Fad or Frontier?”
Women in Plastic Surgery (WPS) Enrichment Retreat, Tucson, AZ
February 2022
Keynote Speaker: “Building a Plastic Surgery Legacy”
American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery (ASRM), Carlsbad, CA
January 2022
Panelist: ASRM Masters Series in Microsurgery
American Society of Plastic Surgeons-Plastic Surgery The Meeting 2021, Atlanta, GA
October 2021
Panelist: The Sensatoinal Breast Neurotization Session
7th International Breast Surgery Workshop/3rd World Consensus Conference on BIA-ALCL, Rome, Italy
October 2021
Panelist: Autologous breast reconstruction session: Combining Conjoined DIEP flaps with Lymph Node Transfers
VI World Symposium on Ergonomic Implants, Lago di Garda, Italy
October 2021
Keynote Speaker: “Rose and Reconstruction Fireside Chat”
International Microsurgery Club Webinar, China
October 2021
Speaker: “Breast Reconstruction: Sensory Restoration”
https://imw.global/imw/#/home
London Breast Meeting 2021, London, United Kingdom
Virtual Meeting
September 2021
Speaker: Parallel Session 1A: What’s new in DIEP flap reconstruction “How to Achieve Divine Proportions”
Chicago Breast and World Lymphedema Symposium, Chicago, IL
Virtual Symposium
April 2021
Panelist: Sensory Restoration
Latin American Society of Microsurgery–Virtual Symposium
March 2021
Panelist: The Next Step in Optimizing Breast Reconstruction: Restoring Sensation. From Head to Toe: Female Microsurgeons Leading the Way.
Latin American Society of Microsurgery–Webinar
August 2020
Guest Speaker: Improving Aesthetics in Autologous Breast Reconstruction
Aesthetic Society Meeting–Virtual Meeting
April 2020
Lecturer: Optimizing Aesthetic and Nipple Sensation in Nipple Sparing Mastectomy
Discussion Participant, Breast Reconstruction-COVID
American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
January 2020
Panelist: Master Series in Microsurgery, Think Big, Act Small: The Building Blocks for Success. Procedural Development. Neurotized Breast Flaps.
Panelist: Improving Aesthetics in Autologous Breast Reconstruction-A Look Beyond Flap Survival and Complication Rates.
Breast Reconstruction, State of the Art 2019, New York, New York
November 2019
Panelist: What is the Best Breast Support Material. ADM Optimized for Pre- Pectoral.
Panelist: Optimization of DIEP Flaps. Neurotization of the DIEP Flap: Technique and Data and Donor
Site Aesthetics.
World Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Bologna, Italy
June 2019
Moderator and Panelist, Breast Reconstruction: Variations on the Gold Standard. Aesthetic DIEP Donor Site.
Panelist: AJ DIEP Flap Refinements: Sensation, Speedy, Aesthetics.
Panelist: Evidence in Microsurgery. Controversies in Risk-Reduction Mastectomy.
7th International Breast Symposium. Dusseldorf, Germany
April 2019
Panelist: Reconstruction Radio Therapy
Keynote Lecturer, Sensate Breast Reconstruction
Patagonia Microsurgery Meeting, Puerto Varas, Chile
March 2019
Invited Lecturer: Lymphnode Transfer for Post Mastectomy Lymphedema. Invited Lecturer, Neurotization in Breast Reconstruction
Invited Lecturer: Optimizing the DIEP Flap Donor Site Aesthetics.
XII Central American and Caribbean Congress of Plastic Surgery FILACP, Panama City, Panama
February 2019
Master Keynote Lecturer: Breast Surgery-The New Era in Breast Reconstruction, How to Build a Successful Career in Breast Reconstruction
Panelist: Direct to Implant Prepectoral Reconstruction
Panelist: Innovation–The Cutting Edge Guided by Creativity Upon Adversity, Sensation in Breast Reconstruction
American Society of Plastic Surgeons Special Symposium, Chicago, Illinois
October 2018
Presenter: Evolution of ADM Design for Pre-pectoral Breast Reconstruction
Group for Advancement for Breast Reconstruction, Oslo, Norway
August 2018
Co-Chair, Lecturer: Sensate Breast Reconstruction Refinements of the DIEP Flap Abdominal Donor site. Sensate Breast Reconstruction
5th Breast Care Surgical Excellence Symposium, Hamburg, Germany
May 2018
Panelist: Optimizing Scar Results, new tips and tools
Panelist: Maintaining Nipple Sensation, new tips and tools
Panelist: Biopatch/reduced pain/drain stabilization, new tips and tools.
Presenter: Pre-pectoral Breast Reconstruction, Current Concepts in Breast Reconstruction Surgery
Breast Design Days, Lodz, Poland
May 2018
Lecturer: Restoration of Sensation in the Nipple after Breast Reconstruction. Lecturer, Nipple Areolar Complex Reconstruction
Lecturer: Free Flaps in Breast Reconstruction
Chair: Free Flaps/Microsurgery in Breast Reconstruction
14th Congress of the European Federation of Societies for Microsurgery, Belgrade
May 2018
Panelist: Lymph Node Transfer with Bipedicled Diep Flaps, Instructional Course Panelist, Sensate Breast Reconstruction
Barcelona Breast Meeting, Barcelona, Spain
March 2018
Panelist: Anonymous Challenging Case in Breast Surgery from the Audience for the Masters
Panelist: Mosba Championship. Building Bridges with the Knowledge Chair, Fat Grafting Update in Breast Reconstruction
Panelist: Sensate Breast Reconstruction, My Results
Lecturer: How to Build a Successful Career in Breast Reconstruction
American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Phoenix, Arizona
January 2018
Judge: 2018 Best Case/Best Save Competition
Panelist: ” Women’s Microsurgery Group. Work, Life Balance or Juggling Act?
Panelist: Beauty and the Breast: Intraoperative and Secondary Considerations to Optimize the Aesthetics of Breast Reconstruction
Panelist: Sense and Sensibility: Sensory Reinnervation of the Breast.
Lecturer: Optimizing Reconstructive Microsurgery with Thromboelastography and Intraoperative Heparin
Cancer Hospital Fudan University, Shanghai, China
October 2017
Lecturer: Refinements in Microsurgical Breast Reconstruction
Peking University People’s Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China
October 2017
Lecturer: Sensory Innervation in Autologous Breast Reconstruction
Breast Reconstruction & Treatment of Axillary Dissection Arm Lymphedema. USA vs. China
Houston Methodist Breast Cancer Center and Houston Methodist Cancer Center, Hotel Zaza, Houston, Texas
October 2017
Lecturer: Breast Reconstruction: State of the Art, Ladies Night Out: Positively Pink for Breast Health
American Society of Plastic Surgeons, The Meeting, Orlando, Florida
October 2017
Panelist: Implant with Autologous Reconstruction
Lecturer & Panelist: Building a better breast through innovative pre-pectoral techniques
Lecturer: Thromboelastography and Intraoperative Anticoagulation during Reconstructive Microsurgery
Texas Society Plastic Surgeons Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, Texas
September 2017
Lecturer: Routine Thromboelastography and Unfractionated Heparin during Free Tissue Transfer
Lecturer: A Systemic Approach for Salvaging Congested DIEP Flaps During Breast Reconstruction
Lecturer: Refining the rib-sparing Approach to the Internal Mammary Vessels in Microsurgical Breast Reconstruction: Keys to Success
Lecturer: Safety of Patients with Factor V Leiden Undergoing Free Tissue Transfer
Combined Meeting of 14th Asian Surgery Symposium and Korean Academic Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Breast Surgery, Seoul, Korea
June 2017
Lecturer: Breast Reconstruction: Shaping the Ideal Breast
9th Congress of World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, Seoul, Korea
June 2017
Lecturer: Aesthetic Refinements in Autologous Breast Reconstruction
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
May 2017
Lecturer: How do we raise the bar in Autologous Breast Reconstruction?
Houston Society of Plastic Surgeons, Houston, Texas
May 2017
Lecturer: Autologous Breast Reconstruction: Shaping the Ideal Breast
American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery Meeting, Waikoloa, Hawaii
January 2017
Panelist: Optimizing Aesthetics of Microsurgical Breast Reconstruction. Immediate Breast Reconstruction: Shaping the Perfect Breast
American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii
January 16, 2017
Panelist: Immediate Breast Reconstruction: Shaping the Perfect Breast
Breast Reconstruction: State of the Art 2016
New York, New York
November 18-19, 2016
Moderator: Taking Autologous Reconstruction to the next level.
Panelist: Innervation of Autologous Breast Reconstruction.
Panelist: Autologous Breast Reconstruction in the Large/Ptotic Breast
Metropolitano Vivian Pellas Joint Medical Symposium with Houston Methodist Hospital, Managua, Nicaragua
April 15-17, 2016
Invited Lecturer: Options in Reconstructive Breast Surgery
2nd International Symposium of Lymphedema Surgery and Breast Reconstruction, University of Tokyo Program, Tokyo, Japan
April 2, 2016
Invited Lecturer: Stacked DIEP Flap with Vascularized Lymph Node Transfer for Breast Reconstruction.
Musculoskeletal Transplantation Foundation Advanced Surgical Forum, Miami, FL & Napa, CA
March 7, 2016; May 6-7, 2016: October 29, 2016
Invited Lecturer, Evolution/Validation of Shaped FlexHD Pliable Acellular Dermis
Southeastern Society of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeons Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia
January 22-25, 2016
Panelist: Autologous Breast Reconstruction, Refinements in Autologous Breast Reconstruction.
Panelist: Advances in Breast Reconstruction, Nipple Sparing Mastectomy with Composite Breast Reconstruction.
Panelist: Expert Faculty Discussion, Problem Cases.
Panelist: Restoring Sensation; Innervation of DIEP Flaps in Breast Reconstruction.
American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona
January 16, 2016
Panelist: Sensory Innervated Flaps, Innervating DIEP and SIEA Flaps for Breast
Reconstruction: Does it make sense?
Panelist, Beyond the DIEP-TUG/PAP/SIEPA, SIEA Flap.