Maria Zofia Siemionow is a Polish transplant surgeon and scientist. She is known for leading a team of eight surgeons through the first near-total face transplant performed in the United States at the Cleveland Clinic in 2008.
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Arne NordheimAlso won Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Volodymyr KhandohiyAlso won Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Bogdan AurescuAlso won Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Cyryl KlimowiczAlso won Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Benoît PugaAlso won Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Bronislaw BernackiAlso won Commander of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of PolandAbout this person
Maria Zofia Siemionow is a Polish transplant surgeon and scientist. She is known for leading a team of eight surgeons through the first near-total face transplant performed in the United States at the Cleveland Clinic in 2008. The patient, Connie Culp, a 45-year-old woman from a small town in Ohio, was exceedingly disfigured by a close range shotgun blast in 2004. The procedure took 22 hours.
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Doctors
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Doctor
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Born 1950 · age 76
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