Steven Moran, MD

Dr. Moran is a member of the Corporation’s Scientific Advisory Board. He is currently a Professor of Surgery and Orthopedic Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.  He is also a staff surgeon at the Shrine Hospital for Sick Children in Minneapolis, Minnesota and the present Chair of the Division of Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery and the Surgical Director of hand transplantation at Mayo Clinic’s Essam and Dalal Obaid Center for Reconstructive Transplant Surgery.  Dr. Moran’s practice focuses on disorders of the upper extremity, as well as microsurgical reconstruction and the treatment of complex wounds.

Dr. Moran attended Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts for his undergraduate degree.  He then obtained his medical degree from the University of Rochester.  He remained at the University of Rochester where he trained in an integrated plastic surgery program under the direction of Dr. Seymour Schwartz and Dr. Joseph Serletti.   Dr. Moran finished his training at the Mayo Clinic where he completed a one-year hand and microsurgical fellowship under the direction of Dr. Allen Bishop.

Dr. Moran has published over 110 peer-reviewed papers, over 25 book chapters, and has edited one textbook.  He is currently an advisory council representative for The American Board of Plastic Surgery, an associate editor of Hand Journal and Clinics Orthopedic Surgery Journal.  He was previously an associate editor for the Journal of Hand Surgery and the Year Book of Hand and Upper Limb Surgery.  Dr. Moran is a member of ten professional societies, is a founding member of the American Society for Reconstructive Transplantation, and was previously the Director for Research for the American Association for Hand Surgery.  He has been a co-investigator on multiple National Institute of Health grants devoted to the study of tissue engineering, tendon healing, and carpal tunnel syndrome.  Dr. Moran was named the 2008 - 2009 Steerling Bunnell traveling fellow by the American Society of Surgery of the Hand.