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Diplomat of the American Board of Plastic Surgery, Inc.
Diplomat of the National Board of Medical Examiners.
California Board of Medical Quality Assurance.
Advance Cardiac Life Support Provider; American Heart Association.
American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
American Society of Laser Medicine & Surgery.
The Wound Healing Society.
American College of Surgeons, Candidate.
American Medical Association.
Tarzan Hospital Regional Medical Center, Tarzana, CA.
Encino Hospital, Encino, CA.
Los Robles Hospital Regional Medical Center, Thousand Oaks, CA.
Century City Hospital, Century city, CA.
1995 Mercy Hospital Foundation Research Grant.
1994 Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation Research Grant.
1994 Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Research Grant.
1984 President’s Undergraduate Research Grant.
1984 UCLA Division of Honors Research Grant.
HONORS & AWARDS
1997 American Society of Aesthetic Surgery Presentation Award.
1995 Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation Scholarship Essay Contest Award.
1995 Am. College of Surgeons Presentation Award at the Annual Residents’ Day Meeting.
1987 Western Medical Student Research forum Award.
1986 National Research Fellowship Award.
1984 Art Night Exhibition Award at UCLA.
1983 Cover Design Award for the 2nd ISDC Immunology Congress.
1981 Phi Eta Sigma (Undergraduate Freshman Honors society).
1995 to 97 Co-investigator: Skin tightening effects of the Ultrapulse CO2 Laser.
Preceptor: Brooke R. Seckel, MD,
Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Lahey Clinic Med. Center.
6-93 to 6-94 Principal Investigator: Cellular biology of wound healing- growth factors.Preceptor: J. Reinisch, M.D; T.L. Tuan, Ph.D., M. Nimni, Ph.D., L. Nichter, M.D., Division of Plastic Surgery and Surgical Research, Laboratory of Connective Tissue Biochemistry, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Univ. of Southern California.
6-87 to 6-90 Principal Investigator: Timing of surgical intervention in gallstone pancreatitis.
Preceptor: Tamon Nambison, M.D.,
Department of Surgery, University of California, Davis- East Bay.
6-87 to 8-87 Assistant Investigator: Study of alteration and amplification of protooncogenes in human soft tissue sarcoma and ovarian tumors.
Preceptor: Dennis J. Slamon, M.D.,
Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, UCLA.
6-86 to 8-86 Principal Investigator: Identification and partial characterization of transitional cell carcinoma’s metastatic associated antigens, in the murine model.
Preceptor: John L. Fahey, Ph.D.,
Department of Immunology and Microbiology, School of Medicine, UCLA.
1982 to 86Principal Investigator: Isolation, purification, and characterization of several animal Lectins, and the study of their role against bacterial infection in Lumbricus terrestris.
Preceptor: Edwin L. Cooper, Ph.D.,
Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, UCLA.
Younai S., Seckel B.R., Surgical Anatomy of the Facial Nerve. In Weinzweig J. (ed): Plastic Surgery Secrets. Philadelphia, Hanley & Belfus, 1998.
Seckel B.R., Younai S. K.K. Wang. Skin Tightening Effects of the Ultrapulse CO2 Laser. Plast. Reconstr. Surg, 1998; 102:3, 872-77.
Younai S., Venter G., Vu S., Nichter L.S., Nimni M., Tuan T-L. Role of growth factors in scar contraction: An in vitro analysis. Ann. Plast. Surg. 1996; 36:5, 495-501.
Tuan T-L., Song A., Chang S., Younai S., Nimni M. In Vitro Fibroplasia: Matrix contraction, cell growth and collagen production of fibroblasts cultured in fibrin gels. Exp. Cell Res. 1996; 223: 127-134.
Patel R., Younai S., Narayanan K., Wahba H., Stofman G. Necrotizing Streptococcal Fascitits of the Hand: Case Report. Clin. Infect. Dis. 1996; 22:586-7.
Younai S., Venter G., Vu S., Nimni M., Tuan T-L. Why different scars contract differently. [Abstract] Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons, Boston, MA, Nov. 2, 1995.
Younai S., Nichter L.S., Wellisz T., Reinisch J., Nimni M., Tuan T-L. Modulation of collagen synthesis by transforming growth factor-b in keloid and hypertrophic scar fibroblasts. Year Book of Plast. Recons. Aesth. Surg., 1996; 384-85.
Younai S., Stofman G., Nimni M., Tuan T-L. Role of growth factors in the contraction of burn scar fibroblasts. [Abstract] Southwestern Pennsylvania chapter, American College of Surgeon Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 9, 1994.
Younai S., Nimni M., Tuan T-L, Isolation and localization of autocrine TGF-b by keloid and hypertrophic scar fibroblasts. J. Lab Invest. 1996, (Submitted).
Younai S., Nichter L.S., Wellisz T., Reinisch J., Nimni M., Tuan T-L. Modulation of collagen synthesis by transforming growth factor-b in keloid and hypertrophic scar fibroblasts. Ann Plast Surg. 1994, 33:148-154.
Younai S., Tuan T-L, Sun D., Nichter L.S., Nimni M., Keloid fibroblasts exhibit an altered interaction with fibrin clot. [Abstract] Southern California Chapter, American College of Surgeons meeting, Jan. 23 1994.
Younai S., Wellisz T., Reinisch J., Nimni M., Tuan T-L. How keloids and hypertrophic scars differ at the molecular level? [Abstract] California Society of Plastic Surgeons Inc., Feb. 1994.
Younai S., Downey S., Wellisz T., Reinisch J., Nimni M., Tuan T-L. Differential response to TGF-b in collagen synthesis by keloid and hypertrophic scar fibroblasts. [Abstract], 4th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Wound Healing Society, San Francisco, CA, May 18- 20, 1994.
Younai S., Mirhashemi R., Fahey J.L., Liu B.C.S., Detection of cross-reacting metastases associated antigens in Ha-ras transfected murine cells and human tumor. Clinical Research. 1986, 35:169.
Stein E.A., Younai S., Cooper E.L., Hemagglutinins and bacterial agglutinins of earthworms. Developmental and Comparative Immunology: Progress in Clinical and Biological Research. (E.L. Cooper, C. Langlet, and J. Bierne, Eds.), Alan Liss, New York, 1986, 233:79-89.
Stein E.A., Younai S., Cooper E.L., Bacterial agglutinins of the earthworm. 3rd International Congress of Developmental and Comparative Immunology. (E.L. Cooper, C. Langlet, and J. Bierne, Eds.), Alan Liss, New York, 1986, 10:133.
Younai S., Stein E.A., Cooper E.L. Bacterial agglutinins by earthworm Lectins. UCLA Under- graduate Scientific Journal. 1985, 1:41-56.
Stein E.A., Younai S., Cooper E.L., Bacterial agglutination by earthworm coelomic fluid. Fed. Proc. 1985, 44:1095.